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Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc

The center for popular democracy action (cpda) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world.

$687k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$537k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.1MCivil Rights$2.7MCommunity Improvement$307kHealth$199kEmployment$188kHuman Services$162kEducation$161kHousing & Shelter$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $537k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POPULAR DEMOCRACY PAC$537,078
ONE PENNSYLVANIA INC$50,000
MAKE THE ROAD ACTION$50,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $608k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $45k → 11%ACCE ACTION: $30k → 14%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ACTION: $5k → 10%CASA IN ACTION: $68k → 8%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $20k → 11%ACCE ACTION: $25k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $62k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $10k → 11%ACCE ACTION: $10k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $50k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD PENNSYLVANIA (MTR STATES): $70k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD ACTION IN NEVADA: $52k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD ACTION IN CONNECTICUT: $31k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD ACTION IN PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $40k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $30k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $20k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $20k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $10k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
WV
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 43%.

Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 21% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 23 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
39

Total granted

$4.5M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
-22%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $920k · revenue +10%
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $635k · revenue +75%
  • NY
    New York Communities For Change Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $350k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CL
    CANVASS LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $815k
  • VA
    VAMOS4PR ACTION PAC
    one grant, 2018 · $155k
  • PH
    PENNSYLVANIA HARM REDUCTION COALITION C/O CHESHIRE LAW GROUP
    one grant, 2020 · $141k · revenue -100% · 65% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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2
Pennsylvania United

PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create

Civil Rights
3
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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4
Tenants and Workers United

Tenants and workers united is a democratically controlled, grassroots organization committed to winning social and economic justice for all people in northern virginia-latinos, african americans, tenants, immigrants, workers, youth and low…

Arts & Culture
5
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
6
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
7
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
8
United Power for Action and Justice Inc

Advocacy for social justice, common good, and housing opportunity.

Community Improvement
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
11
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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12
Our Revolution

Organizing a progressive political movement powerful enough to make sure our government stands on the side of working people, not the wealthy few.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Womens March Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/54
Grantees still filing
28/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANVASS LLC: $815,479 · OtherCANVASS LLCTIDES ADVOCACY: $634,592 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYPOPULAR DEMOCRACY PAC: $537,078 · OtherPOPULAR DEMOCRACY PACVAMOS - CONCERTACION CIUDADANA: $451,250 · OtherVAMOS - CONCERTACION CIUDADANAVAMOS4PR ACTION PAC: $155,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA HARM REDUCTION COALITION C/O CHESHIRE LAW GROUP: $141,140 · Other+28 more: $1,021,093 · Other+28 moreNew York Communities For Change Inc: $350,000 · Civil RightsNew York Communiti…MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $238,500 · Civil RightsMAKE THE ROAD ACTI…WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $237,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES O…ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA: $145,000 · Civil RightsORGANIZE PENNSYLVA…FLORIDA RISING INC: $90,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INC+6 more: $86,000 · Civil Rights+6 moreCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $920,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPU…PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC: $52,500 · Public BenefitPUBLIC ACCOUNTA…+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitCASA IN ACTION INC: $179,500 · Human ServicesCASA IN A…Make The Road States Inc: $163,000 · Human ServicesMake The …CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesCHURCHES …LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $75,000 · Human ServicesLIVING UN…Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action: $65,000 · Human ServicesAlliance …+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $168,500 · Community ImprovementHOOSIER ACTION INC: $70,000 · Community ImprovementNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $40,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNITED INC: $25,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementOrganization United for Respect: $118,000 · EmploymentWEST VIRGINIA HEALTHY KIDS AND FAMILIES COALITION: $33,750 · HealthVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $15,000 · Health
Other$3,755,632Civil Rights$1,146,500Public Benefit$982,500Human Services$607,500Community Improvement$328,500Employment$118,000Health$48,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $920,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $634,592 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc: $350,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $238,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $237,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCASA IN ACTION INC: $179,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $168,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMake The Road States Inc: $163,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA: $145,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HARM REDUCTION COALITION C/O CHESHIRE LAW GROUP: $141,140 over 1y, 65% of budgetCASA INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC: $120,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetOrganization United for Respect: $118,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOOSIER ACTION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action: $65,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC: $52,500 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetACTION NC: $46,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBUSINESS ACTION FUND: $37,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCOLORADO AFL-CIO: $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMake the Road New York: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA HEALTHY KIDS AND FAMILIES COALITION: $33,750 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAction Now: $30,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetA STRONG ECONOMY FOR ALL COALITION: $25,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetAction Now Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetRISE UP WV: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited for Respect: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetStep Up for Action: $17,193 over 1y, 10% of budgetStand Up Alaska: $15,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetF&L ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWorking Washington: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ACTION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Center for Popular De…All Hands on Deck Net…Sixteen Thirty FundWorking Families Orga…America VotesOpen Society Action F…Tides AdvocacyCenter for Community …Tides FoundationWay to Win Action Fun…Women Donors Network …State Engagement Fund
Center for Popular Democracy IncNY63.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Center for Popular Democracy Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Working Families Organization Inc · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Center for Community Change Action · Tides Foundation · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · State Engagement Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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