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Center for Popular Democracy Inc
The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+16 grants · $6.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE THE ROAD STATES DBA MAKE THE ROAD NV | $667,000 |
| ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT | $578,000 |
| CPD ACTION CANVASS NETWORK LLC | $547,746 |
| CENTER FOR LAW AND HUMAN VALUE DBA THE ACTION LAB | $478,928 |
| MAKE THE ROAD STATES DBA MAKE THE ROAD PA | $460,000 |
| ACTION INSTITUTE NORTH CAROLINA | $447,000 |
| MAKE THE ROAD STATES DBA MAKE THE ROAD NJ | $417,200 |
| CASA DE MARYLAND | $390,000 |
| ONEPA ACTIVIST UNITED | $380,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $330,000 |
| STEP UP LOUISIANA ORGANIZING FUND | $323,200 |
| TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND | $302,700 |
| WORKING WASHINGTON | $300,000 |
| OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE | $270,000 |
| NEW YORK COMMUNITIES FOR CHANGE INC | $260,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $11.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Center for Popular Democracy Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 23% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $899k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MTMake The Road States Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +136%
CASA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +194%- MTMake the Road New York8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +35%
Funded once
- PRPuerto Rico Conservation Trust Fundone grant, 2018 · $775k · revenue -33%
- NONEIGHBORHOODS ORGANIZING FOR CHANGEone grant, 2017 · $260k
- PMPROYECTO MATRIA INCone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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,…
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.
The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
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…
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.
Legal, immigration and community organizing
Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
We are texas lawyers for texas communities, boldly serving the movement for equality and justice in and out of the courts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pueblo Critico Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
146 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 146 of the 174 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Make The Road States Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Working Washington ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds New York Communities For Change Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCE Institute ↗
- Who funds ACTION INSTITUTE NC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RISING INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds ACTION NC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds TALLER SALUD INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds United for Respect Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Puerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund ↗
- Who funds New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Alaskans Take A Stand ↗
- Who funds RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Law and Human Values Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OLE EDUCATION FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Center · Hispanic Federation Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Working Families Organization Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Windward Fund · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Center for Popular Democracy Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northwest Health Foundation Fund Ii — 81% of income from government
- National Black Justice Coalition Inc — 17% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.