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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy

To promote and bring about advances in areas of public policy.

$29M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$26M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$222MCrime & Legal$108MHousing & Shelter$16MPublic Benefit$11MHuman Services$2.9MCommunity Improvement$2.2MEducation$1.3MInternational$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$26,250,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JUST TRUST FOR ACTION$26,250,000
FWDUS INC$2,894,865
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $13.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NPH ACTION FUND: $8.0M → 10%NPH Action Fund: $1.7M → 10%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $178k → 8%CASA IN ACTION INC: $100k → 11%NPH ACTION FUND: $550k → 10%NPH Action Fund: $450k → 10%NPH ACTION FUND: $450k → 10%NPH ACTION FUND: $325k → 10%FORWARD JUSTICE ACTION NETWORK: $250k → 11%NPH Action Fund: $100k → 10%AMERICA IS BETTER: $150k → 14%ALLIANCE OF CALIFORNIANS FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: $400k → 14%Alliance of CA for Comm Empowerment Action: $200k → 14%ALLIANCE OF CALIFORNIANS FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: $200k → 14%ALLIANCE OF CALIFORNIANS FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ACTION: $100k → 14%ALLIANCE OF CALIFORNIANS FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ACTION: $100k → 14%Community Service Society of New York: $179k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
OK
LA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$329M · 26 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
51

Total granted

$329M
$27M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
-5%

Still filing today

92%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Crime & LegalCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • FI
    FWDUS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200M · revenue +165% · 98% of their budget
  • NA
    NPH Action Fund
    4× · 2019–2022 · $12M · revenue +258% · 98% of their budget
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $8.2M · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • AJ
    ACCOUNTABLE JUSTICE ACTION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10M · revenue ×11
  • OS
    OHIO SAFE AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2018 · $3.0M
  • CA
    Californians Against the Prison Spending Scam
    one grant, 2020 · $2.3M · 29% of their budget

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Fund for Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
5
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
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
Alliance for Justice Action Campaign

The alliance for justice action campaign (afjac) promotes a national conversation about the importance of the courts with a goal of advancing core constitutional values, preserving human rights, securing unfettered access to the judicial…

Civil Rights
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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9
First Amendment Coalition

The first amendment coalition protects and promotes a free press, freedom of expression and the people's right to know. continued on schedule o.

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10
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
11
Consumer Attorneys of California

To advance the science of jurisprudence; to establish a closer relationship of the members with the state bar association of california; to promote the administration of justice and the uniformity of legislation and judicial decisions; to…

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12
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accountable Justice Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is More Treatment for a Better Oregon Yes on 110. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Immigrant Worker SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%26%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr15%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%24%<5yr14%68%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr18%3%20–35yr16%0%35–55yr15%0%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/78
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,923

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.

04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 78 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.

22
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/72
Grantees still filing
35/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FWDUS INC — $199,910,075 · Civil RightsFWDUS INCSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST — $10,788,510 · Civil Rights+8 more — $4,584,419 · Civil RightsTHE JUST TRUST FOR ACTION — $83,650,000 · Crime & LegalTHE JUST TRUST FOR ACTIONACCOUNTABLE JUSTICE ACTION FUND — $10,000,000 · Crime & LegalACCOUNTABLE JUSTICE ACTION FUN…+10 more — $2,965,784 · Crime & LegalTIDES ADVOCACY — $8,150,000 · OtherOHIO SAFE AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES CAMPAIGN — $3,000,000 · OtherCalifornians Against the Prison Spending Scam — $2,250,000 · OtherACTION FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE — $1,500,000 · OtherSilicon Valley Rising Action — $1,280,000 · OtherSocial Good Advocacy Fund — $820,000 · Other+36 more — $6,868,868 · OtherNPH Action Fund — $11,566,200 · Human ServicesAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action — $1,000,000 · Human Services+6 more — $1,344,421 · Human ServicesSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $7,442,000 · EnvironmentCalifornia YIMBY — $3,345,412 · Housing & ShelterBay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition — $665,000 · Housing & ShelterSV HOME ACTION FUND — $550,000 · Housing & ShelterRISE UP INC — $1,150,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Philanthropy
Civil Rights$215,283,004Crime & Legal$96,615,784Other$23,868,868Human Services$13,910,621Environment$7,442,000Housing & Shelter$4,560,412Philanthropy$1,300,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFWDUS INC — $199,910,075 over 8y, 98% of budgetTHE JUST TRUST FOR ACTION — $83,650,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetNPH Action Fund — $11,566,200 over 4y, 98% of budgetSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST — $10,788,510 over 3y, 17% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $8,150,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $7,442,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetCalifornia YIMBY — $3,345,412 over 4y, 58% of budgetCalifornians Against the Prison Spending Scam — $2,250,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetDRUG POLICY ACTION — $1,320,372 over 3y, 33% of budgetSilicon Valley Rising Action — $1,280,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetRISE UP INC — $1,150,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action — $1,000,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetPICO California Action Fund — $850,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetSocial Good Advocacy Fund — $820,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetJUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC — $799,999 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFORWARD JUSTICE — $759,713 over 1y, 14% of budgetMILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST — $709,047 over 2y, 36% of budgetBay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition — $665,000 over 3y, 68% of budgetSV HOME ACTION FUND — $550,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetMore Treatment for a Better Oregon Yes on 110 — $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPURPOSE DIGNITY ACTION — $466,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES — $440,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $415,625 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY INC — $365,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetYIMBY ACTION — $365,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetSAFETY AND JUSTICE OREGON — $360,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetVITAL STRATEGIES INC — $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKentucky Chamber Advocacy Committee Inc — $330,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetAffordable Housing Now See Schedule O for Full Name — $300,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN — $293,562 over 1y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $251,851 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFORWARD JUSTICE ACTION NETWORK — $250,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetCASA INC — $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY 2 RESTORE — $180,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY — $178,910 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $178,796 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $175,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetLOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM ACTION FUND — $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAmerican Business Immigration Coalition Action — $150,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetUrban Habitat Program — $150,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetConservatives For Criminal Justice Reform — $147,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC — $131,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC — $125,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICA'S VOICE — $125,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc — $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC — $109,896 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE — $108,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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 Society Action F…New Venture FundSixteen Thirty FundFwdus IncTides AdvocacyThe Heising-Simons Ac…Silicon Valley Commun…The Just Trust for Ac…Clean Slate Initiativ…Open Philanthropy Act…The Just Trust for Ed…NEO Philanthropy Acti…
Open Society Action Fund IncNY32.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Open Society Action Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Fwdus Inc · Tides Advocacy · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Just Trust for Action · Clean Slate Initiative Inc · Open Philanthropy Action Fund · The Just Trust for Education · NEO Philanthropy Action 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 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • Community Resources for Justice Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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