How much does Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy give?

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy reported 2 grants totaling $29,144,865 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (61%), Crime & Legal (30%), Housing & Shelter (4%).

Who are Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fwdus Inc ($200M), The Just Trust for Action ($84M), NPH Action Fund ($12M).

Does Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Open Society Action Fund Inc, New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund.

Where is Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy based?

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Public charity

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy

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

$29M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 2
Grants FY2024: 2
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $26,250,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $26,250,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 41; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $33M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	2	$29M	0%
FY2023	2	$60M	0%
FY2022	4	$36M	0%
FY2021	22	$76M	36%
FY2020	33	$39M	55%
FY2019	41	$26M	78%
FY2018	15	$45M	87%
FY2017	6	$44M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fwdus Inc	$199,910,075	8	98%
The Just Trust for Action	$83,650,000	4	4%
NPH Action Fund	$11,566,200	4	98%
Schools and Communities First	$10,788,510	3	17%
Accountable Justice Action Fund	$10,000,000	1	n/a
Tides Advocacy	$8,150,000	4	1%
California YIMBY	$3,345,412	4	58%
Ohio Safe and Healthy Communities Campaign	$3,000,000	1	n/a
Californians Against the Prison Spending Scam	$2,250,000	1	29%
Action for Safety and Justice	$1,500,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fwdus Inc	$199,910,075	8	98%
The Just Trust for Action	$83,650,000	4	4%
NPH Action Fund	$11,566,200	4	98%
Schools and Communities First	$10,788,510	3	17%
Accountable Justice Action Fund	$10,000,000	1	n/a
Tides Advocacy	$8,150,000	4	1%
California YIMBY	$3,345,412	4	58%
Ohio Safe and Healthy Communities Campaign	$3,000,000	1	n/a
Californians Against the Prison Spending Scam	$2,250,000	1	29%
Action for Safety and Justice	$1,500,000	1	n/a
Drug Policy Action	$1,320,372	3	33%
Silicon Valley Rising Action	$1,280,000	3	41%
Rise Up Inc	$1,150,000	2	39%
Techequity Action	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action	$1,000,000	3	52%
PICO California Action Fund	$850,000	1	88%
Social Good Advocacy Fund	$820,000	3	27%
Justleadershipusa Inc	$799,999	2	0%
Forward Justice	$759,713	1	14%
Million Voters Project Action Fund for Schools and Communities First	$709,047	2	36%
The Primary School Lab	$700,000	1	n/a
Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition	$665,000	3	68%
Sv Home Action Fund	$550,000	2	75%
More Treatment for a Better Oregon Yes on 110	$500,000	1	13%
Purpose Dignity Action	$466,000	1	2%
Prison Fellowship Ministries	$440,000	3	0%
North Carolina Justice Center	$415,625	2	4%
Faith in Action Fund	$375,000	1	n/a
American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky Inc	$365,000	2	52%
Yimby Action	$365,000	3	25%
Safety and Justice Oregon	$360,000	1	24%
Vital Strategies Inc	$350,000	2	0%
Kentucky Chamber Advocacy Committee Inc	$330,000	2	25%
Affordable Housing Now See Schedule O for Full Name	$300,000	1	5%
Safe & Just Michigan	$293,562	1	21%
Center for American Progress Action Fund	$251,851	2	1%
Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform Action Inc	$250,000	1	n/a
Forward Justice Action Network	$250,000	1	29%
Operation Restoration	$250,000	1	n/a
Affordable Homes for San Franciscans Now	$200,000	1	n/a
Casa Inc	$200,000	1	1%
Opportunity 2 Restore	$180,000	1	100%
The Institute for Higher Education Policy	$178,910	2	7%
Community Service Society of New York	$178,796	1	1%
American Conservative Union Inc	$178,250	1	n/a
Niskanen Center for Public Policy	$175,000	1	54%
Urban Habitat Program	$150,000	1	5%
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation	$150,000	1	4%
National Immigration Forum Action Fund	$150,000	1	12%
American Business Immigration Coalition Action	$150,000	1	75%
Conservatives For Criminal Justice Reform	$147,000	1	48%
Community Resources for Justice Inc	$131,000	1	0%
Bipartisan Policy Center Action Inc	$125,000	1	3%
The Education Trust Inc	$125,000	2	0%
America's Voice	$125,000	1	8%
The College and Community Fellowship Inc	$109,896	2	3%
R Street Institute	$108,000	1	1%
San Francisco Communities Against Displacement in Support of Prop A	$100,000	1	24%
Yes on 16 Opportunity for All Coalition	$100,000	1	n/a
County of Alameda Ca	$100,000	1	n/a
San Mateans for Affordable Housing	$100,000	1	86%
Utah Chamber	$100,000	1	2%
Faster Bay Area	$100,000	1	8%
Unite Oregon Action	$100,000	1	30%
Yes on Measure V	$100,000	1	n/a
Casa in Action Inc	$100,000	1	8%
Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana	$75,000	1	10%
Abundant Housing LA	$75,000	2	9%
Association of State Correctional A	$62,000	1	3%
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Vera Institute of Justice Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Neighbors for an Affordable San Jose	$49,999	1	n/a
Colorado Center on Law and Policy	$47,072	1	3%
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc	$45,000	1	1%
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc	$37,500	1	2%
Congregation Organized for a New Ct	$30,000	1	8%
Sutherland Institute	$28,900	1	1%

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 22 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 63.

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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.

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

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.

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About Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy

How much does Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy give?: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy reported 2 grants totaling $29,144,865 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (61%), Crime & Legal (30%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
Who are Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fwdus Inc ($200M), The Just Trust for Action ($84M), NPH Action Fund ($12M).
Does Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Open Society Action Fund Inc, New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Where is Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy based?: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy is based in CA.