How much did CIVIC INVOLVEMENT FUND grant in FY2023?

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT FUND reported 14 grants totaling $24,475,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is CIVIC INVOLVEMENT FUND based?

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT FUND is based in NY.

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT FUND

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT FUND

$24M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$5.0M

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$250k+13 grants · $24M

$1,500,000

Median grant

States reached

$28k

Total assets

Largest grants

FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION$5,000,000
FAIR DEMOCRACY (FORWARD MAJORITY)$4,000,000
FUTURE NOW ACTION$3,850,000
CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION$2,000,000
FAMILY FRIENDLY ACTION FUND$1,500,000
BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION$1,500,000
AMERICA VOTES$1,500,000
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND$1,000,000
EVERY ELIGIBLE AMERICAN$1,000,000
EMERGING AMERICAN MAJORITIES$1,000,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC$975,000
MAJORITY FORWARD$500,000
AMERICA WORKS USA$500,000
MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND$150,000

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Democracy Works Inc

Improving civic participation by simplifying and modernizing the voting process for voters and election administrators.

Civil Rights

Democracy for America Advocacy Fund

Democracy for America Advocacy Fund (DFA-AF) is a 501(c)(4) organization that advocates for fair, just, inclusive, and equitable public policies that benefit all, not just a few. DFA-AF was launched to take on structural democracy reform…

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Democracy Forward Foundation

Crime & Legal

Voteamerica

Voteamerica uses technology to simplify political engagement and increase voter turnout.

Civil Rights

One for Democracy Action Fund

To transform the way individual and instituional donors approach democracy.

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Advance American Democracy Inc

To protect democracy by advocating for policies to strenghten democracy, educating the public about threats to our democracy, and highlighting the unpopularity of federal policies that places money and power over the rights and freedom of…

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All Americans Vote

All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!

Civil Rights

Focus for Democracy Action

Focus for democracy action is dedicated to empowering donors to make the most impactful contributions possible to strengthen democracy.

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Fair Fight Action Inc

Fair fight action promotes fair elections in georgia and around the country, encourages voter participation in elections, educates voters about elections and their voting rights, and advocates for progressive issues.

Education

Network for Civic Action

Network for civic action advocates for the protection of democracy and encourages civic engagement. it evaluates programs and educates donors about how their donations can best serve those goals.

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Fair Districts Fund

To prevent and oppose the gerrymandering of state legislative districts through education, research, and litigation aimed at challenging racial gerrymandering

Civil Rights

Center for National Independence in

Vote smart is a nonpartisan research group that collects, keeps and makes available the factual records on public officials and issues.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State Democracy Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Black Progressive Action Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

14/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Public Benefit$9,850,000Civil Rights$9,625,000Other$2,500,000Community Improvement$1,500,000Environment$1,000,000

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.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Hopewell Fund · North Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Wellness Advocacy Fund · Tides Advocacy · Fund for a Better Future Inc · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund · National Education Association of The · Tides Foundation

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 organisation CIVIC INVOLVEMENT FUND 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

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 32.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 030554750 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 86% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Civic Involvement Fund?

Find your warmest path to Civic Involvement Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT FUND

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Civic Involvement Fund?

More from the funding graph

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT FUND

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Civic Involvement Fund?

More from the funding graph