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Civic Nation

Civic Nation uses organizing, engagement, and public awareness to address some of the nation's most pressing challenges.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$123k
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.

Health$3.2MPublic Benefit$2.3MCivil Rights$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.7MEducation$534kHuman Services$520kReligion$442kPhilanthropy$292kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 93 grants below total $1,682,686, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,763,559 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,080,873 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $217k
  • $10k–50k54 grants · $818k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $648k
$12,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
End Rape On Campus$123,187
Iota Phi Theta Foundation Inc$67,500
Student Debt Crisis Center$62,000
Unifour One$60,000
The Sixth Episcopal District AME Church$60,000
Rise Education Fund Marypatricia Hector$58,500
Just Harvest Education Fund$58,333
Asian Community Development Council$58,333
The Uma Center Inc$50,000
HOLA Ohio$50,000
Thredz$40,000
BlackPush Inc$40,000
Soul Food CDC Unity in the Community$35,000
Welcome America Inc$35,000
North Carolina Black Alliance$27,500
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 (FY17–24, $551k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Campbell Community Center (Alexis L Washington): $13k → 10%Make the Road PA: $8k → 20%The Uma Center Inc: $40k → 15%Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese: $40k → 14%Warriors on wheels of Metropolitan Detroit: $10k → 15%Includus Fund (Grita Canta Vota): $13k → 6%YMCA: $50k → 16%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $8k → 7%End Rape On Campus: $123k → 14%Student Organizing Inc: $31k → 16%National Hook Up Black Women Inc Milwaukee: $8k → 17%Beta Mu Lambda Education Foundation: $13k → 10%PIRG: $17k → 16%Deltas of Charlotte Incorporated (Deltas of Charlotte Foundation): $10k → 10%Barred Business Foundation (Bridgette Simpson): $13k → 13%END RAPE ON CAMPUS: $25k → 14%Promise Arizona: $10k → 11%Promise Arizona: $80k → 11%PROMISE ARIZONA: $20k → 11%Instituto Lab: $8k → 11%Kiths Integrated & Targeted Human Services: $15k → 22%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 38 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
64

Total granted

$5.3M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+21%

Still filing today

84%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CIVIC TN
    3× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue +52% · 50% of their budget
  • AC
    ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $308k · revenue +131%
  • PC
    POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $195k · revenue +760%

Funded once

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +26%
  • SV
    STATE VOICESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $352k · revenue +94%
  • BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2018 · $315k · revenue -23%
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.

1
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote

It is the mission of APIAVote to encourage and promote civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public processes at the national, state, and local levels. APIAVote also aims to educate and inform Asian…

Civil Rights
2
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

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3
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
4
Color of Changeorg Education Fund

Color of change.org education fund exists to empower our members - black americans and our allies to make decision makers more responsive to the concerns of black americans and to bring about positive social change for everyone.

Civil Rights
5
Civica Initiatives

Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions

Community Improvement
6
Jolt Initiative

Jolt Initiative is a non-profit organization that increases the civic participation of Latinos in Texas to build a stronger democracy and ensure that everyone's voice is heard.

Civil Rights
7
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
8
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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9
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice

We demand health, dignity, and justice for our communities. We center and amplify Latine voices as we work to transform oppressive systems and narratives and to reclaim control over our bodies and lives. We build power by organizing our…

Health
10
Latino Political Network
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11
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights
12
Equality Alliance of San Diego

Alliance is a community organization working to build a more inclusive democracy so that all people can achieve their full potential in an environment of harmony, safety, equality, and justice. Alliance develops leaders, builds coalitions,…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Empowerment Programs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Deltas of Charlotte Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

136 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. 136 of the 186 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/136
Grantees still filing
61/136
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIVIC TN: $599,820 · Civil RightsCIVIC TNFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $358,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INCSTATE VOICES: $352,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICESMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $275,000 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN ACCIONONE ARIZONA: $240,000 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONAYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $198,000 · Civil RightsYOUNG INVINCIBLESPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE: $195,400 · Civil RightsPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND…NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $135,000 · Civil RightsVirginia Civic Engagement Table: $131,500 · Civil RightsInternational Mayan League: $125,000 · Civil RightsJUST HARVEST EDUCATION FUND: $108,333 · Civil Rights+15 more: $528,833 · Civil Rights+15 moreBorder Network for Human Rights: $200,000 · OtherBorder Network for Human Righ…Greater Birmingham Ministries: $190,000 · OtherGreater Birmingham MinistriesURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $153,500 · OtherMILE 22 ASSOCIATES: $137,000 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA VOICES FOR PEACE: $126,000 · OtherFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC: $170,000 · OtherFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INCNONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES OF UTAH: $175,000 · OtherNONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES OF U…SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY: $109,000 · Other+78 more: $1,868,000 · Other+78 moreASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $308,333 · Community ImprovementASIAN COMMUNITY DEV…LA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO: $300,000 · Community ImprovementLA UNION DEL PUEBLO…PROYECTO VIDA DIGNA: $200,000 · Community ImprovementPROYECTO VIDA DIGNAUNIFOUR ONE INC: $160,500 · Community ImprovementUNIFOUR ONE INCHOLA OHIO: $150,000 · Community ImprovementHOLA OHIOTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZING PR…Ohio Womens Alliance: $140,933 · Community ImprovementOhio Womens Allianc…DETROIT CHANGE INITIATIVE: $121,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT CHANGE INIT…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $120,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNIT…GENTE DE VENEZUELA: $110,000 · Community ImprovementGENTE DE VENEZUELACESAR CHAVEZ MEMORIAL ALLIANCE OF SOUTH TEXAS: $80,000 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $70,000 · Community Improvement+6 more: $126,640 · Community Improvement+6 moreBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $315,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT…NC COUNTS COALITION: $305,000 · EducationNC COUNTS…Southern Echo Inc: $135,000 · EducationSouthern …Trustees of Tufts College: $32,500 · Education+13 more: $165,000 · Education+13 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $500,000 · HealthPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $100,000 · HealthBirmingham AIDS Outreach Inc: $80,000 · HealthASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM: $50,000 · HealthDoctors for America: $50,000 · HealthINITIUM CARES: $50,000 · Health+3 more: $49,500 · HealthTIDES CENTER: $222,000 · Human ServicesEND RAPE ON CAMPUS: $148,187 · Human ServicesPROMISE ARIZONA: $110,000 · Human ServicesThe Uma Center Inc: $90,000 · Human ServicesKENTUCKY YMCA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSTUDENT ORGANIZING INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesArkansas Coalition of Marshallese I: $40,000 · Human Services+11 more: $115,000 · Human ServicesRISE EDUCATION FUND: $177,700 · PhilanthropyMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $175,000 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyMET CARES FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyIota Phi Theta Foundation Inc: $67,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropySERVE YOUR CITY: $50,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $65,500 · Philanthropy
Civil Rights$3,246,886Other$3,128,500Community Improvement$2,037,406Education$952,500Health$879,500Human Services$823,187Philanthropy$820,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCIVIC TN: $599,820 over 3y, 50% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $358,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $352,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $315,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $308,333 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetNC COUNTS COALITION: $305,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetLA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO: $300,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $275,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $240,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $222,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBorder Network for Human Rights: $200,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPROYECTO VIDA DIGNA: $200,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $198,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE: $195,400 over 2y, 16% of budgetGreater Birmingham Ministries: $190,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND: $177,700 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $175,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetNONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES OF UTAH: $175,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC: $170,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNIFOUR ONE INC: $160,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $153,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOLA OHIO: $150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEND RAPE ON CAMPUS: $148,187 over 2y, 81% of budgetOhio Womens Alliance: $140,933 over 1y, 21% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Civic Engagement Table: $131,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA VOICES FOR PEACE: $126,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetInternational Mayan League: $125,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetDETROIT CHANGE INITIATIVE: $121,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $120,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGENTE DE VENEZUELA: $110,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetPROMISE ARIZONA: $110,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetSOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY: $109,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJUST HARVEST EDUCATION FUND: $108,333 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE: $105,333 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Uma Center Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetSTUDENT DEBT CRISIS CENTER: $87,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBirmingham AIDS Outreach Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCESAR CHAVEZ MEMORIAL ALLIANCE OF SOUTH TEXAS: $80,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC: $80,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundVoter Registration Pr…Tides FoundationBvm Capacity Building…Amalgamated Charitabl…Way to RiseWindward FundState VoicesThe Ford FoundationClean and Prosperous …Wellspring Philanthro…
NEO Philanthropy IncNY58.7× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Voter Registration Project · Tides Foundation · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Way to Rise · Windward Fund · State Voices · The Ford Foundation · Clean and Prosperous America · Wellspring Philanthropic 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Civic Nation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Civic Nation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Campus Compact: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
21report 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 186 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home