· Public charity
Commonwealth Alliance Action Fund
To sustain lasting and impactful nonprofit and advocacy infrastructure and networks that support a thriving, informed, and active multi-racial democracy in kentucky.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $575k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMONWEALTH ALLIANCE VOTER ENGAGEMENT | $575,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTOHOOD ALLIANCE ADVOCATES - SERVING AK HI ID IN KY AND WA | $45,000 |
| SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| FAIRNESS CAMPAIGN | $25,000 |
| KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE | $25,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $20,000 |
| HOOD TO THE HOLLER | $20,000 |
| PRESERVE PROTECT DEFEND | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of your 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.
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.
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.
To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.
Our purpose is to educate, advocate and connect with our members on issues that are important to the economic development in the commonwealth of kentucky.
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Provide services to governmental agencies.
To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…
The mission of the organization is to protect pension plans for public employees in kentucky to ensure that these plans provide a secure retirement. the coalition works to educate legistlators, public officials, and the public on the facts…
To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, and government programs to protect against judicial gerrymandering and other legislative barriers to fair courts, and to conduct research about and publicize the positions of elected…
To maintain a proper discipline of the members of the bar in accordance with the rules set forth by the kentucky supreme court and with the principles of the legal profession as a public calling, to initiate and supervise, with the…
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
To engage in the promotion of social welfare by developing and advocating for legislation, regulations, government programs and other policies that further the interests of aprns who are licensed to practice in kentucky, and to provide…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Alliance Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Fairness Campaign Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 COMMONWEALTH ALLIANCE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH ALLIANCE VOTER ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE ADVOCATES SERVING AK HI ID IN KY AND WA ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE PROTECT AND DEFEND ↗
- Who funds SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds HOOD TO HOLLER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL 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.
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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 Commonwealth Alliance Action 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.
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.
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