· Public charity
Communities United Action Fund
To educate and support diverse communities as to the importance of the democratic process and increase engagement.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOMOS VOTANTES | $100,000 |
| BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION | $100,000 |
| RISE UNITED NETWORK INC | $75,000 |
| MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC | $25,000 |
| POWER RISING ACTION FUND | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION | $20,000 |
| PROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA | $20,000 |
| BLACK VOTERS MATTER FUND | $15,000 |
| FUND FOR STATES | $15,000 |
| ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER POLITICAL ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| LATINO VICTORY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| EMGAGE ACTION INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 16% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.
The PA Alliance Action seeks to advocate at the state level for democracy reform through grassroots activities and support of like-minded organizations on behalf of and in support of all Pennsylvanians, in particular historically…
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…
The Youth Activism Project teaches teens movement-building skills to make policy impact at all levels of government. We envision a world in which youth activism is the norm, not the exception. We know that even though many young people are…
PODER Inc. is a non-partisan organization that combats voter suppression by engaging Black and Brown New Yorkers around local, state, and federal elections.
Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions
Voter engagement
Voter education around policy
Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities
Conduct digital, direct mail and other public communication campaigns to support voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Action tn is dedicated to helping grassroots groups across tennessee expand and coordinate their civic and political engagement efforts in service of building power around our shared values, with a particular focus on empowering…
Non-PartisanVoter Educ Advocacy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Youth Action and the most unlike its peers is Make the Road Action Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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.
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 FORWARD ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds Rise United Network Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds POWER RISING ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR STATES ↗
- Who funds Black Voters Matter Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds LATINO VICTORY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Emgage Action Inc ↗
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 a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Future Forward USA Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation · Women Donors Network Action · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Wellness Advocacy Fund · Our American Future Action
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 Communities United 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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