How much did CSPI ACTION FUND grant in FY2024?

CSPI ACTION FUND reported 11 grants totaling $852,756 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is CSPI ACTION FUND based?

CSPI ACTION FUND is based in DC.

CSPI ACTION FUND

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

CSPI ACTION FUND

The corporation is organized for the purposes of advocating for government policies that promote healthy diets, prevent deceptive marketing practices, and ensure that science is used to promote the public good.

$853k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$331k

Largest

01What you fund

0163% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Health$394kFood & Nutrition$113kEducation$70kCommunity Improvement$30kCivil Rights$23kCrime & Legal$23kHuman Services$12kPhilanthropy$11kOther$399k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

conduct advocacyadvocacy childchild nutritionnutrition reauthorizationreauthorization similarsimilar legislationtruth

2024

foodmealsprocurementrestaurantcampaigns

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k7 grants · $180k
$50k–250k3 grants · $323k
$250k+1 grant · $331k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

INTERFAITH PUBLIC HEALTH NETWORK$330,620
THE CENTER FOR BLACK HEALTH & EQUITY$150,000
COMMUNITY FOOD ADVOCATES$90,000
BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES$83,000
PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE ASSOCIATES$42,750
KEEP YOUR FAITH CORPORATION$40,000
RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE$31,500
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER$30,000
UNITED PARENTS AND STUDENTS$13,500
MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO$11,925
MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND$10,500

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 33% of CSPI ACTION FUND’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

CSPI ACTION FUNDlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

Foodwise Community

Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We achieve this through the operation of farmers markets and food education programs.

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Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services

Food Security for America Inc

Creating communities across America to equip those in need of healthy fresh food

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Food Equality Initiative Inc

Food Equality Initiative fights for nutrition security and health equity for all through increasing access to nourishing food as medicine.

Food & Nutrition

Eat Real Certified Inc

Transform the food industry and the food systems to reduce diet related diseases and planetary impact by performing REAL certifications of food service providers, including K-12 school programs and providing educational activities.

Public Benefit

Fresh Approach

The mission of fresh approach is to create long-term change in local food systems by connecting california communities with healthy food from california farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.

Food & Nutrition

Everyones Harvest

Everyone's Harvest's mission is to provide access to healthy, affordable fruits and vegetables through certified farmers markets and community food programs.

Food & Nutrition

Food Connect Co

Bridging the gaps in our food system to end hunger, build health, and eliminate food waste.

Food & Nutrition

Fair Food Network Inc

Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.

Food & Nutrition

Washington Food Coalition

To strengthen hunger relief providers in Washington State

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Center for Food Safety

Food & Nutrition

Foodshot Global Inc

Working to transform the food system into one that is more healthy, sustainable, and equitable.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm to Table Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Center for Black Health and Equity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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)

19/19

Grantees still filing

17/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$421,287Health$394,072Food & Nutrition$113,340Education$69,742Community Improvement$30,000Civil Rights$23,000Crime & Legal$23,000

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.

Center for Science in TheDC33.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Center for Science in The · American Heart Association Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Share Our Strength · Food Research & Action Center · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 CSPI 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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: NORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 454643139 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 NORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
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 Cspi Action Fund?

Find your warmest path to Cspi Action 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.

CSPI ACTION FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cspi Action Fund?

More from the funding graph

CSPI ACTION FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cspi Action Fund?

More from the funding graph