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Cspi Action Fund at a glance

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Cspi Action Fund

Identifying and passing policies aimed at increasing access to nutritious food, supporting healthy food and beverage choices, and ensuring a healthy diet for people across demographic groups.

$179k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$871kHealth$172kCivil Rights$98kEducation$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kHuman Services$12k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $159,480, the rows itemized in this filing. The $179,480 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$36,600
Median grant
4
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER$50,000
NEW ORLEANS FOOD POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE$40,000
INFERFAITH PUBLIC HEALTH NETWORK (FISCAL SPONSOR CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY$36,600
SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER$20,000
BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES$12,880
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 (FY24–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $12k → 11%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

WA
NY
OH
RI
CA
CO
NE
KY
WV
NM
NC
LA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 29% of Cspi Action Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Cspi Action Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$738k · 3 repeat orgs$496k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
14

Total granted

$738k
$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
0%

Still filing today

67%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’24’25
HealthFood & NutritionEducationCivil RightsCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CO
    CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY BIBLE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $393k
  • TC
    The Center for Black Health and Equity
    2× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +85%
  • BA
    BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $96k · revenue -2%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Food Advocates Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $90k · revenue -44%
  • PR
    PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE ASSOCIATES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $43k
  • KY
    Keep Your Faith Corporation Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k
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
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
2
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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3
Foodwise Community

Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.

—
4
Partnership for a Healthier America Inc

Advancing equitable access to nutritious food for all in America to lead healthy lives.

Youth Development
5
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
6
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
7
Eat Real Certified Inc

We empower food service programs and school districts to make food delicious, nourishing, and responsible through our evidence-based certification program. We provide education and support that inspires students, schools, and communities…

Public Benefit
8
Switch4Good

Advancing Health Equity Through Food System Change We are a nonprofit advancing food equity and nutrition security by working at the intersection of public health, education and policy. We start with dairy because of its outsized impact on…

Animals
9
Food Connect Co

At food connect, we're dedicated to bridging the gaps in our food system, working to end hunger and fostering healthier communities through our innovative initiatives and programs. we build scalable technologies that support last-mile…

Food & Nutrition
10
New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee

a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.

Food & Nutrition
11
Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank

Reduce hunger by: creating access to high quality, desirable food and other essentials building a responsive regional hunger relief network and disrupting racism, because of its historical and structural connection to hunger and poverty.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm to Table Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY BIBLE: $392,712 · OtherCHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY BIBLEPROFESSIONAL RESOURCE ASSOCIATES: $42,750 · OtherPROFESSIONAL RESOURCE ASSOCIATESNEW ORLEANS FOOD POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE: $40,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS FOOD POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEESUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $20,000 · Other+2 more: $22,425 · OtherThe Center for Black Health and Equity: $249,572 · HealthThe Center for Black Health and Equit…BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $95,880 · HealthBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INCTHE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $31,500 · HealthTHE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDA…NORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION INC: $30,000 · HealthNORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION…Community Food Advocates Inc: $90,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity …HUNGER FREE COLORADO: $17,340 · Food & NutritionHUNGER FRE…A Well-Fed World: $6,000 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER: $50,000 · Civil RightsKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $23,000 · Civil RightsKeep Your Faith Corporation Inc: $40,000 · EducationFARM TO TABLE INC: $16,242 · EducationUnited Parents and Students: $13,500 · EducationMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $30,000 · Community ImprovementNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $23,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$517,887Health$406,952Food & Nutrition$113,340Civil Rights$73,000Education$69,742Community Improvement$30,000Crime & Legal$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center for Black Health and Equity: $249,572 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $95,880 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Advocates Inc: $90,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $31,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $23,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO: $17,340 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFARM TO TABLE INC: $16,242 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUnited Parents and Students: $13,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $11,925 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Well-Fed World: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Center for Science in…American Heart Associ…WK Kellogg FoundationMAZON A Jewish Respon…Share Our StrengthFood Research & Actio…Public Welfare Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…
Center for Science in the Public InterestDC39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Center for Science in the Public Interest · American Heart Association Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Share Our Strength · Food Research & Action Center · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Cspi Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cspi Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cspi Action Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Cspi Action Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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