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Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd

Demos is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization founded in 2000.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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 2025.

Public Benefit$1.2MCivil Rights$685kCommunity Improvement$625kEnvironment$490kEducation$241kPhilanthropy$90kEmployment$47kCrime & Legal$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,655 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,655 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–22, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $40k → 10%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANE IN ARIZONA: $30k → 11%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $15k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $10k → 9%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $15k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%ALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH INC: $15k → 14%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

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 22% of Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltdlessmore 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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 18 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
49

Total granted

$1.2M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+36%

Still filing today

94%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther
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

  • FR
    FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $229k · revenue +99%
  • TO
    THE OLE EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +178%
  • MO
    MISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE
    3× · 2019–2022 · $105k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • ME
    MoveOn Education Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $428k · revenue -87%
  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $327k · revenue +44%
  • NE
    NEW ECONOMY PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +41%
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.

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Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
3
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
4
Jobs With Justice Education Fund

The organization serves as a coalition of labor organizations, community groups, faith-based organizations, and student groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people. To this end, the corporation shall engage in organizing…

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5
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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6
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
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Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
8
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
9
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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10
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
11
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
12
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Institute of the Black World 21ST Century. 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

66 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. 66 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/66
Grantees still filing
41/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MoveOn Education Fund: $428,102 · Civil RightsMoveOn Education FundFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $229,250 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INCTHE OLE EDUCATION FUND: $135,300 · Civil RightsTHE OLE EDUCATION FUNDMISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE: $105,000 · Civil RightsMISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEME…MOTHERING JUSTICE: $95,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICEARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $48,750 · Civil Rights+10 more: $184,000 · Civil Rights+10 moreTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $326,809 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENG…NEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementNEW ECONOMY PROJECT …TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $65,000 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZING PRO…+4 more: $53,000 · Community Improvement+4 moreTIDES FOUNDATION: $380,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDAT…SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyYale University: $105,992 · EducationYale Univer…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $90,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UN…BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $65,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT N…NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 · Education+4 more: $30,000 · Education+4 moreWashington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund: $55,000 · OtherWashington Communi…MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $42,500 · OtherMAINE PEOPLE'S RES…NAACP MISSOURI STATE CONFERENCE: $40,500 · OtherNAACP MISSOURI STA…COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH FOUND…ESSENTIAL INFORMATION INC: $27,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $25,000 · OtherYouth Council for Positive Development: $20,000 · OtherCommunity Voices Heard Inc: $57,000 · OtherCommunity Voices H…MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $47,000 · OtherMISSOURI JOBS WITH…Data For Black Lives Inc: $40,000 · OtherData For Black Liv…COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $24,000 · OtherYVETTE A FLUNDER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Other+15 more: $137,981 · Other+15 morePUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $65,000 · Public BenefitProgress Michigan Education Inc: $48,750 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $40,000 · Public BenefitTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $10,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $10,000 · Public BenefitFreedom Center for Social Justice: $55,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $30,000 · Human ServicesALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $10,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$1,225,402Community Improvement$644,809Philanthropy$420,000Education$380,992Other$575,981Public Benefit$198,750Human Services$155,000

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 budgetMoveOn Education Fund: $428,102 over 1y, 21% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $380,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $326,809 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $229,250 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC: $200,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE OLE EDUCATION FUND: $135,300 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetYale University: $105,992 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE: $105,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE: $95,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $65,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Voices Heard Inc: $57,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWashington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund: $55,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFreedom Center for Social Justice: $55,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetProgress Michigan Education Inc: $48,750 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $48,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $47,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $42,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetData For Black Lives Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetORGANIZE TENNESSEE: $37,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetESSENTIAL INFORMATION INC: $27,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $24,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSAVE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetYouth Council for Positive Development: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetYVETTE A FLUNDER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $18,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER INTERFAITH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEW JERSEY WORKING FAMILIES ALLIANCE CORP: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetINSTITUTE OF THE BLACK WORLD 21ST CENTURY: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundProteus Fund IncTides FoundationWindward FundThe Ford FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncCenter for Community …Marguerite Casey Foun…Borealis PhilanthropyWorking Families Orga…Solidago Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC50.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · The Ford Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Center for Community Change · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Working Families Organization Inc · Solidago Foundation

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 Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Coalition of Communities of Color: 15% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chainless Change Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 73 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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More from the funding graph

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