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Der Action Inc

The purpose of der action, inc.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Public Benefit$285kCrime & Legal$75kArts & Culture$35kCivil Rights$35kHuman Services$15kEnvironment$10k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$227k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE$50,000
THE NEW PRESS INC$15,000
AMERICAN SUNLIGHT PROJECT$10,000
SOUTH BROOKLYN SANCTUARY INC$10,000
HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILIES UNITED FOR FREEDOM FUND: $25k → 11%PEOPLE'S PARITY PROJECT ACTION: $40k → 8%THE NEW PRESS INC: $20k → 17%SOUTH BROOKLYN SANCTUARY INC: $10k → 20%PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE: $75k → 14%GLOBAL IMPACT SOCIAL WELFARE FUND: $50k → 9%THE NEW PRESS INC: $15k → 17%PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE: $50k → 14%ONE FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND: $50k → 17%PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE: $40k → 14%DAGA INC: $15k → 14%AMERICAN SUNLIGHT PROJECT: $10k → 14%HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD: $10k → 14%AFJ ACTION CAMPAIGN: $25k → 14%AFJ ACTION CAMPAIGN: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$235k · 3 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$235k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Civil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PS
    PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $165k · revenue +8%
  • TN
    THE NEW PRESS INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue -3%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ACTION CAMPAIGN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • OF
    ONE FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +60%
  • PP
    PEOPLE'S PARITY PROJECT ACTION
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • FU
    FAMILIES UNITED FOR FREEDOM FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -99%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
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
2
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
3
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
4
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

5
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
6
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
7
Democracy Planning & Enhancement Fund

The democracy planning & enhancement fund works to strengthen democratic practice and uphold the constitution.

8
Democracy Forward

See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.

9
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
10
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

11
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
12
Just Foreign Policy

The organization is an independent and non-partisan membership organization dedicated to reforming u.s. foreign policy through coordinating the broad majority of americans to advocate their interests and values.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House Majority Forward and the most unlike its peers is Global Impact Social Welfare Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC — $165,000 · OtherPROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INCONE FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND — $50,000 · OtherONE FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUNDFAMILIES UNITED FOR FREEDOM FUND — $25,000 · OtherFAMILIES UNITED FOR FREEDOM FUNDDEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · OtherDEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATIONTHE AMERICAN SUNLIGHT PROJECT — $10,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE TO ELECT AARON FORD — $10,000 · OtherPEOPLE'S PARITY PROJECT ACTION — $40,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE'S PARITY PROJE…ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ACTION CAMPAIGN — $35,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE …SOUTH BROOKLYN SANCTUARY INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsSOUTH BROOKLYN SANCTU…Global Impact Social Welfare Fund — $50,000 · Public BenefitGlobal Impac…THE NEW PRESS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$275,000Civil Rights$85,000Public Benefit$50,000Arts & Culture$35,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC — $165,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetGlobal Impact Social Welfare Fund — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONE FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NEW PRESS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ACTION CAMPAIGN — $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFAMILIES UNITED FOR FREEDOM FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SUNLIGHT PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTH BROOKLYN SANCTUARY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Der Action Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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