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Dignity and Power Now

Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities.

$412k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Employment$300kHuman Services$248kCrime & Legal$230kPhilanthropy$185kCommunity Improvement$168kFood & Nutrition$100kPublic Benefit$50kInternational$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$168,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cangress$180,000
Revolve Impact LLC$168,000
Tides Foundation$100,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Charitable Ventures of Orange County: $80k → 10%Trans Lifeline: $47k → 10%Tides Foundation: $100k → 10%YXPlosion LLC: $80k → 12%Cangress: $180k → 14%Community Interventions: $88k → 18%Neo Philathropy: $50k → 17%Tides Foundation: $85k → 10%Cangress: $50k → 14%Fractured Atlas: $10k → 17%Revolve Impact LLC: $300k → 14%Living through Giving Foundation: $100k → 14%Revolve Impact LLC: $168k → 14%Youth Justice Coalition: $50k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
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
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
2
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
3
Justice Catalyst Inc

Justice catalyst takes on social justice issues that fall between the cracks of traditional advocacy models. by connecting advocates with diverse specialties and applying a cross-disciplinary approach to the law, justice catalyst develops…

Civil Rights
4
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
5
Initiate Justice

Initiate Justice's mission is to activate the power of people directly impacted by mass incarceration to be leaders in the movement to end it. Through direct outreach and trainings,we develop organizers both inside and outside of prisons,…

Crime & Legal
6
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice

Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberationof immigrants in detention in california. we seek to empower immigrants in detentionand their communities through technical assistance, education, and…

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7
La Forward Institute

Transform local communities into places that are fair and flourishing for everyone through education, community organization, and coalition-building.

Civil Rights
8
LexCollective

LexCollective is a not-for-profit organization that addresses the most extreme forms of social, racial, economic, and environmental injustices around the world, such as mass atrocities, human trafficking, environmental destruction, and…

International
9
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
10
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
11
Houston in Action Network

To promote civic engagement through education, development, outreach and grant-making.

Civil Rights
12
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neo Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Living Through Giving Foundation. 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 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. 10 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Revolve Impact LLC: $468,000 · OtherRevolve Impact LLCYXPLOSION LLC: $80,000 · OtherYXPLOSION LLCCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $230,000 · Community ImprovementCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNI…COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS INC: $88,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS INCCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $80,000 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE CO…TIDES FOUNDATION: $185,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIO…LIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Food & NutritionNEO Philanthropy Inc: $50,000 · Public BenefitYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $47,000 · HealthFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$548,000Community Improvement$398,000Philanthropy$185,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Public Benefit$50,000Youth Development$50,000Health$47,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $230,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS INC: $88,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $80,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYXPLOSION LLC: $80,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $47,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Heising-Simons Fo…The California Endowm…
The Heising-Simons FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Dignity and Power Now funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dignity and Power Now. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    3report 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, 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.
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    How do I get to Dignity and Power Now?

    Find your warmest path to Dignity and Power Now 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $422k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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