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Economic Security Project Action Inc

Economic security project action advocates for ideas that build economic power for all americans.

$985k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$482k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$1.3MPublic Benefit$887kCommunity Improvement$847kCrime & Legal$350kEnvironment$287kFood & Nutrition$175kHealth$110kScience & Tech$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $355k
  • $250k+1 grant · $482k
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT INC$482,279
THE NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION$90,000
P STREET PROJECT$80,000
FREEDOM VIRGINIA INC$70,000
MECEP ACTION$65,000
THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET & POLICY CENTER$50,000
PENNSYLVANIA POLICY CENTER$45,000
MOMSRISING TOGETHER$25,000
NEW JERSEY POLICY PERSPECTIVE INC$25,000
CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND$25,000
OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$15,000
MASSACHUSETTS BUDGET & POLICY CENTER INC$7,700
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 (FY21–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW: $10k → 9%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $25k → 19%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $10k → 19%MOMSRISING TOGETHER: $25k → 9%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
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DC
HI
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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 12 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

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

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
35

Total granted

$1.6M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
0%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $727k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PS
    P STREET PROJECT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $135k · revenue +75%
  • NY
    NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +130%
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER
    3× · 2019–2024 · $68k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • IF
    INITIATIVE FOR MEDICINES ACCESS & KNOWLEDGE (I-MAK) INC
    one grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue -28%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue +51%
  • AC
    Action Center on Race and the Economy
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -42%
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
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
2
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
5
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc

To drive principled solutions through rigorous analysis, reasoned negotiation, and respectful dialogue. to actively promote bipartisanship and work to address the key challenges facing the nation including energy and infrastructure,…

Public Benefit
6
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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7
Dc Policy Center

The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…

Public Benefit
8
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
9
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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10
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
11
Employ America

To promote macroeconomic policies that ensure the sustained advancement of labor market outcomes for all american workers, i.e. tight labor markets, higher wages and better quality employment.

Employment
12
United for a Fair Economy Inc

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink; the most unlike its peers is Solid Ground Washington. 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

52 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. 52 of the 56 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
23/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIGHT CORPORATE MONOPOLIES: $400,000 · OtherFIGHT CORPORATE MONOPOLIESUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $160,000 · OtherUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INCFIGHT FOR THE FUTURE INC: $155,000 · OtherFIGHT FOR THE FUTURE INCP STREET PROJECT: $135,000 · OtherP STREET PROJECTNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $120,000 · OtherNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INCAction Center on Race and the Economy: $100,000 · OtherPREP4ALL: $100,000 · OtherFARM ACTION FUND: $100,000 · OtherBARATUNDE BUREAUCRACY CORPORATION: $79,560 · OtherSUNRISE MOVEMENT: $75,000 · OtherTIDES CENTER: $100,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH: $90,000 · OtherNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $75,000 · Other+13 more: $258,539 · Other+13 moreECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT INC: $482,279 · Civil RightsECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT …United for Respect: $196,000 · Civil RightsUnited for RespectTHE TECH OVERSIGHT PROJECT: $170,000 · Civil RightsTHE TECH OVERSIGHT PROJECTMECEP ACTION: $65,000 · Civil RightsMECEP ACTIONAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $35,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $92,500 · Civil Rights+5 moreINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE: $225,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FO…POLICYLINK: $100,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINKPEOPLE'S ACTION: $75,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACT…MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $57,000 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEOPLE…DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSOCIAL SECURITY WORKS: $75,000 · Public BenefitFREEDOM VIRGINIA INC: $70,000 · Public BenefitTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $67,500 · Public BenefitPENNSYLVANIA POLICY CENTER: $45,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $35,000 · Public BenefitParentsTogether Action: $25,000 · Public BenefitINITIATIVE FOR MEDICINES ACCESS & KNOWLEDGE (I-MAK) INC: $225,000 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $15,000 · Crime & LegalMaine Equal Justice Partners: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $98,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $75,000 · EnvironmentFuse Washington: $52,000 · EnvironmentUnited for Respect Education Fund: $100,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $75,000 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Education
Other$1,948,099Civil Rights$1,040,779Community Improvement$482,000Public Benefit$317,500Crime & Legal$250,000Environment$225,500Education$190,000

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 budgetECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT INC: $482,279 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFIGHT CORPORATE MONOPOLIES: $400,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetINITIATIVE FOR MEDICINES ACCESS & KNOWLEDGE (I-MAK) INC: $225,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE: $225,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUnited for Respect: $196,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE TECH OVERSIGHT PROJECT: $170,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $160,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetFIGHT FOR THE FUTURE INC: $155,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetP STREET PROJECT: $135,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAction Center on Race and the Economy: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM ACTION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $98,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH: $90,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT: $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL SECURITY WORKS: $75,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFREEDOM VIRGINIA INC: $70,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $67,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $57,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFuse Washington: $52,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA POLICY CENTER: $45,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMPIRE STATE VOICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetParentsTogether Action: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOur Revolution: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNew Jersey Policy Perspective: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMOMSRISING TOGETHER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY: $19,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMassachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc: $17,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetILLINOIS IMMIGRANT ACTION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $10,000 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundHopewell FundTides FoundationEconomic Security Pro…Open Society Action F…All Hands on Deck Net…Center on Budget and …Way to Win Action Fun…Tides AdvocacyCommunications Worker…Center for Community …Annie E Casey Foundat…
Sixteen Thirty FundDC39.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Economic Security Project Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · Center for Community Change Action · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc

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 Economic Security Project Action Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Economic Security Project Action Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Economic Security Project Action Inc 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 56 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.

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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