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Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc

The primary activity of everytown for gun safety action fund is to promote gun safety legislation and initiatives and reduce gun violence through the education of policy-makers, the press, and the public about the consequences of gun violence and organizing communities in support of gun safety.

$998k
Granted FY2022
23
Grants FY2022
9
States reached
$250k
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 2022.

Public Benefit$1.5MCivil Rights$677kCommunity Improvement$125kCrime & Legal$82kEducation$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kEnvironment$10kYouth Development$5k
02FY2022 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $976,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $998,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,300 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 · FY2022

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $356k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $370k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRONGER AMERICA INC$250,000
SAFE SCHOOLS SAFE COMMUNITIES OREGON$155,000
NATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS$60,000
NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS$55,000
THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS LTD$50,000
STATE SOLUTIONS INC$50,000
AMERICA VOTES$45,000
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES$35,000
NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES$30,000
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDUCATION & LEADERSHIP$30,000
WESTERN GOVERNORS' ASSOCIATION$25,000
HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD$25,000
THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS$25,000
AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC$25,000
WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS$20,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DELAWARE COALITION AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $20k → 10%NO ON LR 130 CO MFPE: $110k → 9%EQUALITY CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE POLICY COUNCIL: $11k → 10%OKLAHOMA GROWTH ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 13%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDUCATION & LEADERSHIP: $30k → 14%PUT ALABAMA FIRST: $15k → 11%THE GOOD LAND COMMITTEE INC: $250k → 17%ACTION UTAH: $50k → 5%MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 8%NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $35k → 12%OHIOANS FOR GUN SAFETY: $20k → 15%THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS LTD: $50k → 7%GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACTION COMMITTEE: $17k → 14%STRONGER AMERICA INC: $250k → 7%WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: $20k → 9%A STRONGER LOUISIANA: $50k → 19%THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS LTD: $40k → 15%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDUCATION & LEADERSHIP: $25k → 14%ACTION UTAH: $25k → 5%MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 8%NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $13k → 12%THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS LTD: $24k → 7%AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC: $25k → 6%AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYORS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS LTD: $23k → 7%AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYORS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%WESTERN GOVERNORS' ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYORS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%WESTERN GOVERNORS' ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYORS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%BLACK CHURCH ACTION FUND: $150k → 14%NATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS: $60k → 14%HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD: $25k → 14%MAJORITY FORWARD: $15k → 14%AMERICAN BRIDGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS: $55k → 14%NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $30k → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $45k → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $45k → 14%STATE SOLUTIONS INC: $50k → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $45k → 14%THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS: $35k → 14%BUSINESS FORWARD INC: $40k → 14%THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS: $32k → 14%PIC 2021 INC: $25k → 14%THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS: $25k → 14%THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS: $20k → 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

AK
MT
IL
WI
MI
MA
OR
OH
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
DE
DC
OK
LA
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$938k · 15 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$938k
$855k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

73%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $621k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Community ImprovementCivil RightsPublic BenefitCrime & LegalEducationArts & CultureOther
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
    COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $136k · revenue +61%
  • AV
    America Votes
    5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +495%
  • NB
    National Black Caucus of State Legislators
    5× · 2019–2024 · $73k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TG
    The Good Land Committee Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • BC
    Black Church Action Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -23%
  • AF
    AB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue +868%
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
Council for National Policy

To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.

Public Benefit
2
American Civil Liberties Union

To promote advocacy on legislative issues in support of civil rights and liberties. to advance the organization's civil rights and civil liberties agenda in the state of louisiana legislature.

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3
Public Affairs Council

Our mission is to advance the field of public affairs and provide tools and resources that enable public affairs executives and managers to achieve their business and professional goals.

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4
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
5
American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware Inc

The organization monitors legislation that could impact civil liberties and takes the necessary action to support or oppose such legislation.

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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
7
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights
8
American Legislative Exchange Council

The american legislative exchange council (alec) is a forum for stakeholders to exchange ideas and develop potential solutions. alec's mission is to advance and promote the jeffersonian principles of limited government, free markets and…

Public Benefit
9
New Civil Liberties Alliance

Public interest legal activities

Arts & Culture
10
New American Leaders Action Fund Inc

New american leaders action fund (nalaf) is building a democracy that represents and includes all people by engaging new voters, supporting new americans as they run for office, and expanding civic engagement.

Civil Rights
11
State Government Affairs Council

To advance and support the state government affairs profession by fostering community among peers and elected officials, building knowledge, and promoting diverse perspectives in a nonpartisan environment.

Community Improvement
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska

Preservation and promotion of civil rights and civil liberties.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures; the most unlike its peers is Dolores Huerta Action 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

60 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
31/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Good Land Committee Inc: $250,000 · OtherThe Good Land Committee IncStronger America Inc: $250,000 · OtherStronger America IncSAFE SCHOOLS SAFE COMMUNITIES OREGON: $155,000 · OtherSAFE SCHOOLS SAFE COMMUNITIES OREGONBlack Church Action Fund: $150,000 · OtherBlack Church Action FundCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS: $136,000 · OtherCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTSUNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS: $112,000 · OtherUNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORSMONTANA FEDERATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: $110,000 · OtherMONTANA FEDERATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEESAction Utah: $75,000 · OtherNational Black Caucus of State Legislators: $72,500 · Other+15 more: $330,500 · Other+15 moreAmerica Votes: $135,000 · Community ImprovementAmerica VotesAfrican American Mayors Assocation: $65,000 · Community ImprovementAfrican Americ…BUSINESS FORWARD INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS FORWA…PUT ALABAMA FIRST: $25,000 · Community ImprovementPUT ALABAMA FI…HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD: $25,000 · Community ImprovementHOUSE MAJORITY…BOARD OF LATINO LEGISLATIVE LEADERS: $20,000 · Community ImprovementBOARD OF LATIN…+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementAB FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Public BenefitAB FOUNDA…STATE SOLUTIONS INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitSTATE SOL…MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE POLICY COUNCIL: $11,000 · Public BenefitMEXICAN A…NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $10,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS: $65,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $55,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY CALIFORNIA: $20,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Civil RightsOKLAHOMA GROWTH ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsMAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · Crime & LegalGUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACTION COMMITTEE: $16,500 · Crime & LegalDELAWARE COALITION AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 · EducationTHE ALASKA CENTER: $10,000 · Environment
Other$1,641,000Community Improvement$320,000Public Benefit$196,000Civil Rights$180,000Crime & Legal$56,500Education$20,000Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Good Land Committee Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetStronger America Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS: $136,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica Votes: $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAB FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMONTANA FEDERATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: $110,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAction Utah: $75,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetNational Black Caucus of State Legislators: $72,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS: $65,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetAfrican American Mayors Assocation: $65,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $55,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSTATE SOLUTIONS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetA STRONGER LOUISIANA: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetBUSINESS FORWARD INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPUT ALABAMA FIRST: $25,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIC 2021 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNITY FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBOARD OF LATINO LEGISLATIVE LEADERS: $20,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetGUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACTION COMMITTEE: $16,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMAJORITY FORWARD: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA GROWTH ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAJOR COUNTY SHERIFFS OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ALASKA CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTIVES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Pharmaceutical Resear…Edison Electric Insti…AARPCtia - the Wireless A…National Education As…American Fuel and Pet…Nuclear Energy Instit…Ncta - the Internet &…New Venture FundEverytown for Gun Saf…American Gas Associat…Sixteen Thirty Fund
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC41.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Edison Electric Institute Inc · AARP · Ctia - the Wireless Association · National Education Association of the United States · American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · New Venture Fund · Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc · American Gas Association · Sixteen Thirty Fund

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 Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–75%
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 Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund 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 45 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.3M 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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