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Evidence for Impact

EVIDENCE FOR IMPACT's mission is to promote civic engagement and a stronger democracy by educating, encouraging, and enabling more americans to make their voices heard through elections and other institutional processes that ensure their representation and shape their future.

$140M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$40M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $550k
  • $250k+22 grants · $140M
$1,400,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AB FOUNDATION$40,400,000
FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION$38,250,000
WORKING AMERICA$16,000,000
CENTER FOR VOTER INNOVATION$11,500,000
FF PAC$10,200,000
CIVIC TRUTH ACTION$4,350,000
UNRIG OUR ECONOMY INC$3,000,000
MTG RESEARCH INC$2,627,600
VOTERS OF THESE 50 STATES OF AMERICA$2,000,000
ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$1,960,000
ACCELERATE ACTION INC$1,800,000
FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION$1,540,000
HEADCOUNT INC$1,400,000
WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND$1,140,000
VOTEVETS ACTION FUND INC$1,050,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $1.8M → 16%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
DE
DC
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 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
Register America

The organization is founded for social welfare purposes, including assisting with voter registration and advocating for policies which lead to increased voter registration in the united states.

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2
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
3
Defend the Vote Action Fund

To sustain and support the prioritization of comprehensive voting rights and democracy reform legislation at all levels of government.

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4
Right Vote Inc
Civil Rights
5
Public Agenda Inc

Public agenda strengthens american democracy by connecting research to action enabling people and institutions to pursue changes that make a difference. we amplify the voices of americans and help communities discover and build on common…

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6
Secure Election Project Inc

To preserve and protect the sanctity of our vote by promoting commonsense, nonpartisan election security reforms that prevent hacking and fraud without restricting eligible citizens from accessing the polls.

Public Benefit
7
Fair Democracy

Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…

Civil Rights
8
Voteamerica

The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.

Civil Rights
9
Americans for Public Trust

The Organization's mission is to restore trust in government by holding officials and groups accountable for corrupt and unethical behavior through investigation, legal action, and reporting.

Arts & Culture
10
Advance Democracy Inc

Advance democracy, inc. is a non-partisan nonprofit that produces independent public-interest research and journalism to educate the public on important public matters. the organization conducts highly-technical, specialized research,…

International
11
All Americans Vote

All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!

Civil Rights
12
Issue One Action

Issue one action is uniting republicans, democrats, and independents to protect our elections and fix our political system. we are committed to free, fair, and secure elections and reducing the influence of well-financed special interests…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Unrig Our Economy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 25 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AB FOUNDATION: $40,400,000 · Public BenefitAB FOUNDATIONFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION: $38,250,000 · Public BenefitFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTIONWORKING AMERICA: $16,000,000 · OtherWORKING AMERICAFF PAC: $10,200,000 · OtherFF PACCIVIC TRUTH ACTION: $4,350,000 · OtherCIVIC TRUTH ACTIONUNRIG OUR ECONOMY INC: $3,000,000 · OtherUNRIG OUR ECONOMY INCVOTERS OF THESE 50 STATES OF AMERICA: $2,000,000 · OtherFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION: $1,540,000 · Other+7 more: $3,060,000 · Other+7 moreCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION: $11,500,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR VOT…MTG RESEARCH INC: $2,627,600 · Civil RightsMTG RESEARCH I…ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $1,960,000 · Civil RightsORGANIZING EMP…HEAD COUNT INC: $1,400,000 · Civil RightsHEAD COUNT INC+3 more: $1,000,000 · Civil Rights+3 moreACCELERATE ACTION INC: $1,800,000 · Human ServicesWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $1,140,000 · EducationCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE: $200,000 · Health
Public Benefit$78,650,000Other$40,150,000Civil Rights$18,487,600Human Services$1,800,000Education$1,140,000Health$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORKING AMERICA: $16,000,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetACCELERATE ACTION INC: $1,800,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION: $1,540,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $1,140,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetVOTEVETS ACTION FUND INC: $1,050,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetRAPID RESIST ACTION: $300,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 FundBright Future FundAmerica VotesFuture Forward USA Ac…Open Society Action F…Hopewell FundAdvocacy Action Fund …Our American Future A…Tides AdvocacyFair DemocracyFuture Now ActionBrick by Brick Founda…
Sixteen Thirty FundDC29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Bright Future Fund · America Votes · Future Forward USA Action · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · Advocacy Action Fund Inc · Our American Future Action · Tides Advocacy · Fair Democracy · Future Now Action · Brick by Brick 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 Evidence for Impact funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evidence for Impact. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%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
    2get no government money at all
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Evidence for Impact?

    Find your warmest path to Evidence for Impact 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 25 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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    The unnamed billions
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    The regranting layer
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    $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