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Faith in Action Fund

FAITH IN ACTION FUND is dedicated to empowering communities of faith and advancing social justice.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$1.0MPublic Benefit$445kCommunity Improvement$328kPhilanthropy$25k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$833k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POWER ACTION FUND$50,000
FAITH IN FLORIDA ACTION FUND INC$40,000
CAFE ACCION$25,000
LA VOICE ACTION$25,000
VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC$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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC: $20k → 10%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

VT
NH
MN
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
MO
NM
GA
FL
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$984k · 4 repeat orgs$803k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$984k
$708k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+14%

Still filing today

75%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PI
    POWER INTERFAITH INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $641k · revenue +134%
  • FI
    Faith in Florida Action Fund Inc
    3× · 2017–2024 · $231k · revenue -66% · 27% of their budget
  • CA
    Cafe Accion
    2× · 2020–2024 · $77k · revenue +47% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • NF
    NEW FLORIDA VISION
    one grant, 2020 · $140k
  • FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK
    one grant, 2019 · $115k · revenue -72%
  • FI
    FAITH IN NEW YORK ACTION FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
Pico California

Our vision is a Moral Economy for California which includes structural campaigns that result in significant material improvements for the most vulnerable Californians: making affordable and dignified housing a human right, reducing the…

Public Benefit
2
Faith in Action Bay Area

Our mission is to develop community leaders who organize to change systems in order to create racial and economic equity in the Bay Area region.

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3
Faith in Indiana

Faith in Indiana (formerly IndyCAN) is a catalyst for faith communities and marginalized peoples to act collectively for racial and economic justice in Indiana. FaithIN develops civic leaders directly impacted by inequality, awakens the…

Human Services
4
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
5
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
6
Faith in Action Fund

Faith in action fund is dedicated to empowering communities of faith and advancing social justice. the mission of the fund is to: - empower people of faith in states and cities to organize and develop their power, holding elected officials…

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7
Freedom Action Now

Freedom action now, inc. (fan) is a radical queer black and southeast asian feminist organization creating change for the most impacted communities in wisconsin through voter education, leadership development, community organizing, and…

Civil Rights
8
Methodist Federation for Social Action

MFSA mobilizes, leads and sustains a progressive United Methodist movement that energizes people to be agents of God's Justice, Peace and Reconciliation.

International
9
Fair Fight Action Inc

Fair fight action promotes fair elections in georgia and around the country, encourages voter participation in elections, educates voters about elections and their voting rights, and advocates for progressive issues.

Education
10
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

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11
Faith Forward

Faith Forward is an interfaith network of people who advocate for policy positions that reflect our belief that each individual has equal worth in the eyes of the creator and therefore should have equal dignity under the law. We seek to…

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12
Black in Action Collective

Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith in Action Network; the most unlike its peers is Cafe Accion. 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

17 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. 17 of the 21 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POWER INTERFAITH INC: $640,797 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTERFAITH INCFaith in Florida Action Fund Inc: $230,950 · Community ImprovementFaith in Florida Action Fund IncFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $114,752 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK+1 more: $22,310 · Community ImprovementNEW FLORIDA VISION: $140,000 · OtherNEW FLORIDA VISIONFAITH IN NEW YORK ACTION FUND INC: $100,000 · OtherFAITH IN NEW YORK ACTION FU…POWER ACTION FUND: $50,000 · OtherPOWER ACTION FUNDFloridians for a Fair Democracy Inc: $50,000 · OtherFloridians for a Fair Democ…MISSOURI IMPACT INC: $35,000 · OtherMISSOURI IMPACT INCNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $32,300 · OtherNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION …FAITH IN VERMONT FUND: $25,000 · OtherFAITH IN VERMONT FUNDGRANITE STATE INTERFAITH ACTION FUND INC: $15,000 · OtherCafe Accion: $76,800 · Civil RightsCafe AccionWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $58,200 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES…PICO California Action Fund: $56,517 · Civil RightsPICO California …FAITH IN MINNESOTA: $32,300 · Civil RightsFAITH IN MINNESO…LA VOICE ACTION: $25,000 · Civil RightsLA VOICE ACTIONTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $51,800 · Public BenefitTIDES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyVERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC: $20,000 · Human Services
Community Improvement$1,008,809Other$447,300Civil Rights$258,817Public Benefit$51,800Philanthropy$25,000Human Services$20,000

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 budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC: $640,797 over 3y, 17% of budgetFaith in Florida Action Fund Inc: $230,950 over 3y, 27% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $114,752 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCafe Accion: $76,800 over 2y, 32% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $58,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $51,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFloridians for a Fair Democracy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $32,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAITH IN MINNESOTA: $32,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA VOICE ACTION: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION: $22,310 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetVERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGRANITE STATE INTERFAITH ACTION FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

All Hands on Deck Net…Tides AdvocacyTides FoundationSixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesPro-Democracy CampaignFaith in Action Netwo…Women Donors Network …Center for Community …Way to Win Action Fun…New Venture Fund
All Hands on Deck Network IncMA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation · Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Faith in Action Network · Women Donors Network Action · Center for Community Change Action · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · New Venture 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 Faith in Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Faith in Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Faith in Action Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Faith in Action Fund 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 21 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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