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Faith in Action Network

Faith in action(fia) is an international network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban, and rural communities.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Civil Rights$17MCommunity Improvement$9.6MPublic Benefit$9.1MReligion$2.6MHuman Services$1.9MCrime & Legal$477kInternational$152kEducation$137kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $1,379,517 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,924,566 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,545,049 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $629k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$25,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE$450,000
MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC$146,667
POWER INTERFAITH INC$119,430
FAITH IN ACTION NEVADA$106,667
NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE$106,667
THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE$50,000
ISAIAH$50,000
FAITH IN FLORIDA INC$50,000
VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION$33,580
FAITH IN NEW YORK INC$29,798
TOGETHER COLORADO$25,000
VIRGINIA INTERFAITH CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$25,000
FAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA$25,000
CORAZON AZ$25,000
FORCE DETROIT INC$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE (CAFE): $105k → 23%FORCE DETROIT: $10k → 21%FAITH IN INDIANA: $10k → 16%ACTION NEVADA: $412k → 10%VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION: $102k → 10%ISAIAH: $397k → 14%CAFE: $191k → 23%FORCE DETROIT INC: $903k → 21%FAITH IN INDIANA: $304k → 16%ACTION NEVADA: $163k → 10%VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION: $59k → 10%ISAIAH: $366k → 14%CAFE: $111k → 23%FORCE DETROIT INC: $25k → 21%FAITH IN INDIANA: $289k → 16%ACTION NEVADA: $140k → 10%VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION: $34k → 10%ISAIAH: $139k → 14%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $107k → 23%FAITH IN INDIANA: $248k → 16%FAITH IN ACTION NEVADA: $107k → 10%VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION: $17k → 10%CAF: $91k → 23%FAITH IN INDIANA: $134k → 16%FAITH IN NEVADA: $105k → 10%VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION: $15k → 10%ISAIAH: $35k → 14%CAFE: $70k → 23%VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION: $12k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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VT
NH
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MI
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
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AR
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DC
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $1.0M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$752k · 75% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

Sub-Saharan Africa$242k · 24% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$15k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 35 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
25

Total granted

$26M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-16%

Still filing today

83%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementCivil RightsReligionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
    6× · 2018–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +134% · 28% of their budget
  • FI
    Faith in Indiana
    5× · 2018–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +42% · 82% of their budget
  • TO
    THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • EI
    EMPOWER INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $6.8M
  • FF
    Foundation for Social Impact
    one grant, 2022 · $1.8M · revenue ×22
  • COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.8M · revenue +50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Pico California Action Fund

The PICO Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that works with multi-racial faith-based community organizations to build power and impact systemic change. We work at the state and local level to build capacity for civic…

Civil Rights
4
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
5
Faith in Action East Bay

The Mission of Faith in Action East Bay,Inc. is to develop leaders who build power through their congregations and schools to bring about systemic change and improve the quality of life for their community.

Community Improvement
6
California Interfaith Power & Light

California Interfaith Power & Light inspires and mobilizes individuals and communities of faith and conscience to take boldand justaction on climate change.

Environment
7
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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8
Bay Area Organizing Committee

A broad based network of local institutions - congregations, synagogues, non-profits and civic associations - that serve as a foundation for public relationships, leadership development and action around issues that affect our communities.

Unclassified
9
Arizona Ecumenical Council

Arizona Ecumenical Council dba Arizona Faith Network invites people into meaningful relationships, shared prayer and dialogue rooted in our faith traditions, and actions that influence public awareness, engagement and policy.

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10
Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy and Action in the Community

Isaac is a faith-based community organizing group made up of congregations and organizations that unite in order to accomplish what cannot be done as individuals or single congregations. together, we focus our collectively formed…

Religion
11
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
12
Interfaith Worker Justice

To advance the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. They envision a nation where all workers enjoy the rights to:…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Voice and the most unlike its peers is Institute of the Black World 21ST Century. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/64
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,501

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
28/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EMPOWER INITIATIVE — $6,794,752 · OtherEMPOWER INITIATIVEFAITH IN FLORIDA — $2,931,114 · OtherFAITH IN FLORIDAFoundation for Social Impact — $1,849,730 · OtherFoundation for Social ImpactFAITH IN ACTION FUND — $1,500,000 · OtherFAITH IN ACTION FUNDOCO — $919,242 · OtherSACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER — $891,969 · OtherInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc — $702,980 · OtherFAITH IN ACTION BAY AREA — $645,593 · Other+20 more — $1,896,529 · Other+20 morePOWER INTERFAITH INC — $2,855,049 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTERFAITH INCTOGETHER COLORADO — $1,568,881 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER COLORADOMICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION — $951,845 · Community ImprovementMICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTI…LA VOICE — $862,228 · Community ImprovementLA VOICESAN DIEGO ORGANIZING PROJECT — $635,883 · Community ImprovementSAN DIEGO ORGANIZING P…GRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC — $538,582 · Community ImprovementGRANITE STATE ORGANIZI…+7 more — $582,927 · Community Improvement+7 moreFaith in Indiana — $1,920,883 · Human ServicesFaith in Indi…FORCE Detroit Inc — $937,715 · Human ServicesFORCE Detroit…ACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA — $927,074 · Human ServicesACTING IN COM…NM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe — $674,667 · Human ServicesNM Comunidade…VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC — $238,112 · Human ServicesNeighborhood Ministries Inc — $969,111 · ReligionNeighborh…ISAIAH — $750,000 · ReligionISAIAHFAITH IN NEW YORK — $701,481 · ReligionFAITH IN …FAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA — $545,109 · ReligionFAITH IN …FAITH IN TEXAS - PICO — $364,383 · ReligionFAITH IN …MISSION TALK INC — $229,190 · ReligionMISSION T…PICO California — $1,500,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $1,307,099 · Public Benefit+2 more — $95,000 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $1,766,408 · PhilanthropyPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE — $490,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $334,000 · Civil RightsFAITH IN NEW JERSEY — $313,442 · Civil RightsCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $290,011 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND — $146,478 · Civil Rights+2 more — $50,000 · Civil Rights
Other$18,131,909Community Improvement$7,995,395Human Services$4,698,451Religion$3,559,274Public Benefit$2,902,099Philanthropy$1,766,408Civil Rights$1,623,931

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC — $2,855,049 over 6y, 28% of budgetFaith in Indiana — $1,920,883 over 5y, 82% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $1,766,408 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTOGETHER COLORADO — $1,568,881 over 6y, 39% of budgetPICO California — $1,500,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $1,307,099 over 5y, 14% of budgetNeighborhood Ministries Inc — $969,111 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetMICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION — $951,845 over 5y, 91% of budgetFORCE Detroit Inc — $937,715 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA — $927,074 over 5y, 40% of budgetSACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER — $891,969 over 4y, 26% of budgetLA VOICE — $862,228 over 6y, 14% of budgetISAIAH — $750,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc — $702,980 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetFAITH IN NEW YORK — $701,481 over 6y, 59% of budgetNM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe — $674,667 over 6y, 23% of budgetSAN DIEGO ORGANIZING PROJECT — $635,883 over 4y, 32% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA — $545,109 over 6y, 39% of budgetGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC — $538,582 over 5y, 97% of budgetPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE — $490,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetLIVE FREE CHICAGO — $467,146 over 3y, 42% of budgetFAITH IN TEXAS - PICO — $364,383 over 4y, 25% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $334,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $290,011 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC — $238,112 over 6y, 41% of budgetMISSION TALK INC — $229,190 over 3y, 62% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $205,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAITH IN FLORIDA INC — $155,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $146,667 over 1y, 11% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND — $146,478 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK — $120,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetPeople Acting in Community Together — $96,049 over 2y, 19% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER — $95,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOne Voice — $85,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMemphis Artists for Change — $70,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetACCE Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPOWER CALIFORNIA — $31,365 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINSTITUTE OF THE BLACK WORLD 21ST CENTURY — $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetVirginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCORAZON AZ — $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $24,895 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetVOICE Buffalo Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetRochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society — $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE BORDER INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

NEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundTides FoundationProteus Fund IncAmalgamated Charitabl…PICO CaliforniaNeedmor Co the Northe…Windward FundThe Ford FoundationTides CenterCommon Counsel Founda…The California Endowm…
NEO Philanthropy IncNY49.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · PICO California · Needmor Co the Northern Trust Company · Windward Fund · The Ford Foundation · Tides Center · Common Counsel Foundation · The California Endowment

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Faith in Action Network funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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