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Family Values Work Action Inc

The mission of family values @ work action (fv@wa) is to support the eligible state coalitions in engaging historically disenfrachised voters in the movement for care and caregiving and other economic security issues through public education and civic engagement strategies.

$193k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$23k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$566kHuman Services$85kPublic Benefit$45kEmployment$43kCrime & Legal$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kPhilanthropy$23k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $137,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $192,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,000 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.
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$412k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAKLAND FORWARD ACTION FUND$22,500
NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION$20,000
MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTION$20,000
GA WE VOTE WE WIN$20,000
FAMILY FORWARD ACTION FUND$20,000
CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC$20,000
MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY$15,000
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 (FY21–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $35k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $30k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $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

ME
MN
WI
MI
NY
OR
OH
NJ
CA
MO
DC
HI
GA
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$714k · 10 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$714k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
-15%

Still filing today

90%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CA
    CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +4%
  • FF
    FAMILY FORWARD ACTION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +190%
  • MW
    MAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • JU
    JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE CAMPAIGN FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TM
    TAKEACTION MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -65%
  • WD
    WORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -15%
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
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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2
Womn Act

To advance equity and justice for all women through advocacy and collaboration.

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3
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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4
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
5
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
6
Working America Action

Working america action is organized for the purposes of economic justice and democracy

—
7
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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8
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
9
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
10
Action for Liberation

Michigan Liberation is dedicated to the leadership development of community members and creation of effective campaigns to advance racial, gender and economic justice in Michigan

Civil Rights
11
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
12
Missouri Jobs With Justice

Educate the community on workers' rights

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizen Action of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Michigan Organizing Project. 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

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES ADVOCACY: $187,800 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION: $81,500 · OtherNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTIONMAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY: $56,330 · OtherMAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC: $43,000 · Other9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INCMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $38,000 · OtherMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUNDJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE CAMPAIGN FUND: $25,000 · OtherJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE CAMPAIGN FUNDFAMILY FORWARD ACTION: $84,000 · Community ImprovementFAMILY FORWARD AC…We Vote We Win: $45,000 · Community ImprovementWe Vote We WinSisters Lead Sisters Vote Inc: $52,000 · Civil RightsSisters Lead…MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTION: $20,000 · Civil RightsMISSOURI JOB…WORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $17,870 · Civil RightsWORKERS DEFE…CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $85,107 · Human ServicesCITIZEN ACT…HAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK SPEAKS: $41,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $25,000 · Public BenefitMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $22,500 · Philanthropy
Other$431,630Community Improvement$129,000Civil Rights$89,870Human Services$85,107Public Safety & Disaster$41,000Public Benefit$25,000Philanthropy$22,500

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 budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $187,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $85,107 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFAMILY FORWARD ACTION: $84,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION: $81,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetMAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY: $56,330 over 3y, 21% of budgetWe Vote We Win: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC: $43,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $38,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $22,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $17,870 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

Center for Community …Sixteen Thirty FundPeople's ActionCommunications Worker…All Hands on Deck Net…Tides Foundation
Center for Community Change ActionDC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Center for Community Change Action · Sixteen Thirty Fund · People's Action · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides 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 Family Values Work Action Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Family Values Work Action Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • New Jersey Citizen Action: 37% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Family Values Work Action Inc?

Find your warmest path to Family Values Work 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 15 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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