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· Public charity

For Our Future Action Fund

To mobilize and empower individuals and community-based organizations driving change and advancing the collective agenda of economic prosperity for workers and working families.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.3MCivil Rights$1.6MEmployment$390kCrime & Legal$266kCommunity Improvement$183kArts & Culture$70kEnvironment$65kPhilanthropy$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,010,048
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOR OUR FUTURE$2,010,048
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MI FAMILIA VOTA: $125k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP: $58k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA UNITED: $65k → 11%API PA: $25k → 22%TIDES ADVOCACY: $65k → 10%MAKE THE ROAD ACTION: $50k → 20%COLLECTIVE FUTURE: $25k → 14%FOR OUR FUTURE AF FLORIDA: $635k → 11%VOTAR ES PODER PAC: $75k → 13%EMGAGE ACTION INC: $50k → 16%MOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $71k → 8%CLEAN WATER ACTION: $65k → 10%LIBERATION PACBLMMI: $40k → 16%MICHIGAN ACTION: $110k → 21%WISCONSIN HERITAGE INC: $35k → 7%LEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION AF: $80k → 17%RURALVOTEORG: $100k → 15%THE COALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN: $145k → 17%OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $25k → 19%ONE APIA NEVADA: $70k → 13%CASA IN ACTION PAC: $50k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC: $8k → 9%ONE PA: $50k → 11%WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION: $50k → 20%EQUAL GROUND ACTION FUND: $206k → 14%ALIANZA FOR PROGRESS: $38k → 13%PONTIAC POLICY ACTION FUND: $41k → 8%ACTION FOR LIBERATION: $65k → 21%WISCONSIN HERITAGE INC: $35k → 7%WISDOM ACTION NETWORK: $60k → 17%PROGRESSOHIOORG: $53k → 15%ONE APIA NEVADA: $20k → 13%PA UNITED: $15k → 11%FOR OUR FUTURE: $2.0M → 14%UNITED FOR PROGRESS: $113k → 13%LGBT DETROIT: $43k → 21%FORWARD JUSTICE: $810k → 15%WORKING AMERICA: $145k → 14%UNIDOS US ACTION FUND: $50k → 14%WORKING AMERICA: $100k → 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

WI
MI
NY
NV
OH
PA
CA
MD
AZ
DC
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.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$745k · 6 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +904% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
27

Total granted

$745k
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+904%
-16%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’24
Civil RightsEmploymentInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $245k · revenue +305%
  • OA
    ONE APIA NEVADA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $90k · revenue ×18
  • PU
    Pennsylvania United
    2× · 2019–2020 · $80k · revenue +904%

Funded once

  • FJ
    FORWARD JUSTICE
    one grant, 2022 · $810k
  • FO
    FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND PC
    one grant, 2020 · $635k
  • EG
    EQUAL GROUND ACTION FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $206k · revenue -99%
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
Progressive Workers Coalition

To ensure that working class people are educated on their voting rights. The coalition engages in mobilization and educational information sessions to ensure that all workers voices are heard.

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2
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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3
Organizing for Action

Organizing for action (ofa) is a non-partisan, issue advocacy organization committed to growing the grassroots movement by training, educating, and activating civically engaged community members across the country. as a grassroots driven…

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4
America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement
5
Ohio Womens Alliance Action Fund

The purpose of the Ohio Womens Alliance Action Fund is to build capacity for women, femmes, and gender-expansive folksparticularly Black womento determine the lives they want for themselves, their families, and their communities through…

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6
Accion Politica Pcunista Dba Pcun

To promote civic participation.

Arts & Culture
7
Avanzamos Unidos

The mission of Avanzamos Unidos is to grow Latine political power in the state of Ohio. We are building a multi-class, multi-generational grassroots community organization that harnesses the collective political power of the Latinx/a/o/e…

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8
Action Now

To fight for racial, economic and social justice for working families. The Organization works for affordable housing, stopping foreclosures, and predatory lending; access to quality health care and education; and living wage jobs. The…

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9
Pa Alliance Action

The PA Alliance Action seeks to advocate at the state level for democracy reform through grassroots activities and support of like-minded organizations on behalf of and in support of all Pennsylvanians, in particular historically…

Civil Rights
10
Ohio Womens Alliance

The Ohio Womens Alliance is a statewide membership of grassroots leaders, organizers, community builders and activists creating a better Ohio for all through a reproductive justice lens.

Community Improvement
11
Pittsburgh United

Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the

Community Improvement
12
Our Revolution

Organizing a progressive political movement powerful enough to make sure our government stands on the side of working people, not the wealthy few.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Liberation Policy Action Cente. 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

27 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. 27 of the 35 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
10/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOR OUR FUTURE: $2,010,048 · OtherFOR OUR FUTUREFORWARD JUSTICE: $810,000 · OtherFORWARD JUSTICEFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND PC: $634,641 · OtherFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND PCWORKING AMERICA: $245,000 · OtherCASA IN ACTION PAC INC: $195,000 · Other+17 more: $1,048,013 · Other+17 moreEQUAL GROUND ACTION FUND INC: $205,860 · Civil RightsEQUAL GROUND …MI FAMILIA VOTA: $125,369 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA VO…Pennsylvania United: $80,000 · Civil RightsPennsylvania …ACTION FOR LIBERATION: $65,000 · Civil RightsACTION FOR LI…WISDOM ACTION NETWORK INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsWISDOM ACTION…ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 · Civil RightsORGANIZE PENN…WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMIL…MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsMAKE THE ROAD…THE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $25,000 · Civil RightsNE OHIO CHAPTER OF THE COALITION OF THE LABOR UNION WOMEN CLU: $145,120 · EmploymentONE APIA NEVADA: $90,000 · InternationalTIDES FOUNDATION: $65,000 · PhilanthropyPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC: $65,000 · Community Improvement
Other$4,942,702Civil Rights$711,229Employment$145,120International$90,000Philanthropy$65,000Community Improvement$65,000

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 budgetWORKING AMERICA: $245,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEQUAL GROUND ACTION FUND INC: $205,860 over 1y, 23% of budgetNE OHIO CHAPTER OF THE COALITION OF THE LABOR UNION WOMEN CLU: $145,120 over 1y, 51% of budgetMI FAMILIA VOTA: $125,369 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetONE APIA NEVADA: $90,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetPennsylvania United: $80,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC: $80,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $71,480 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER ACTION: $65,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetACTION FOR LIBERATION: $65,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWISDOM ACTION NETWORK INC: $60,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetProgressohio org: $52,500 over 1y, 61% of budgetUNIDOSUS ACTION FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmgage Action Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLGBT DETROIT MOBILIZATION: $43,333 over 1y, 29% of budgetLIBERATION POLICY ACTION CENTE: $40,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetAlianza For progress inc: $37,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $25,000 over 1y, 10% 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.

America VotesSixteen Thirty FundAll Hands on Deck Net…Tides AdvocacyOpen Society Action F…Pro-Democracy CampaignTides FoundationCenter for Community …NEO Philanthropy Acti…Way to Win Action Fun…Clean and Prosperous …Future Forward USA Ac…
America VotesDC56.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: America Votes · Sixteen Thirty Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Tides Foundation · Center for Community Change Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Clean and Prosperous America · Future Forward USA Action

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 For Our Future Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from For Our Future Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%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
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 35 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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