· Public charity
Forward Action Fund
The FORWARD ACTION FUND is organized for the promotion of social welfare including but not limited to economic, gender, climate, racial, health and social justice by: 1) advocating for legislation, regulations, and government programs related to policies that deliver concrete outcomes for people in this country; 2) educating the public…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $473k
- $250k+12 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAJORITY FORWARD | $8,800,000 |
| SOMOS PAC | $5,813,205 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR A FAMILY FRIENDLY ECONOMY PAC | $2,228,320 |
| MAP USA | $2,200,000 |
| OHIO FAMILIES FOR DEMOCRACY | $2,083,713 |
| STOP POLITICAL CORRUPTION INC | $1,500,000 |
| PROMOTING AMERICAN VALUES FOR EVERYONE INC | $1,000,000 |
| MAKE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST | $400,000 |
| FREEDOM AND ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT | $320,000 |
| OHIO CITIZEN ACTION | $310,000 |
| COMMUNITIES UNITED ACTION FUND | $300,000 |
| FIGHT BIG PHARMA INC | $250,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND | $200,000 |
| BLACK LEADERSHIP ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE | $150,000 |
| NORTH MAIN STREET FUND | $122,736 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +652% since the first grant, against +114% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPSOMOS PAC4× · 2021–2024 · $6.4M
- FFFAMILY FRIENDLY ACTION PAC4× · 2020–2024 · $3.7M
- CUCOMMUNITIES UNITED ACTION FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $333k · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- HMHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +289%
- BPBLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION EDUCATION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $816k · revenue +786%
- AVAmerica Votesgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue +53%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…
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To advance pro-growth, pro-worker and pro-american public policy through rigorous policy research, advocacy, and public awareness campaigns.
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Issue one is the leading crosspartisan political reform organization that educates the public, engages capitol hill, and advocates for solutions to fix our broken political system.
The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Citizen Action and the most unlike its peers is Fight Big Pharma Inc. 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.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAJORITY FORWARD ↗
- Who funds MAP USA ↗
- Who funds STOP POLITICAL CORRUPTION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD ↗
- Who funds BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds America Votes ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRNESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Make North Carolina First ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds Freedom and Accountability Project ↗
- Who funds TIOGA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO CITIZEN ACTION ↗
- Who funds FIGHT BIG PHARMA INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORKER POWER ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BLACK LEADERSHIP ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds NORTH MAIN STREET FUND ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY NEVADA ↗
- Who funds FLORIDIANS PROTECTING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RISING INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: America Votes · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Advocacy · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · North Fund · Our American Future Action · Hopewell Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Wellness Advocacy Fund · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund
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 Forward Action Fund 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.
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.
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