How much does Future Forward USA Action give?

Future Forward USA Action reported 84 grants totaling $469,257,514 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Future Forward USA Action fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (77%), Environment (6%), Civil Rights (4%).

Who are Future Forward USA Action's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Ff PAC ($275M), America Votes ($34M), America Votes Education Fund ($19M).

Does Future Forward USA Action fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Future Forward USA Action?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Open Society Action Fund Inc.

Where is Future Forward USA Action based?

Future Forward USA Action is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Future Forward USA Action

FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION has the mission to create a stronger american democracy and advocate for common sense solutions.

$469M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 84
Grants FY2024: 7
Organizations funded FY2023: 86%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $750,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $251,500,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 28; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 15
Total assets, FY2024: $27M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations Future Forward USA Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	71	$421M	89%
FY2023	7	$9.6M	86%
FY2022	28	$16M	96%
FY2021	5	$6.1M	80%
FY2019	1	$442k	n/a

99% 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$387MEnvironment$32MCivil Rights$21MPhilanthropy$19MEducation$17MArts & Culture$15MHuman Services$5.9MCommunity Improvement$2.9MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ff PAC	$275,282,466	5	n/a
America Votes	$34,190,000	1	45%
America Votes Education Fund	$19,250,000	1	n/a
Working America Education Fund	$15,320,000	1	33%
Courier Newsroom Inc	$13,597,750	1	n/a
Rapid Resist Action	$9,400,000	1	52%
Workmoney Inc	$5,850,000	1	6%
Working America Action	$5,000,000	1	n/a
Organizing Empowerment Project Inc	$5,000,000	1	33%
CounterAct Fund	$4,800,000	1	35%

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All grantees of Future Forward USA Action by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ff PAC	$275,282,466	5	n/a
America Votes	$34,190,000	1	45%
America Votes Education Fund	$19,250,000	1	n/a
Working America Education Fund	$15,320,000	1	33%
Courier Newsroom Inc	$13,597,750	1	n/a
Rapid Resist Action	$9,400,000	1	52%
Workmoney Inc	$5,850,000	1	6%
Working America Action	$5,000,000	1	n/a
Organizing Empowerment Project Inc	$5,000,000	1	33%
CounterAct Fund	$4,800,000	1	35%
Way to Win Action Fund Inc	$4,375,000	2	14%
Vote Rev Action Fund	$3,600,000	2	40%
Turnout Action Fund	$3,410,000	1	63%
Voto Latino Inc	$3,000,000	1	15%
The Act Now Project	$2,650,000	2	55%
Black Progressive Action Coalition	$2,500,000	1	77%
Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc	$2,300,000	1	6%
Bbt Inc	$2,250,000	1	6%
Potential Energy Action Network Inc	$2,100,000	1	66%
Development Now for Chicago	$2,000,000	1	2%
The Future Now Institute	$2,000,000	1	18%
Focus for Democracy Action	$2,000,000	1	13%
Good Neighbor Fund	$1,900,000	1	n/a
The Voter Participation Center	$1,575,000	2	2%
Way to Rise	$1,325,000	1	10%
Voter Formation Project	$1,250,000	1	19%
Aapi Victory Power Fund	$1,225,000	1	37%
Reproductive Freedom for All	$1,200,000	2	0%
Future Now Action	$1,200,000	1	6%
Accelerate Change Inc	$1,150,000	1	4%
All Americans Vote	$1,100,000	1	8%
Voteamerica	$1,100,000	1	10%
Civics Unplugged Inc	$1,000,000	1	31%
Center for Community Change Action	$1,000,000	2	7%
Story Network Foundation	$1,000,000	1	32%
The Voter Project	$900,000	1	14%
Head Count Inc	$850,000	1	6%
Betches Media LLC	$750,000	1	n/a
Equis Institute	$750,000	1	6%
Fair Democracy	$750,000	1	8%
America Works USA	$680,000	1	2%
Progressive Victory Action	$565,000	1	35%
Free Our Vote Inc	$550,000	1	33%
Center for Voter Information	$525,000	1	1%
Indivisible Project	$500,000	1	4%
More Than a Vote	$500,000	1	50%
Emilys List Action	$500,000	1	47%
Working Families Organization Inc	$500,000	1	1%
Rise United Network Inc	$500,000	1	56%
Congressional Integrity Project	$475,000	1	22%
Americans for Contraception	$450,000	1	4%
Ohio Alliance for Community Education	$379,414	1	n/a
Ready Campaigns Inc	$355,000	1	16%
Civic Nation Action	$350,000	1	78%
One Apia Nevada	$335,000	1	8%
Indian American Impact	$330,000	1	22%
Mi Familia Vota	$320,600	1	7%
Asian Pacific Islander Political Al Liance	$300,000	1	n/a
Equislabs	$300,000	2	10%
Southeast Asian Action Inc	$300,000	1	34%
Watering Hole Media Action	$250,000	1	15%
UltraViolet Action	$250,000	1	11%
Moveon Political Action	$250,000	1	n/a
Priorities USA Foundation	$250,000	1	1%
Nextgen Education Fund	$250,000	1	1%
MoveOnorg Civic Action	$250,000	1	3%
Nevada Alliance	$250,000	1	7%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$250,000	1	0%
Vote to Live Action Fund	$250,000	1	n/a
Faith Forward	$250,000	1	95%
Goodpower Education Fund Inc	$214,750	1	1%
Center for Civic Information	$214,050	1	54%
Wake Up & Vote	$200,000	1	66%
The Hometown Project Inc	$200,000	1	21%
Defending Democracy Together	$200,000	1	1%
National Conference on Citizenship	$150,000	1	2%
Latino Victory Project	$150,000	1	11%
Texas Blue Action Fund	$150,000	1	n/a
Campaign to End COVID Now	$126,500	1	n/a
Care in Action Inc	$101,850	1	1%
Emgage Action Inc	$100,000	1	6%
Black Men Vote Civic Action Fund	$100,000	1	2%
The Partnership Project Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Collective Impact Action	$80,000	1	14%
Sister District Action Network	$60,000	1	7%
Organize Pennsylvania	$55,000	1	1%
Pennsylvania Stands Up Inc	$55,000	1	3%
Casa in Action Inc	$55,000	1	2%
1hood Power	$55,000	1	22%
Move Texas Action Fund	$55,000	1	1%
Our Voice Our Vote Arizona	$55,000	1	2%
Texas Freedom Network	$55,000	1	2%
Asian American Advocacy Fund Inc	$55,000	1	2%
Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc	$55,000	1	2%
Make the Road Action Inc	$55,000	1	1%
Carolina Federation	$55,000	1	3%
Generator Collective	$50,000	1	21%
Indivisible Tohono	$50,000	1	n/a
Progressive Turnout Project	$50,000	1	n/a
ForwardTN	$38,000	1	n/a
Tides Advocacy	$30,000	1	0%

Future Forward USA Action supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 86.

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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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC98.7× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Our American Future Action · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Women Donors Network Action · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc

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.

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About Future Forward USA Action

How much does Future Forward USA Action give?: Future Forward USA Action reported 84 grants totaling $469,257,514 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Future Forward USA Action fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (77%), Environment (6%), Civil Rights (4%).
Who are Future Forward USA Action's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Ff PAC ($275M), America Votes ($34M), America Votes Education Fund ($19M).
Does Future Forward USA Action fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Future Forward USA Action?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Open Society Action Fund Inc.
Where is Future Forward USA Action based?: Future Forward USA Action is based in DC.