Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Future Now Action
FUTURE NOW ACTION is a social welfare organization that pushes progress towards the america's goals policy framework with a report card on each state and through innovative cost-effective strategies with legislators, the media, partner organizations and the public.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Future Now Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $16M | 88% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $4.0M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $17M | 82% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $1.8M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $800k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $250k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The PAC for America's Future | $19,156,785 | 6 | n/a |
| Ab Foundation | $5,125,000 | 1 | 85% |
| Michigan Democratic State Central Committee | $4,420,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Forward Action Fund | $3,200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Heartland Signal LLC | $1,875,000 | 2 | n/a |
| NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Media Matters for America | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Working America | $944,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Black Progressive Action Coalition | $750,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kansas Values Institute | $395,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 30 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Future Now Action supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Hopewell Fund · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · North Fund · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Advocacy Action Fund Inc · Strategic Victory Fund · Our American Future Action · Way to Win Action Fund Inc
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Future Now Action 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.
About Future Now Action
- How much does Future Now Action give?
- Future Now Action reported 16 grants totaling $15,738,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Future Now Action fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (82%), Civil Rights (13%), Employment (2%).
- Who are Future Now Action's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The PAC for America's Future ($19M), Ab Foundation ($5.1M), Michigan Democratic State Central Committee ($4.4M).
- Does Future Now Action fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Future Now Action?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Hopewell Fund.
- Where is Future Now Action based?
- Future Now Action is based in DC.
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