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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 FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$8.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Benefit$34MCivil Rights$5.4MEmployment$995kCommunity Improvement$395kEnvironment$175kHuman Services$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
  • $250k+7 grants · $15M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PAC FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE$8,160,000
FORWARD ACTION FUND$3,200,000
HEARTLAND SIGNAL LLC$1,575,000
MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA$1,000,000
BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION$750,000
KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE$395,000
AMERICANS FOR CONTRACEPTION$250,000
COMMITTEE ON STATES$100,000
AMERICA WORKS USA$50,000
COMMUNITY NEWS CENTER$50,000
ROAD TO MICHIGAN'S FUTURE$50,000
REAL RESULTS FOR PENNSYLVANIA$50,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC$50,000
VIRGINIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH$26,000
KATIE HOBBS INAUGURAL FUND$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%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

NH
WI
MI
MA
PA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 5 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +155% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$21M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+155%
+39%

Still filing today

60%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $88k · revenue ×16
  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $74k · revenue +155%
  • SL
    STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT
    2× · 2022–2023 · $38k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • AF
    AB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5.1M · revenue ×12 · 85% of their budget
  • MD
    MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2023 · $4.4M
  • NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
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
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
2
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
3
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
4
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
5
Actblue Civics Inc

To develop and promote innovative fundraising tools and practices that utilize internet technology among social welfare organizations for the purpose of increasing grassroots engagement in social welfare activities, as well as…

Unclassified
6
Voteamerica

The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.

Civil Rights
7
Democracy Forward

See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.

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8
The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives

The commonwealth foundation transforms free-market ideas into public policies, empowering all pennsylvanians to thrive.

Public Benefit
9
Register America

The organization is founded for social welfare purposes, including assisting with voter registration and advocating for policies which lead to increased voter registration in the united states.

—
10
Center for American Progress

The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…

Civil Rights
11
Americans for Public Trust

The Organization's mission is to restore trust in government by holding officials and groups accountable for corrupt and unethical behavior through investigation, legal action, and reporting.

Arts & Culture
12
Media Matters Action Network

Media matters action network was organized for the purpose of monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the u.s. media.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Annie's List Training and Engagement Fund. 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 32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PAC FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE: $19,156,785 · OtherTHE PAC FOR AMERICA'S FUTUREMICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE: $4,420,000 · OtherMICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEEHEARTLAND SIGNAL LLC: $1,875,000 · OtherHEARTLAND SIGNAL LLCWORKING AMERICA: $944,500 · Other+9 more: $1,308,500 · OtherAB FOUNDATION: $5,125,000 · Public BenefitAB FOUNDATION+2 more: $87,500 · Public BenefitFORWARD ACTION FUND: $3,200,000 · Civil RightsFORWARD ACTIO…NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWER…ACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $250,000 · Civil Rights+7 more: $561,661 · Civil Rights+7 moreSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $2,000,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $125,000 · EnvironmentMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $1,000,000 · EducationKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $395,000 · Community ImprovementAnnie's List Training and Engagement Fund: $20,000 · Community ImprovementWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human Services
Other$27,704,785Public Benefit$5,212,500Civil Rights$5,011,661Environment$2,125,000Education$1,000,000Community Improvement$415,000Human Services$50,000

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 budgetAB FOUNDATION: $5,125,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWORKING AMERICA: $944,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION: $750,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROMOTE THE VOTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION: $87,935 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $73,726 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREAL RESULTS FOR PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICA WORKS USA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $37,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKATIE HOBBS INAUGURAL FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetAnnie's List Training and Engagement Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesHopewell FundGlobal Impact Social …North FundTides FoundationNEO Philanthropy Acti…Open Society Action F…Advocacy Action Fund …Strategic Victory FundOur American Future A…Way to Win Action Fun…
Sixteen Thirty FundDC33.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%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
    2get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Future Now Action?

    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.

    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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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