How much does Groundswell Action Fund give?

Groundswell Action Fund reported 44 grants totaling $750,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Groundswell Action Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (49%), Public Benefit (29%), Community Improvement (6%).

Who are Groundswell Action Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tides Advocacy ($2.0M), Care in Action Inc ($640k), Florida Rising Inc ($610k).

Does Groundswell Action Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Groundswell Action Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include All Hands on Deck Network Inc, Tides Advocacy, Sixteen Thirty Fund.

Where is Groundswell Action Fund based?

Groundswell Action Fund is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Groundswell Action Fund

organizing, civic engagement, leadership development, and strategic electoral work toward a multi-racial feminist democracy rooted in care and collective self-determination.

$750k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 44
Grants FY2025: 44
Organizations funded FY2024: 11%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $75,000
Organizations funded a year: 15 to 44; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 21
Total assets, FY2025: $1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Groundswell Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureOther

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
FY2025still arriving	44	$750k	5%
FY2024	44	$3.2M	11%
FY2023	41	$2.6M	12%
FY2022	43	$3.7M	33%
FY2021	41	$2.5M	2%
FY2020	42	$3.6M	43%
FY2019	27	$1.6M	22%
FY2018	15	$885k	27%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$9.4MPublic Benefit$5.7MCommunity Improvement$1.2MEmployment$655kPhilanthropy$455kEducation$410kEnvironment$410kArts & Culture$388kOther$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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tides Advocacy	$2,032,500	9	0%
Care in Action Inc	$640,000	8	4%
Florida Rising Inc	$610,000	9	7%
Virginia New Majority Education Fund	$565,000	7	3%
New Georgia Project Inc	$550,000	5	9%
Working Families Organization Inc	$527,500	7	0%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund	$510,000	6	3%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network Action	$487,500	9	25%
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	$470,000	8	1%
Alliance for Youth Action	$465,000	6	4%

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All grantees of Groundswell Action Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tides Advocacy	$2,032,500	9	0%
Care in Action Inc	$640,000	8	4%
Florida Rising Inc	$610,000	9	7%
Virginia New Majority Education Fund	$565,000	7	3%
New Georgia Project Inc	$550,000	5	9%
Working Families Organization Inc	$527,500	7	0%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund	$510,000	6	3%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network Action	$487,500	9	25%
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	$470,000	8	1%
Alliance for Youth Action	$465,000	6	4%
Mijente	$445,000	8	8%
Asian American Advocacy Fund Inc	$435,000	6	5%
Center for Empowered Politics	$415,000	6	5%
Living United for Change in Arizona	$397,500	6	2%
Nm Native Vote	$357,500	7	18%
Washington Community Action Network	$357,500	7	3%
Black Progressive Action Coal	$355,000	4	n/a
Equality Nc	$327,500	6	31%
Our Voice Our Vote Arizona	$327,500	6	4%
Voces de la Frontera Action Inc	$327,500	6	10%
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc	$320,000	4	4%
Organizers in the Land of Enchantment	$317,500	6	6%
Asian Pacific Islander Political Al Liance	$312,500	6	n/a
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc	$310,000	4	4%
Mothering Justice Action Fund	$307,500	6	58%
Cultural Engagement Laboratory	$297,500	6	22%
Jobs with Justice San Francisco	$290,000	5	20%
New American Leaders Action Fund Inc	$277,500	6	78%
Sisters Lead Sisters Vote Inc	$277,500	6	86%
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights	$275,000	5	1%
Black Youth Project 100 NFP	$240,000	5	19%
West Virginia Free Incorporated	$240,000	5	7%
One Fair Wage Inc	$240,000	3	2%
The Equity Alliance	$240,000	4	18%
Freedom Action Now	$237,500	6	8%
The Equity Alliance Fund	$230,000	4	18%
Californians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund	$230,000	4	51%
One Fair Wage Action Inc	$230,000	4	12%
Western Native Voice Education Project	$210,000	4	4%
Six Action	$200,000	3	20%
Black Women for Wellness Action Project	$197,500	4	42%
Color Action Fund	$197,500	4	15%
Fund for Social Impact	$190,000	3	72%
Trans United	$170,000	3	n/a
Texas Organizing Project	$165,000	3	3%
Repower Fund	$165,000	3	1%
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights	$162,500	4	3%
Black Women for Wellness	$162,500	4	3%
Mississippi Votes Action Fund Corporation	$157,500	4	39%
Jobs with Justice	$150,000	3	15%
Forward Together	$150,000	3	1%
All In Action Fund	$150,000	3	12%
Southwest Public Workers' Union	$135,000	3	89%
La Fuerza NC	$132,500	4	42%
United for Respect	$112,500	4	18%
Western Native Voice Inc	$112,500	4	7%
Grassroots Global Justice Action Fund	$112,500	4	33%
Mijente Support Committee	$105,000	1	2%
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund	$100,000	1	1%
New Virginia Majority	$90,000	2	1%
Opportunity 2 Restore	$77,500	2	25%
New Georgia Project Action Fund	$75,000	1	n/a
Forward Together Action	$70,000	1	17%
Fortaleza	$70,000	2	93%
Ncaat in Action	$65,000	2	1%
National Lgbtq Task Force Action Fund Inc	$65,000	2	13%
New Georgia Project Action Fd	$60,000	1	n/a
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Roc Action	$50,000	1	n/a
Movement Strategy Center Action Fund	$30,000	1	n/a
Powerpac Org	$30,000	1	n/a
Black Feminist Future Action Fund	$15,000	1	n/a
Black to the Future Action Fu	$15,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($225k), not named here.

Groundswell Action Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 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 63.

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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.

All Hands on Deck Network IncMA74.8× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Women Donors Network Action · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · State Engagement Fund · Center for Community Change Action · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation 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 Groundswell Action Fund

How much does Groundswell Action Fund give?: Groundswell Action Fund reported 44 grants totaling $750,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Groundswell Action Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (49%), Public Benefit (29%), Community Improvement (6%).
Who are Groundswell Action Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tides Advocacy ($2.0M), Care in Action Inc ($640k), Florida Rising Inc ($610k).
Does Groundswell Action Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Groundswell Action Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include All Hands on Deck Network Inc, Tides Advocacy, Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Where is Groundswell Action Fund based?: Groundswell Action Fund is based in CA.