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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 FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k43 grants · $675k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$15,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tides Advocacy Fund$75,000
Working Families Organization$37,500
Asian American Advocacy Fund$22,500
Equality NC$15,000
Washington CAN$15,000
All in All Action Fund$15,000
Living United for Change inAZ$15,000
NM Native Vote$15,000
COLOR Action Fund$15,000
Jobs with Justice$15,000
Organizers in Land of Enchant$15,000
Western Native Voice$15,000
One Fair Wage Action$15,000
Opportunity 2 Restore$15,000
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Living United for Change inAZ: $80k → 11%RE Power: $75k → 14%APEN Action: $80k → 12%CHIRLA Action Fund: $80k → 14%NCAAT in Action: $50k → 8%Living United for Change inAZ: $80k → 11%RE Power: $75k → 14%APEN Action: $50k → 12%CHIRLA Action Fund: $75k → 14%NCAAT in Action: $15k → 8%Living United for Change inAZ: $63k → 11%APEN Action: $50k → 12%Living United for Change inAZ: $50k → 11%APEN Action: $50k → 12%CHIRLA Action Fund: $60k → 14%Living United for Change inAZ: $50k → 11%Forward Together Action: $70k → 10%Living United for Change inAZ: $15k → 11%APEN Action: $63k → 10%APEN Action: $60k → 10%APEN Action: $60k → 10%CHIRLA Action Fund: $15k → 14%APEN Action: $60k → 10%APEN Action: $15k → 10%Jobs with Justice: $60k → 14%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

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MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
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AR
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NC
DC
LA
MS
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FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 63 repeat orgs$600k to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
9

Total granted

$19M
$570k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+38%

Still filing today

89%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationEmploymentOther
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

  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +130%
  • CI
    Care in Action Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +448%
  • FR
    FLORIDA RISING INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $610k · revenue +431%

Funded once

  • MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue +38%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +136%
  • NG
    NEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue ×18
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
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
3
Our Voice Nuestra Voz

Our Voice Nuestra Voice is a nation-building organization, anchoring ancestry while building Black and Brown solidarity in New Orleans. We remember our shared culture and language, reconnect to the land, and organize our community around…

Human Services
4
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
5
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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6
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
7
Women for Political Action Change Education & Advo

We holistically invest in the leadership and political power of young women and trans & non-binary folks.

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8
Colorado People's Action

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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9
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
10
Black in Action Collective

Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities

Civil Rights
11
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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12
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repower Fund; the most unlike its peers is Fortaleza. 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

68 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. 68 of the 75 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/68
Grantees still filing
41/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Care in Action Inc: $640,000 · Civil RightsCare in Action IncFLORIDA RISING INC: $610,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INCNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $550,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INCWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $527,500 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INCNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $470,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION: $465,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC: $435,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $415,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY NC: $327,500 · Civil RightsOUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA: $327,500 · Civil RightsVOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION INC: $327,500 · Civil Rights+24 more: $4,362,500 · Civil Rights+24 moreTIDES ADVOCACY: $2,032,500 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYNM NATIVE VOTE: $357,500 · OtherNM NATIVE VOTEWashington Community Action Network: $357,500 · OtherWashington Community Action NetworkBlack Progressive Action Coal: $355,000 · OtherBlack Progressive Action CoalBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $320,000 · OtherASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER POLITICAL AL LIANCE: $312,500 · OtherMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $307,500 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA FREE INCORPORATED: $240,000 · OtherONE FAIR WAGE ACTION INC: $230,000 · OtherBlack Progressive Action Coal: $225,000 · OtherJobs with Justice San Francisco: $290,000 · Other+14 more: $1,375,000 · Other+14 moreAsian Pacific Environmental Network Action: $487,500 · Human ServicesLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $397,500 · Human ServicesCalifornians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund: $230,000 · Human ServicesREPOWER FUND: $165,000 · Human ServicesFORWARD TOGETHER ACTION: $70,000 · Human ServicesNCAAT IN ACTION: $65,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $510,000 · Community ImprovementMIJENTE: $445,000 · Community ImprovementORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: $317,500 · Community ImprovementWestern Native Voice Inc: $112,500 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $565,000 · EducationCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $162,500 · HealthBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $162,500 · HealthForward Together: $150,000 · HealthSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $410,000 · Environment
Civil Rights$9,457,500Other$6,402,500Human Services$1,415,000Community Improvement$1,385,000Education$565,000Health$475,000Environment$410,000

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 budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $2,032,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCare in Action Inc: $640,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $610,000 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $565,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $550,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $527,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $510,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network Action: $487,500 over 9y, 25% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $470,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION: $465,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetMIJENTE: $445,000 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC: $435,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $415,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $410,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $397,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetNM NATIVE VOTE: $357,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetWashington Community Action Network: $357,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetEQUALITY NC: $327,500 over 6y, 31% of budgetOUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA: $327,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION INC: $327,500 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $320,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: $317,500 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $310,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $307,500 over 6y, 58% of budgetCULTURAL ENGAGEMENT LABORATORY: $297,500 over 6y, 22% of budgetJobs with Justice San Francisco: $290,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetNEW AMERICAN LEADERS ACTION FUND INC: $277,500 over 6y, 78% of budgetSisters Lead Sisters Vote Inc: $277,500 over 6y, 86% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $275,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBlack Youth Project 100 NFP: $240,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA FREE INCORPORATED: $240,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC: $240,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE EQUITY ALLIANCE: $240,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetFreedom Action Now: $237,500 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetTHE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND: $230,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetCalifornians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund: $230,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE ACTION INC: $230,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetWESTERN NATIVE VOICE EDUCATION PROJECT: $210,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSIX ACTION: $200,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ACTION PROJECT: $197,500 over 4y, 42% of budgetCOLOR ACTION FUND: $197,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetFund for Social Impact: $190,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $165,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetREPOWER FUND: $165,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $162,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $162,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VOTES ACTION FUND CORPORATION: $157,500 over 4y, 39% of budgetJobs with Justice: $150,000 over 3y, 15% 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.

  • Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds Care in Action Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Asian Pacific Environmental Network Action ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION ↗
  • Who funds MIJENTE ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS ↗
  • Who funds SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ↗
  • Who funds LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds NM NATIVE VOTE ↗
  • Who funds Washington Community Action Network ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY NC ↗
  • Who funds OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds VOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Black Voters Matter Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT ↗
  • Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds Jobs with Justice San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICAN LEADERS ACTION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Sisters Lead Sisters Vote Inc ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds Black Youth Project 100 NFP ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA FREE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAIR WAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Freedom Action Now ↗
  • Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Californians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAIR WAGE ACTION INC ↗

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 Net…Tides AdvocacySixteen Thirty FundOpen Society Action F…Way to Win Action Fun…America VotesWomen Donors Network …Tides FoundationNEO Philanthropy Acti…State Engagement FundCenter for Community …Instructional Telecom…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Groundswell Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Groundswell Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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, FY20–24
    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.

    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 75 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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