· Public charity
Groundwork Action Fund
To support community organizers, advocates, and activists working year-round in places traditionally under-resourced, excluded, and ignored; to invest in hyperlocal efforts that build sustainable political infrastructure, engage and educate voters, and build power for the underrepresented and disenfranchised; to advocate for a more…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $166,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $238,551 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $72,151 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVATION WEST VIRGINIA INC | $75,000 |
| OKLAHOMA VOTER ALLIANCE INC | $36,000 |
| ALABAMA VALUES PROGRESS | $25,000 |
| FOR WEST VIRGINIA'S FUTURE | $15,000 |
| THIRD SPACE | $10,250 |
| WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUB INC | $5,150 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Developing a nonprofit advocacy infrastructure.
WV Cant Wait Mutual Aid works to support grassroots mutual aid efforts community organizing and civic engagement throughout West Virginia. The organization provides training coaching strategy support convenings and educational workshops…
The organization provides training and technical assistance to water and wastewater utility providers throughout the State of West Virginia through a variety of programs.
The organization advocates for social welfare and political issues locally and nationally that benefit communities as a whole; such as healthcare availability, quality public education, fair wages, and secure retirement.
New Virginia Majority is a grassroots organization that works with low income people in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education and advocacy.
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.
The west virginia jobs creator alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting policy initiatives that encourage and support job creators throughout the state. our mission is to spearhead policy concepts that lead to the…
Go West Virginia, Inc. is dedicated to advocating and educating the public on issues including economic growth and job creation. We will develop and advance an agenda for West Virginia to promote real policy solutions to create jobs,…
WVASF coordinates research, education, advocacy, and coalition building on issues related to asset building and economic stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Voter Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Groundwork Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CONSERVATION WEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA VOTER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WV Cant Wait Votes a Non-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Voter Education Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WOMEN OF COLOR ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI WORKERS CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds For West Virginia's Future Inc ↗
- Who funds Third Space Foundation ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUB INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Groundwork Action Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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