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House Majority Forward
HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD is a progressive, non-profit organization committed to promoting economic growth and opportunity, justice, environmental stewardship, and democracy in the united states of america.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HMP | $38,500,000 |
| AMERICA VOTES | $18,150,000 |
| GIFFORDS | $3,320,000 |
| 314 ACTION FUND | $2,500,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR CONTRACEPTION | $1,500,000 |
| DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO | $1,000,000 |
| CLEAR CHOICE ACTION INC | $500,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +430% since the first grant, against +202% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HHMP5× · 2020–2024 · $65M
- AVAmerica Votes3× · 2020–2024 · $24M · revenue +495%
- AFAMERICANS FOR CONTRACEPTION2× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +430% · 49% of their budget
Funded once
- UHUNITE HERE ACTION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +335% · 51% of their budget
- WAWORKING AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +202%
- CFCommunities For A New California Education Fundgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +374% · 43% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To promote sound economic policy: 1 By engaging in citizen led initiative and referendum efforts, 2 By participating in the public policy arena, and 3 By providing educational services to the general public.
To advance pro-growth, pro-worker and pro-american public policy through rigorous policy research, advocacy, and public awareness campaigns.
Network for civic action advocates for the protection of democracy and encourages civic engagement. it evaluates programs and educates donors about how their donations can best serve those goals.
Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.
To be the voice for american workers who need good paying jobs, affordable healthcare, the skills and infrastructure to compete globally.
Research analyze publish information to public on elections election systems laws and campaign financing.
To protect democracy by advocating for policies to strenghten democracy, educating the public about threats to our democracy, and highlighting the unpopularity of federal policies that places money and power over the rights and freedom of…
Fair Lines America, Inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to strengthen our republic by supporting constitutional redistricting, open elections, and accountable government through reform, education, advocacy, and data…
American for Tax Reform (ATR) is a national grassroots organization focused on increasing public awareness about the size and regulations of government and rallying support for lower taxes, smaller government and congressional…
With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.
RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Working America and the most unlike its peers is Preserve Protect and Defend. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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 America Votes ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS ↗
- Who funds 314ACTION ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR CONTRACEPTION ↗
- Who funds UNITE HERE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CENTER FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Communities For A New California Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Clear Choice Action Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE PROTECT AND DEFEND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING ACTION FUND ↗
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.
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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 House Majority Forward 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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