· Public charity
Impact Fellows Action Fund
Funding and technical assistance to state advocates for early childhood policies that transform the lives of generations of young children and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION-TQEE | $400,000 |
| VIRGINIA PROMISE IN ACTION INC | $350,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND | $300,000 |
| NMVC ACTION FUND | $300,000 |
| FAMILY FORWARD ACTION FUND | $300,000 |
| HEALTHIER COLORADO | $250,000 |
| LET'S GROW KIDS ACTION NETWORK | $250,000 |
| KENTUCKY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $225,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION | $200,000 |
| ALLONS BABIES | $200,000 |
| OHIO KIDS FIRST INC | $200,000 |
| ARIZONA STAND FOR CHILDREN INC | $200,000 |
| TAKEACTION MINNESOTA | $200,000 |
| MARYLAND RISE INC | $110,000 |
| SMART START ADVOCATES | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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
- VPVIRGINIA PROMISE IN ACTION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +196% · 100% of their budget
- CFCHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +150% · 69% of their budget
- OKOHIO KIDS FIRST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +8% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- OIORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENTone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -39%
- KCKentucky Chamber of Commerce Incone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
- TFTEXANS FOR PROP 2one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children First Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Organizers in the Land of Enchantment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 22 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 VIRGINIA PROMISE IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO KIDS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds NMVC Action Fund ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FORWARD ACTION ↗
- Who funds TAKEACTION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds HEALTHIER COLORADO ↗
- Who funds STAND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND RISE INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT ↗
- Who funds ALLONS BABIES ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS AND EDUCATION LEADERS FOR SMART START AND JOBS ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Chamber Advocacy Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds Missouri Action for Kids ↗
- Who funds POWER COALITION FOR ELECTORAL JUSTICE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Impact Fellows 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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