Kansas · 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.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $225,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Impact Fellows Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $3.7M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $3.4M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $2.7M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $2.7M | 64% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $800k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $180k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Promise in Action Inc | $1,350,000 | 5 | 100% |
| Children First Action Fund | $1,170,000 | 6 | 69% |
| Let's Grow Kids Action Network | $1,150,000 | 5 | 48% |
| Tennesseans for Quality Early Education | $1,100,000 | 4 | 95% |
| Ohio Kids First Inc | $1,050,000 | 6 | 100% |
| NMVC Action Fund | $1,000,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Family Forward Action | $950,000 | 4 | 61% |
| Takeaction Minnesota | $860,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Healthier Colorado | $825,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Stand for Children Inc | $800,000 | 4 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Promise in Action Inc | $1,350,000 | 5 | 100% |
| Children First Action Fund | $1,170,000 | 6 | 69% |
| Let's Grow Kids Action Network | $1,150,000 | 5 | 48% |
| Tennesseans for Quality Early Education | $1,100,000 | 4 | 95% |
| Ohio Kids First Inc | $1,050,000 | 6 | 100% |
| NMVC Action Fund | $1,000,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Family Forward Action | $950,000 | 4 | 61% |
| Takeaction Minnesota | $860,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Healthier Colorado | $825,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Stand for Children Inc | $800,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Alliance for Quality Education Inc | $725,000 | 4 | 65% |
| Maryland Rise Inc | $650,000 | 4 | 45% |
| Organizers in the Land of Enchantment | $500,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Allons Babies | $400,000 | 2 | 99% |
| Business and Education Leaders for Smart Start and Jobs | $290,000 | 4 | 81% |
| Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Kentucky Chamber Advocacy Committee Inc | $225,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Carolinians for Common Sense | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texans for Prop 2 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Missouri Action for Kids | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| SC Victory 2018 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Power Coalition for Electoral Justice | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Impact Fellows Action Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Impact Fellows Action Fund
- How much does Impact Fellows Action Fund give?
- Impact Fellows Action Fund reported 16 grants totaling $3,685,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Impact Fellows Action Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (35%), Education (18%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Impact Fellows Action Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Virginia Promise in Action Inc ($1.4M), Children First Action Fund ($1.2M), Let's Grow Kids Action Network ($1.1M).
- Does Impact Fellows Action Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Impact Fellows Action Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund.
- Where is Impact Fellows Action Fund based?
- Impact Fellows Action Fund is based in KS.
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