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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 FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$4.7MEducation$2.4MHuman Services$2.2MPublic Benefit$1.9MHealth$825kYouth Development$810kCommunity Improvement$650k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.1M
$225,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALLONS BABIES$200,000
OHIO KIDS FIRST INC$200,000
ARIZONA STAND FOR CHILDREN INC$200,000
TAKEACTION MINNESOTA$200,000
ALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION$200,000
MARYLAND RISE INC$110,000
SMART START ADVOCATES$100,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND: $300k → 22%OHIO KIDS FIRST INC: $200k → 15%CHILDREN MATTER ACTION FUND: $200k → 22%OHIO KIDS FIRST INC: $200k → 15%CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND: $200k → 22%OHIO KIDS FIRST INC: $200k → 15%CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND: $200k → 22%OHIO KIDS FIRST INC: $200k → 15%CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND: $200k → 22%OHIO KIDS FIRST INC: $200k → 15%CHILDREN MATTER ACTION FUND: $70k → 22%OHIO KIDS FIRST: $50k → 15%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

VT
MN
NY
OR
OH
PA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
LA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 14 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$12M
$788k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
0%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • VP
    VIRGINIA PROMISE IN ACTION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +196% · 100% of their budget
  • CF
    CHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +150% · 69% of their budget
  • OK
    OHIO KIDS FIRST INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +8% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • OI
    ORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -39%
  • KC
    Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • TF
    TEXANS FOR PROP 2
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Childrens Action Alliance Inc

Through research publications, media campaigns, and advocacy, CAA seeks to influence policies and decisions affecting the lives of Arizona children and their families on issues related to health, child abuse and neglect, early care and…

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2
Dc Action for Children Today Dc Act

We're making the District of Columbia a place where all kids grow up safe, resilient, powerful and heard. DC Action uses research, data, and a racial equity lens to break down barriers that stand in the way of all kids reaching their full…

Human Services
3
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice

We are a team of organizations who believe in the power of community and taking action. our goal is to equip our fellow louisianians with the knowledge and informaiton they need to find their voice, and learn where and when to use it.

Civil Rights
4
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…

Human Services
5
North Carolina Early Education Coalition

Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, training, newsletters, fact sheets, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and…

Education
6
First Focus on Children

Bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families the priority in federal policy and budget decisions.

Human Services
7
Kentucky Coalition Inc

To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.

Public Benefit
8
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education Policy and Research

To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.

Education
9
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

Human Services
10
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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11
First State Educate Action Fund Inc

A delaware where informed voters and empowered communities actively shape the future of public education, ensuring equitable opportunities for all students through strong, values-driven school board governance.

Education
12
Leading for Kids

The mission of Leading for Kids is to create a society that puts children first and promotes a culture where the health and well-being of all children is the highest priority.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children First Action Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 22 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
6/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA PROMISE IN ACTION INC: $1,350,000 · Civil RightsVIRGINIA PROMISE IN ACTION…LET'S GROW KIDS ACTION NETWORK: $1,150,000 · Civil RightsLET'S GROW KIDS ACTION NET…MARYLAND RISE INC: $650,000 · Civil RightsMARYLAND RISE INC+1 more: $8,000 · Civil RightsNMVC Action Fund: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentNMVC Action FundSTAND FOR CHILDREN INC: $800,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTAND FOR CHILDREN IN…ALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $725,000 · Youth DevelopmentALLIANCE FOR QUALITY …+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND: $1,170,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN FIRST ACT…OHIO KIDS FIRST INC: $1,050,000 · Human ServicesOHIO KIDS FIRST IN…FAMILY FORWARD ACTION: $950,000 · Community ImprovementFAMILY FORWARD …ORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: $500,000 · Community ImprovementORGANIZERS IN T…ALLONS BABIES: $400,000 · Community ImprovementALLONS BABIESTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $860,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTIO…BUSINESS AND EDUCATION LEADERS FOR SMART START AND JOBS: $290,000 · Public BenefitBUSINESS …TENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION: $1,100,000 · EducationTENNESSEA…HEALTHIER COLORADO: $825,000 · HealthKentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc: $250,000 · OtherKentucky Chamber Advocacy Committee Inc: $225,000 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINIANS FOR COMMON SENSE: $100,000 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · Other
Civil Rights$3,158,000Youth Development$2,535,000Human Services$2,220,000Community Improvement$1,850,000Public Benefit$1,150,000Education$1,100,000Health$825,000Other$595,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVIRGINIA PROMISE IN ACTION INC: $1,350,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST ACTION FUND: $1,170,000 over 6y, 69% of budgetLET'S GROW KIDS ACTION NETWORK: $1,150,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetTENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION: $1,100,000 over 4y, 95% of budgetOHIO KIDS FIRST INC: $1,050,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetNMVC Action Fund: $1,000,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetFAMILY FORWARD ACTION: $950,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $860,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetHEALTHIER COLORADO: $825,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN INC: $800,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $725,000 over 4y, 65% of budgetMARYLAND RISE INC: $650,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetALLONS BABIES: $400,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetBUSINESS AND EDUCATION LEADERS FOR SMART START AND JOBS: $290,000 over 4y, 81% of budgetKentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMissouri Action for Kids: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetPOWER COALITION FOR ELECTORAL JUSTICE: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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
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 Impact Fellows Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Impact Fellows Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%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
    4get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Impact Fellows Action Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Impact Fellows Action Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 22 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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