Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Impetus Fund
To operate exclusively for the purpose of promoting social welfare, including, but not limited to, providing public education, conducting advocacy, and encouraging civic engagement.
- $7.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of Impetus Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Sixteen Thirty Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Impetus Fund named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $7M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Impetus Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $5.9M | 75% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $65M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future Forward USA Action | $56,851,537 | 2 | 0% |
| America Votes | $7,112,918 | 3 | 3% |
| Center for Voter Information | $4,046,460 | 2 | 0% |
| Workmoney Inc | $3,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Defending Democracy Together | $2,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Forward Action Fund | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Work for America Inc | $530,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vote Rev Action Fund | $510,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Acronym | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Cooperative Impact Lab | $450,000 | 1 | 39% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future Forward USA Action | $56,851,537 | 2 | 0% |
| America Votes | $7,112,918 | 3 | 3% |
| Center for Voter Information | $4,046,460 | 2 | 0% |
| Workmoney Inc | $3,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Defending Democracy Together | $2,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Forward Action Fund | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Work for America Inc | $530,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vote Rev Action Fund | $510,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Acronym | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Cooperative Impact Lab | $450,000 | 1 | 39% |
| Fair Democracy | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Voto Latino Inc | $111,600 | 1 | n/a |
| The Act Now Project | $111,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Fund for States | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Adler University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Impetus Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hopewell Fund · Future Forward USA Action · Advocacy Action Fund Inc · Bright Future Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Fund for a Better Future Inc · Oakw Fund · Pacific Environmental Coalition · American Future Republic
How this is measured
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About Impetus Fund
- How much does Impetus Fund give?
- Impetus Fund reported 9 grants totaling $7,017,460 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Impetus Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (91%), Community Improvement (8%), Employment (1%).
- Who are Impetus Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Future Forward USA Action ($57M), America Votes ($7.1M), Center for Voter Information ($4.0M).
- Does Impetus Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Impetus Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, Future Forward USA Action.
- Where is Impetus Fund based?
- Impetus Fund is based in DC.
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