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Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action

Interaction is a convener, thought leader, and voice for ngos working to eliminate extreme poverty, strengthen human rights and citizen participation, safeguard a sustainable planet, promote peace, and ensure dignity for all people.

$664k
Granted FY2021
8
Itemized grants FY2021
8
Organizations funded FY2021
75%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$345k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$23,650
Largest grant, FY2021
$179,850
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
6
Total assets, FY2021
$6.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 75% of the organizations Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20218$345k75%
FY20209$274k67%
FY201911$194k100%
FY20173$203kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

International$562kPhilanthropy$126kHousing & Shelter$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kFood & Nutrition$51kHealth$50kEmployment$35kCrime & Legal$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MD
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cda Collaborative Learning Projects Inc$179,850128%
Candid$125,75011%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$75,00030%
Mennonite Central Committee U S$54,4213n/a
International Food Policy Research Institute$50,86410%
Syrian American Medical Society$49,801120%
Weema International Inc$49,03923%
American Center for International Labor Solidarity$35,00010%
Family Health International Inc$35,00010%
Catholic Relief Services$35,0001n/a
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cda Collaborative Learning Projects Inc$179,850128%
Candid$125,75011%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$75,00030%
Mennonite Central Committee U S$54,4213n/a
International Food Policy Research Institute$50,86410%
Syrian American Medical Society$49,801120%
Weema International Inc$49,03923%
American Center for International Labor Solidarity$35,00010%
Family Health International Inc$35,00010%
Catholic Relief Services$35,0001n/a
Adventist Development & Relief Agency International$35,00010%
Action Against Hunger - USA$34,73810%
International Medical Corps$30,00010%
Development Gateway Inc$26,55010%
International Rescue Committee INC$23,65010%
Aga Khan Foundation USA$20,00010%
Trickle Up Program Inc$20,00010%
Fonkoze USA Inc$20,00011%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$20,00010%
Project Concern International$15,00010%
Cadasta Foundation$15,00010%
Heartland Alliance International Inc$14,99910%
Relief International Inc$14,99610%
Helen Keller International$14,94410%
Spoon Foundation$13,48311%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCda Collaborative Learning Projects Inc: $179,850 over 1y, 28% of budgetCandid: $125,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity International Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Food Policy Research Institute: $50,864 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSyrian American Medical Society: $49,801 over 1y, 20% of budgetWeema International Inc: $49,039 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAmerican Center for International Labor Solidarity: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Health International Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdventist Development & Relief Agency International: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAction Against Hunger - USA: $34,738 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Medical Corps: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDevelopment Gateway Inc: $26,550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $23,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAga Khan Foundation USA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrickle Up Program Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFonkoze USA Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Concern International: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCadasta Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHeartland Alliance International Inc: $14,999 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRelief International Inc: $14,996 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelen Keller International: $14,944 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpoon Foundation: $13,483 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

ImpactassetsincMD15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Gates Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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.

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About Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action

How much does Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action give?
Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action reported 8 itemized grants totaling $344,734, out of $663,601 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are International (55%), Philanthropy (12%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Cda Collaborative Learning Projects Inc ($180k), Candid ($126k), Habitat for Humanity International Inc ($75k).
Does Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Gates Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.
Where is Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action based?
Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action is based in DC.

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 26 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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