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Long Ridge Action Fund
Through our philanthropy, we contribute to a more equitable society where individuals and communities have access to the resources needed to thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Local Jobs & Economic Develop | $225,000 |
| Emerge America | $150,000 |
| Black Men Vote Civic Action | $125,000 |
| Americans for Contraception | $125,000 |
| Our American Future Action | $100,000 |
| Indivisble Project | $100,000 |
| EveryLibrary | $50,000 |
| Run for Something Action Fund | $50,000 |
| Voto Latino | $50,000 |
| Collective Future | $50,000 |
| All Voting is Local Action | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- LJLOCAL JOBS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $450k · revenue +356%
- BMBLACK MEN VOTE CIVIC ACTION FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $350k · revenue ×86 · 81% of their budget
- AVALL VOTING IS LOCAL3× · 2022–2024 · $275k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- TATIDES ADVOCACYone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +4%
- EEEVERY ELIGIBLE AMERICANone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -98%
- EDENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -15%
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.
All voting is local action is a nonpartisan organization that engages in advocacy, legislative action, policy-making, grass-roots mobilization, research and other activities that will both expand the right to vote and oppose and reverse…
Strengthen democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in all elections.
To sustain and support the prioritization of comprehensive voting rights and democracy reform legislation at all levels of government.
The mission of indivisible civics is to build civic leadership to empower a grassroots movement that's advancing progressive values and policies. it educates and builds the capacity of grassroots activists with organizing support,…
One for democracy unlocks resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time.
Dedicated to accelerate the buildout of clean energy across america, creating good jobs, local economic growth and energy security.
New american leaders action fund (nalaf) is building a democracy that represents and includes all people by engaging new voters, supporting new americans as they run for office, and expanding civic engagement.
Ultraviolet action (uva) is a 501c4 organization. ultraviolet action is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives feminist…
The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.
The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.
The organization is founded for social welfare purposes, including assisting with voter registration and advocating for policies which lead to increased voter registration in the united states.
To support legal, political & administrative efforts to protect fair voting.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Run for Something Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Everylibrary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ↗
- Who funds LOCAL JOBS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK MEN VOTE CIVIC ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds ALL VOTING IS LOCAL ↗
- Who funds NORTH FUND ↗
- Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIVISIBLE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OUR AMERICAN FUTURE ACTION ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds EVERYLIBRARY ↗
- Who funds EVERY ELIGIBLE AMERICAN ↗
- Who funds RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR CONTRACEPTION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fund for a Better Future Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · Onward Together · Bright Future Fund · Future Forward USA Action · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · America Votes · Tides Advocacy · Hopewell Fund
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 Long Ridge 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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