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Majority Forward

The organization's mission is to advocate for progressive policies and engaging in nonpartisan voter registration.

$176M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$68M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Benefit$192MHousing & Shelter$41MCivil Rights$32MArts & Culture$7.1MEnvironment$3.5MHealth$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.4MHuman Services$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+6 grants · $176M
$28,900,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMP$68,000,000
DUTY AND HONOR$45,650,000
AMERICA VOTES$29,350,000
LAST BEST PLACE PAC$28,900,000
FAMILY FRIENDLY ACTION FUND$3,920,000
VOTO LATINO$250,000
FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY$200,000
907 INITIATIVE$30,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ADVANCING AZ: $40k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND: $1.9M → 17%FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY: $200k → 16%THE LINCOLN PROJECT: $1.4M → 14%AMERICANS FOR SECURE FUTURE: $5.5M → 12%PIEDMONT RISING INC: $140k → 11%RURAL AMERICA FUND: $150k → 10%NEVADA ALLIANCE: $250k → 13%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEW HAMPSHIRE ACTION FUND: $165k → 10%FAMILY FRIENDLY ACTION FUND: $3.9M → 7%SAVE MY COUNTRY ACTION FUND: $665k → 14%PRESERVE AMERICAN IDEALS: $200k → 12%PROTECT YOUR VOTE NEVADA: $250k → 13%END CITIZENS UNITEDLET AMERICA VOTE ACTION FUND: $505k → 14%SWING LEFT: $250k → 14%SWING LEFT: $250k → 14%EQUISLABS: $100k → 14%EQUISLABS: $60k → 14%SMP: $68.0M → 14%SMP: $53.8M → 14%SMP: $47.6M → 14%DUTY AND HONOR: $45.6M → 14%LAST BEST PLACE PAC: $28.9M → 14%SMP: $23.0M → 14%DUTY AND HONOR: $20.7M → 14%DUTY AND HONOR: $20.3M → 14%LAST BEST PLACE PAC: $12.5M → 14%NORTH STAR: $7.1M → 14%DUTY AND HONOR: $7.1M → 14%SMP: $7.0M → 14%DUTY AND COUNTRY: $4.0M → 14%PRIORITIES USA: $3.5M → 14%PRIORITIES USA: $3.1M → 14%53 PEAKS: $3.0M → 14%PRIORITIES USA: $2.4M → 14%BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION: $303k → 14%AMERICAN CENTER: $250k → 14%222 EVERGREEN: $250k → 14%RIGHT TO VOTE FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%OUR FUTURE UNITED PAC: $653k → 14%LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $150k → 14%CLIMATE REALITY ACTION FUND: $330k → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $40.9M → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $32.6M → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $29.4M → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $2.5M → 14%EMILY'S LIST ACTION FUND: $300k → 14%AMERICAN WOMEN: $165k → 14%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
NH
MT
NY
OR
NV
WY
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$430M · 8 repeat orgs$55M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
27

Total granted

$430M
$51M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
0%

Still filing today

63%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • DA
    DUTY AND HONOR
    3× · 2023–2025 · $73M · revenue ×37 · 38% of their budget
  • PU
    PRIORITIES USA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $9.0M · revenue +86%
  • EL
    EMILYS LIST ACTION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $465k · revenue +551% · 55% of their budget

Funded once

  • DA
    DUTY AND HONOR
    one grant, 2021 · $20M · revenue 0%
  • NS
    NORTH STAR
    one grant, 2021 · $7.1M
  • AF
    Americans for a Secure Future
    one grant, 2021 · $5.5M
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
Act for America

Advocacy concerning democratic values, national security and defense; lobbying of government officials in favor of policies that further the defense of the u.s. and its constitution; development of coalitions with other organizations to…

Civil Rights
2
Defend the Vote Action Fund

To sustain and support the prioritization of comprehensive voting rights and democracy reform legislation at all levels of government.

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3
Right Vote Inc
Civil Rights
4
American Prosperity Alliance

American Prosperity Alliances mission is to advocate for legislative and regulatory policies that advance economic prosperity in America.

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5
Americans Against Government Censorship

Americans against government censorship's mission is to advocate against federal policies that threaten the ability of nonprofits to serve their communities and engage in constitutionally protected activity.

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6
Advance American Democracy Inc

To protect democracy by advocating for policies to strenghten democracy, educating the public about threats to our democracy, and highlighting the unpopularity of federal policies that places money and power over the rights and freedom of…

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7
All Americans Vote

All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!

Civil Rights
8
Vote for America

Our mission is to increase voting in elections across the United States by offering nonpartisan information primarily across social media and podcast platforms.

Public Benefit
9
American Policy Coalition

With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.

Public Benefit
10
American Voice

American Voice's mission is to create a more prosperous, fair and free

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11
Americans for Public Trust

The Organization's mission is to restore trust in government by holding officials and groups accountable for corrupt and unethical behavior through investigation, legal action, and reporting.

Arts & Culture
12
American Action Forum Inc

Aaf is dedicated to broad public education on domestic and economic issues, using modern communication tools to engage the public and propose policy solutions. it engages in policy research based on data and provides commentary on domestic…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Strategic Victory Fund; the most unlike its peers is Duty and Honor. 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

29 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. 29 of the 39 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/29
Grantees still filing
11/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMP: $199,370,000 · OtherSMPDUTY AND HONOR: $73,426,000 · OtherDUTY AND HONORLAST BEST PLACE PAC: $41,430,000 · OtherLAST BEST PLACE PACDUTY AND HONOR: $20,330,000 · OtherDUTY AND HONOR+25 more: $28,305,500 · Other+25 moreAmerica Votes: $105,418,068 · Community ImprovementAmerica Votes+1 more: $465,000 · Community ImprovementPRIORITIES USA: $9,004,222 · Civil RightsFORWARD ACTION FUND: $3,920,000 · Civil RightsEND CITIZENS UNITED LET AMERICA VOTE ACTION FUND: $505,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $465,000 · Civil RightsPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $1,900,000 · HealthCLIMATE REALITY ACTION FUND: $330,000 · Environment
Other$362,861,500Community Improvement$105,883,068Civil Rights$13,894,222Health$1,900,000Environment$330,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerica Votes: $105,418,068 over 4y, 36% of budgetDUTY AND HONOR: $73,426,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetPRIORITIES USA: $9,004,222 over 3y, 22% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $1,900,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICANS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH: $1,426,500 over 1y, 52% of budgetVOTEVETS ACTION FUND INC: $1,175,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSave My Country Action Fund: $665,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetEND CITIZENS UNITED LET AMERICA VOTE ACTION FUND: $505,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetEMILYS LIST ACTION: $465,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetCLIMATE REALITY ACTION FUND: $330,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetBLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION: $303,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetNEVADA ALLIANCE: $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund Inc: $165,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetEQUISLABS: $160,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRIGHT TO VOTE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRURAL AMERICA FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCING AZ: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesOpen Society Action F…Fund for a Better Fut…Future Forward USA Ac…Our American Future A…Tides FoundationGlobal Impact Social …Strategic Victory FundNEO Philanthropy Acti…Way to Win Action Fun…National Education As…
Sixteen Thirty FundDC28.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Fund for a Better Future Inc · Future Forward USA Action · Our American Future Action · Tides Foundation · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · Strategic Victory Fund · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · National Education Association of the United States

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 Majority Forward funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Majority Forward. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get 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 Majority Forward?

    Find your warmest path to Majority Forward 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 39 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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