How much did MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND grant in FY2021?

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND reported 17 grants totaling $414,891 in its FY2021 IRS filing.

Where is MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND based?

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND is based in NY.

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND

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· Public charity

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND

March for our lives is a courageous youth-led movement dedicated to promoting civic engagement, education, and direct action by youth to eliminate the epidemic of gun violence.

$415k

Granted FY2021

Grants

Communities

$20k

Largest

01What you fund

0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2021.

Education$1.8MHuman Services$143kCommunity Improvement$70kYouth Development$56kCrime & Legal$55kCivil Rights$33kArts & Culture$20kInternational$20kPhilanthropy$17kOther$268k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

travelfiaurbanhealthfaithcivil rightsadvancing

2019

mfol

2020

—

2021

aidstudentorganizersmigrantchangebuildheal

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2021 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k16 grants · $295k

$19,996

Median grant

States reached

$829k

Total assets

Largest grants

IIYC LOS ANGELES$19,996
CURE VIOLENCE GLOBAL$19,996
GKMC BALTIMORE$19,996
PUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT$19,996
PHILADELPHIA SESAMO$19,996
IF YOU'RE FEELIN' CIVIC$19,996
LA SOLAR FRIDGE PROJECT$19,996
BEYOND THE BARS INC$19,996
SAINT LOUIS STORY STITCHERS ARTISTS COLLECTIVE$19,996
STICK TALK$17,246
CHICAGO STUDENT PANDEMIC RELIEF$17,246
NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREP HIGH SCHOOL$17,246
CONCERNED CITIZENS DEMANDING CHANGE$15,871
THE TRIGGER PROJECT$15,871
LOVE1$15,871

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Youth Activism Project

The Youth Activism Project teaches teens movement-building skills to make policy impact at all levels of government. We envision a world in which youth activism is the norm, not the exception. We know that even though many young people are…

Youth Development

Chicago Votes

Leadership development and non partisan civic education.

Civil Rights

Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights

Chicago Learning Exchange

The Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX) is a nonprofit organization that connects and supports our city's array of out-of-school time youth-focused organizations in order to prepare youth, youth workers, and our city for the future.

Youth Development

Civic Influencers Inc

To activate young people civic power through organizing, learning, and advocacy.

Civil Rights

Catalyst for Educational Change

Catalyst for educational change (cec) is a nonprofit consulting agency that works with adult leaders in solving complex problems in educational systems. cec uses continuous improvement practices and deep collaboration to help educational…

Education

A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth

Human Services

Youth Ambassadors Inc

Youth Ambassadors is an educational program designed to empower underserved teenage youth with important life skills, soft job skills, creative expression, and adult mentors, helping them become future community leaders willing and able to…

Arts & Culture

Urban League of Greater

To help black people and historically underserved communities to achieve their highest true social parity, economic self-reliance, power, civil rights, and justice

Human Services

Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education

Oakland Kids First

Oakland Kids First is a community-based nonprofit in Oakland, CA that empowers young people to reimagine broken systems and organize for equitable public schools by providing youth leadership development, youth organizing, and community…

Youth Development

Teen Hype

Teen H.Y.P.E. (Helping Youth by Providing Education), empowers urban youth to thrive while strengthening their communities.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trigger Project and the most unlike its peers is East Oakland Development Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 11% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

11%

4/38

the rest of the field

14%

14,580/103,006

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

18/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$1,795,007Other$324,079Human Services$142,516Community Improvement$69,996Youth Development$55,821Crime & Legal$55,230Civil Rights$33,075

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.

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.

New Venture FundDC17.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Tides Center · The California Endowment · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Impactassetsinc · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy 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 organisation MARCH FOR OUR LIVES 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 592359433 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to March for Our Lives Action Fund?

Find your warmest path to March for Our Lives Action Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to March for Our Lives Action Fund?

More from the funding graph

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to March for Our Lives Action Fund?

More from the funding graph