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March for Our Lives Action Fund

March for our live's (mfol) mission is to harness the power of young people across the country to end all forms of gun violence not just mass shootings, but everyday gun violence, police violence and more.

$415k
Granted FY2021
17
Itemized grants FY2021
17
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$302k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$19,996
Largest grant, FY2021
$19,996
Organizations funded a year
1 to 21
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
9
Total assets, FY2021
$487k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations March for Our Lives Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k 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
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalCivil 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
FY202117$302k100%
FY20202$20k50%
FY20191$10k100%
FY201821$2.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Crime & Legal$1.8MCivil Rights$161kInternational$159kYouth Development$111kEducation$94kHuman Services$46kPublic Benefit$37kEnvironment$29kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
MO
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Broward Education Foundation Inc$1,732,980112%
National Urban League Inc$100,00010%
Faith in Action Network$50,00010%
Life Camps Incorporated$35,23422%
Inspirenola Charter Schools$31,79010%
Collegiate Academies$20,23710%
If You'Re Feelin' Civic$19,9961n/a
Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artist Collective$19,99615%
Hope Network Foundation$19,9961n/a
Fusion Partnership Inc$19,99610%
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All grantees of March for Our Lives Action Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Broward Education Foundation Inc$1,732,980112%
National Urban League Inc$100,00010%
Faith in Action Network$50,00010%
Life Camps Incorporated$35,23422%
Inspirenola Charter Schools$31,79010%
Collegiate Academies$20,23710%
If You'Re Feelin' Civic$19,9961n/a
Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artist Collective$19,99615%
Hope Network Foundation$19,9961n/a
Fusion Partnership Inc$19,99610%
La Solar Fridge Project$19,9961n/a
Beyond the Bars Inc$19,99615%
Puente Human Rights Movement$19,99611%
Cure Violence Global$19,99611%
March on Maryland$19,99610%
Childrens Village Inc$19,9501n/a
East Oakland Youth Development Center$18,00011%
Build Inc$17,24610%
Newtown Action Alliance Foundation$16,50018%
Growing Up Inc$15,8711n/a
Love1$15,8711n/a
The Trigger Project$15,8711n/a
Chicago Urban League$15,00010%
Center for American Progress$13,07910%
2nd Mile Ministries Inc$12,44014%
The California Center for Civic Participation$10,50011%
US and Our Children Inc$10,0801n/a
Sowing Seeds into the Midlands$10,0001n/a
National Action Network$10,0001n/a
Ryse Inc$10,00010%
March for Our Lives North Carolina$9,7131n/a
Urban-Geoponics$8,6351n/a
School District of Philadelphia$8,5001n/a
The Black Commission$8,5001n/a
Montana Youth Action$6,5001n/a
Phoenix Leadership Foundation$6,5001n/a
The Image Church of Jacksonville Inc$6,4001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget March for Our Lives Action Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc: $1,732,980 over 1y, 12% of budgetNational Urban League Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFaith in Action Network: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLife Camps Incorporated: $35,234 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetInspirenola Charter Schools: $31,790 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCollegiate Academies: $20,237 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Louis Story Stitchers Artist Collective: $19,996 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFusion Partnership Inc: $19,996 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond the Bars Inc: $19,996 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPuente Human Rights Movement: $19,996 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCure Violence Global: $19,996 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarch on Maryland: $19,996 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEast Oakland Youth Development Center: $18,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBuild Inc: $17,246 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNewtown Action Alliance Foundation: $16,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetChicago Urban League: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $13,079 over 1y, 0.0% of budget2nd Mile Ministries Inc: $12,440 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe California Center for Civic Participation: $10,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRyse Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 20.

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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.

New Venture FundDC15× affinity6 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 · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 March for Our Lives Action Fund

How much does March for Our Lives Action Fund give?
March for Our Lives Action Fund reported 17 itemized grants totaling $301,686, out of $414,891 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does March for Our Lives Action Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (71%), Civil Rights (7%), International (6%).
Who are March for Our Lives Action Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2021: Broward Education Foundation Inc ($1.7M), National Urban League Inc ($100k), Faith in Action Network ($50k).
Does March for Our Lives Action Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as March for Our Lives Action Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, Tides Center, The California Endowment.
Where is March for Our Lives Action Fund based?
March for Our Lives Action Fund is based in NY.

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 41 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 (FY2025) is on record and reports $200 of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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