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Mill Valley Community Action Network Inc

Mill valley community action network through its airlift project provides grant funding to grassroots groups in selected battleground states and regions.

$301k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of MILL VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $292,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $301,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$29,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Communities for a New California$44,500
Black Male Initiative Fund$44,000
CAROLINA FEDERATION$39,500
Pennsylvania Stands Up$34,000
Worker Power$29,500
LIVING UINITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA$24,000
Down Home North Carolina$20,500
One APIA Nevada$20,000
Leadership Igniting Transformation$20,000
We the People$16,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–22, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $42k → 11%Living United for Change in Arizona: $15k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NV
PA
CA
AZ
NC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$851k · 12 repeat orgs$488k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$851k
$324k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+70%

Still filing today

92%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationInternationalOther

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

  • CF
    CAROLINA FEDERATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $107k · revenue +210%
  • CF
    Communities for A New California
    3× · 2020–2024 · $97k · revenue +82%
  • WP
    WORKER POWER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY - DEPOSITORY ACCOUNT
    one grant, 2020 · $99k
  • ON
    ORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • OP
    ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA FOR ONE PA
    one grant, 2020 · $38k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

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Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
2
Workers Defense Action Fund

Workers defense action fund is a member-led organization that mobilizes latine voters in texas to build governing power and fight for worker and immigrant justice.

Civil Rights
3
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
4
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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5
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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6
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
7
Pennsylvania United

PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create

Civil Rights
8
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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9
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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10
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
11
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
12
United Power for Action and Justice Inc

Advocacy for social justice, common good, and housing opportunity.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oc Action. 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

22 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. 22 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
9/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIDES ADVOCACY - DEPOSITORY ACCOUNT — $99,084 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACY - DEPOSITORY ACCOUNTNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND — $76,500 · OtherNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUNDLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC — $74,850 · OtherLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INCMOVE TEXAS ACTION FUND — $57,800 · OtherMOVE TEXAS ACTION FUNDORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC — $50,250 · OtherORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INCTIDES ADVOCACY — $40,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA FOR ONE PA — $38,417 · OtherORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA FOR ONE PAWorker Power — $29,500 · OtherBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc — $28,350 · OtherTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK — $27,000 · Other+3 more — $37,500 · Other+3 morePENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC — $83,500 · Community ImprovementPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP I…PEOPLE'S ACTION — $64,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTIONWORKER POWER — $59,800 · Community ImprovementWORKER POWERWORKER POWER INSTITUTE — $51,500 · Community ImprovementWORKER POWER INSTITUTEPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INSTITUTE — $34,000 · Community ImprovementPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP I…CAROLINA FEDERATION — $107,000 · Civil RightsCAROLINA FEDERATIONACTION FOR LIBERATION — $75,500 · Civil RightsACTION FOR LIBERATIONBLACK MALE INITIATIVE FUND INC — $44,000 · Civil RightsBLACK MALE INITIATIVE FU…OC Action — $23,500 · Civil RightsOC ActionPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA — $20,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP A…We The People Action Fund — $16,000 · Civil RightsWe The People Action Fun…Communities for A New California — $97,000 · Public BenefitLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $63,100 · Human ServicesWE ARE DOWN HOME — $20,500 · EducationONE APIA NEVADA — $20,000 · International
Other$559,251Community Improvement$292,800Civil Rights$286,000Public Benefit$97,000Human Services$63,100Education$20,500International$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAROLINA FEDERATION — $107,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetCommunities for A New California — $97,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC — $83,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND — $76,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACTION FOR LIBERATION — $75,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC — $74,850 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION — $64,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $63,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWORKER POWER — $59,800 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMOVE TEXAS ACTION FUND — $57,800 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWORKER POWER INSTITUTE — $51,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC — $50,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBLACK MALE INITIATIVE FUND INC — $44,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INSTITUTE — $34,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc — $28,350 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK — $27,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOC Action — $23,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME — $20,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONE APIA NEVADA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWe The People Action Fund — $16,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

All Hands on Deck Net…Tides AdvocacyAmerica VotesSixteen Thirty FundTides FoundationWay to Win Action Fun…Pro-Democracy CampaignOpen Society Action F…Women Donors Network …The Heising-Simons Ac…Working Families Orga…Clean and Prosperous …
All Hands on Deck Network IncMA42.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · America Votes · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · Working Families Organization Inc · Clean and Prosperous America

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 Mill Valley Community Action Network Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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: 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mill Valley Community Action Network Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mill Valley Community Action Network Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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