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Million Voters Project Action Fund for Schools and Communities First

Support issues that reduce and eliminate structural barriers to social and economic opportunities for poor and economically disadvantaged communities and communities of color in california.

$359k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20182024.

Civil Rights$501kHuman Services$381kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$44,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND$300,000
CALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK ACTION FUND$44,000
CALIFORNIA FOR HUMAN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS LEADERSHIP ACTION FUND$15,000
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 (FY23–24, $381k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CALIFORNIA FOR HUMAN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS LEADERSHIP ACTION FUND: $15k → 14%CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $300k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $15k → 14%ACCE ACTION: $50k → 14%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.

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 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.

1
Black American Political Association of California

Educate and advocacy

Civil Rights
2
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
3
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

4
Californians for Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability

To support policies and ballot measures to curb increases in taxes throughout the state of California, including the qualification and passage of a proposed statewide initiative relating to the imposition of taxes and fees (California…

5
Californians to Protect Community Healthcare

To protect business transactions between health care facilities and provider groups with private investors from excessive government overreach in California through public education and advocacy

6
Social Justice and Solidarity Fund

The Funds mission is to provide sustained support to grassroots organizing projects and movements rooted in the multi-racial working class which rely on their members and constituency to build power in the community.

7
Cause Action Fund

CAUSE Action Fund is a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization dedicated to social economic and environmental justice throughout the Central Coast of California. We educate and mobilize immigrant, working-class and young voters to build grassroots…

Community Improvement
8
California Calls Education Fund

California calls education fund (ccef) is an alliance of community-based organizations from across the state of california. ccef educates and engages communities of color and working-class neighbordhoods about public policy. communities…

Civil Rights
9
California Forward Action Fund

The california forward action fund strives to improve the quality of life for all californians by advocating for policies that create inclusive, sustainable growth and improved government at the state and local levels. the action fund is…

Civil Rights
10
Consumer Federation of California

Cfc advocates for the rights of california consumers on a broad range of consumer issues.

Public Benefit
11
Californians to Stop Higher Property Taxes

To educate the public and policy makers about the history and purpose of California's property tax law.

12
Californians for Safe and Affordable Housing

To combat community deterioration, defend human and civil rights secured by law, and promote the common good and social welfare of the people by educating the public and advocating with respect to the importance of safe and affordable…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Calls Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is California Black Power Network Action Fund. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST — $415,000 · Civil RightsMILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES…CALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK ACTION FUND — $44,000 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK ACTION FUND+3 more — $42,100 · Civil Rights+3 moreCALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND — $300,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUNDAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action — $50,199 · Human ServicesAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerm…INNERCITY STRUGGLE — $15,332 · Human ServicesCalifornians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund — $15,000 · Human ServicesDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $15,332 · Community ImprovementCalifornia Labor Federation AFL-CIO — $5,000 · Other
Civil Rights$501,100Human Services$380,531Community Improvement$15,332Other$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST — $415,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND — $300,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action — $50,199 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $15,332 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE — $15,332 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE SAN DIEGO MOBILIZATION FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCalifornians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund — $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetOC Action — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPICO California Action Fund — $12,100 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCalifornia Labor Federation AFL-CIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Liberty Hill FoundationCA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Hill Foundation · California Calls Education Fund · Tides Advocacy · The San Francisco Foundation · California Community Foundation · Sixteen Thirty 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 Million Voters Project Action Fund for Schools and Communities First 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.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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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    How do I get to Million Voters Project Action Fund for Schools and Communities First?

    Find your warmest path to Million Voters Project Action Fund for Schools and Communities First 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 11 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.

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