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Movement Alliance Project

MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT map facilitates peer learning, training, and skill building for social justice organizations, primarily in philadelphia.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$356k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Environment$768kCivil Rights$510kPublic Benefit$353kCrime & Legal$319kHealth$101kCommunity Improvement$91kArts & Culture$87kEducation$74kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $878,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,164,210 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $285,410 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $416k
  • $250k+1 grant · $356k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARTH QUAKER ACTION TEAM$356,454
LEFTROOTS INC$225,500
AMISTAD LAW PROJECT$90,734
PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PHILADELPHIA$50,000
ONEPA ACTIVISTS UNITED$50,000
LA LUNA FOUNDATION LLC$18,890
SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER$15,241
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT (YEAH) PHILLY$12,000
PHILLYCAM$12,000
PHILLY THRIVE$11,000
ARK OF SAFETY$10,000
EDUCATION CULTURE OPPORTUNITIES (ECO) FOUNDATION$8,500
RECLAIM PHILADELPHIA ACTION$7,481
BROTHERS OF STRAWBERRY MANSION$6,000
REALITY SPEAKING INC$5,000
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, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EDUCATION CULTURE OPPORTUNITIES (ECO) FOUNDATION: $9k → 22%THE ECO FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%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 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.
$1.5M · 19 repeat orgs$848k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
19

Total granted

$1.5M
$419k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+42%

Still filing today

68%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $429k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • AMISTAD LAW PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2024 · $181k · revenue +52%
  • CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $108k · revenue +572%
  • PF
    PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PENNSYLVANIA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $74k · revenue +168%
  • CF
    COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue -34%
  • D
    Dayonenotdaytwograduated
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +157% · 31% of their budget

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.

1
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
2
Philly Black Worker Project

) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower Black workers to advance our rights and improve job quality in key employment sectors

Civil Rights
3
The Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal
4
Community Justice Project

To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.

Crime & Legal
5
Philly Neighborhood Networks

We organize and educate our neighbors about local issues affecting our NW Philadelphia neighborhood to better our neighborhood eg, promoting toxic-free schools and affordable housing. Also, we've registered almost 250 voters by focusing on…

Civil Rights
6
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
7
Ballot Pa Action

Informed and educated the public and lawmakers about the benefits of including independent voters in Pennsylvania's primary elections.

Civil Rights
8
Lead Pa

Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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9
Pennsylvanians for Fair Courts

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, and government programs to protect against judicial gerrymandering and other legislative barriers to fair courts, and to conduct research about and publicize the positions of elected…

—
10
Pa Alliance Action

The PA Alliance Action seeks to advocate at the state level for democracy reform through grassroots activities and support of like-minded organizations on behalf of and in support of all Pennsylvanians, in particular historically…

Civil Rights
11
Ceasefire Pennsylvania

Ceasefirepa organizes with communities closest to the issue, holds those in power accountable and maximizes the strengths of every member in its broad coalition understanding that the strongest work is work done by many.

Civil Rights
12
Coalfield Justice Action

To invest in the people and policies that impact historic and active fossil fuel communities, and to promote an equitable, healthy, sustainable future for our region.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Pennsylvania Activists United and the most unlike its peers is Human Rights Coalition. 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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%17%<5yr15%31%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr21%24%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr11%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%37%<5yr15%25%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr21%22%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr11%5%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 37% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/38
the rest of the field
12%
4,125/35,359

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 44 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEFT ROOTS — $568,194 · OtherLEFT ROOTSCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · OtherPA STANDS UP — $60,000 · OtherPOWER — $60,000 · OtherSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC — $55,241 · OtherENERGY JUSTICE NETWORK — $55,000 · OtherSUNRISE MOVEMENT — $45,000 · OtherYOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT — $58,500 · Other+21 more — $344,172 · Other+21 moreEARTH QUAKER ACTION TEAM — $356,454 · Community ImprovementEARTH QUAKER ACTION…HILL DISTRICT CONSENSUS GROUP — $40,000 · Community ImprovementHILL DISTRICT CONSE…Pittsburgh United — $15,000 · Community ImprovementAMISTAD LAW PROJECT — $180,734 · Crime & LegalAMISTAD LAW P…Dayonenotdaytwo — $45,000 · Crime & LegalDayonenotdayt…PHILADELPHIA BAIL FUND INC — $30,500 · Crime & LegalPHILADELPHIA …Human Rights Coalition — $30,000 · Crime & LegalHuman Rights …CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE — $107,500 · EnvironmentPHILLY THRIVE — $26,000 · EnvironmentPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PENNSYLVANIA — $90,000 · HealthONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED — $50,000 · Civil RightsMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC — $17,500 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsPennsylvania United — $10,000 · Civil RightsMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $73,500 · Education
Other$1,311,107Community Improvement$411,454Crime & Legal$286,234Environment$133,500Health$90,000Civil Rights$87,500Education$73,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEARTH QUAKER ACTION TEAM — $356,454 over 1y, 75% of budgetAMISTAD LAW PROJECT — $180,734 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE — $107,500 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PENNSYLVANIA — $90,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $73,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT — $58,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC — $55,241 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDayonenotdaytwo — $45,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT — $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCASA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILL DISTRICT CONSENSUS GROUP — $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetPittsburghers for Public Transit — $35,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION — $32,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA BAIL FUND INC — $30,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHuman Rights Coalition — $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNORTHSIDE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPHILLY THRIVE — $26,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetPOWER ACTION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPittsburgh United — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCATION CULTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania United — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRECLAIM PHILADELPHIA ACTION — $7,481 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetREALITY SPEAKING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Bread and Roses Commu…Tides FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…Independence Public M…Poise FoundationAll Hands on Deck Net…Tides AdvocacyThe Heinz EndowmentsSixteen Thirty FundUnited States Energy …New Venture Fund
Bread and Roses Community FundPA23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bread and Roses Community Fund · Tides Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc · Poise Foundation · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · The Heinz Endowments · Sixteen Thirty Fund · United States Energy Foundation · New Venture 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 Movement Alliance Project 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Movement Alliance Project?

Find your warmest path to Movement Alliance Project 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 44 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.

Source object · view filing

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines