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MoveOn Education Fund

MoveOn Education Fund is an issue-oriented organization that promotes efforts critical to supporting a democracy dedicated to the common good, focusing on social and public policy issues such as economic justice, foreign policy, and the influence of money in politics.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.8MCivil Rights$436kEducation$318kPublic Benefit$304kHuman Services$241kPhilanthropy$50kInternational$10k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $86,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $91,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$407k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Online Progressive Engagement Network$50,000
MoveOnorg Civic Action$36,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Make the Roads Inc: $64k → 20%Voces De La Frontera: $64k → 17%State Power Fund: $64k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
DC
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
2
The Alliance for Media Arts Culture Inc

To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.

Arts & Culture
3
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
4
Progressive Change Institute

The progressive change institute develops and promotes public policy, fosters bottom-up democracy, and educates the public. this includes working to impact the mainstream political discourse and protect democracy.

Public Benefit
5
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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Center for Political Accountability

The Center's mission is to bring transparency and accountability to corporate political spending. The Center sees this as ending the pervasive secrecy that hides corporate political activity from shareholders and the public.

Public Benefit
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Democracy Forward

See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.

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Center for Community Change Action

The center for community change action builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.(mission statement continued on schedule…

Public Benefit
9
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc

To drive principled solutions through rigorous analysis, reasoned negotiation, and respectful dialogue. to actively promote bipartisanship and work to address the key challenges facing the nation including energy and infrastructure,…

Public Benefit
10
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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11
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
12
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Community Change; the most unlike its peers is New Pa Project Education 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $1,783,522 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGEMoveOnorg Civic Action: $369,500 · EducationMoveOnorg Civic Acti…MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $75,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AM…The Trustees of Princeton University: $65,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Prin…We the People MI: $63,636 · EducationWe the People MITIDES CENTER: $163,636 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $63,636 · Human ServicesVOCES DE LA …STATE POWER FUND: $63,636 · Human ServicesSTATE POWER …Make The Road States Inc: $63,636 · Human ServicesMake The Roa…BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $63,640 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACI…ONE ARIZONA: $63,636 · Civil RightsONE ARIZON…ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $63,636 · Civil RightsARIZONA CE…New PA Project Education Fund: $63,636 · Civil RightsNew PA Pro…THE ONLINE PROGRESSIVE ENGAGEMENT NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsTHE ONLINE…FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC: $63,636 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $63,636 · Public BenefitCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER: $25,000 · Public BenefitAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · International
Community Improvement$1,783,522Education$573,136Human Services$354,544Civil Rights$304,548Public Benefit$152,272Philanthropy$50,000International$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $1,783,522 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetMoveOnorg Civic Action: $369,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $163,636 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $63,640 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $63,636 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $63,636 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC: $63,636 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $63,636 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND: $63,636 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $63,636 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWe the People MI: $63,636 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNew PA Project Education Fund: $63,636 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetMake The Road States Inc: $63,636 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncSilicon Valley Commun…Windward FundThe Arca FoundationTelescope FundNew Venture FundThe Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Windward Fund · The Arca Foundation · Telescope Fund · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization MoveOn Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MoveOn Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to MoveOn Education Fund?

Find your warmest path to MoveOn Education Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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