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NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc

To promote social welfare and the common good, advance social justice, and advocate policy reform to improve the quality of life for all persons.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$3.3M
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 FY2017–2024.

Environment$39MPublic Benefit$19MCivil Rights$15MPhilanthropy$3.9MCommunity Improvement$1.6MCrime & Legal$1.2MHuman Services$1.0MEducation$992kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $4.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.8M
$100,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Neo Philanthropy Inc$3,250,000
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus$1,026,000
Make The Road Action Inc$510,000
NAKASEC Action Fund$400,000
Sheriffs for Trusting Communities$350,000
New Yorkers for Equal Rights$300,738
Voces De La Frontera Action Inc$200,000
Asian American Advocacy Fund Inc$200,000
Annie's List Training and Engagement Fund$200,000
American Business Immigration Coalition Action$200,000
Building Power for Communities of Color$185,000
Living United For Change In Arizona Inc$170,000
GLAHR Action Network$160,000
State Power Action Fund$150,000
Civic Empowerment Coalition$150,000
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 (FY19–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Living United For Change In Arizona Inc: $170k → 11%Neighbor To Neighbor Massachusetts Action Fund Inc: $25k → 11%Low Country Alliance For Model Communities: $15k → 12%Women's Rights And Empowerment Network: $15k → 16%NCAAT In Action: $100k → 8%Colaborativa La Milpa: $10k → 12%Alpha Life Enrichment Center: $20k → 18%Men and Women United for Youth and Families Inc: $50k → 21%Casa in Action Inc: $140k → 11%Living United For Change In Arizona Inc: $100k → 11%NILC Immigrant Justice Fund: $70k → 14%Living United For Change In Arizona Inc: $100k → 11%Chinese Progressive Political Action Inc: $30k → 16%NCAAT In Action: $50k → 8%Living United For Change In Arizona Inc: $95k → 11%Brazilian Policy Center Inc: $63k → 16%NCAAT In Action: $75k → 8%The Hive Community Circle: $16k → 16%El Pueblo Inc: $10k → 8%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

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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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$66M · 68 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

68 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
112

Total granted

$66M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+3%

Still filing today

93%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $27M · revenue +388%
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +191%
  • EA
    ENERGY ACTION FUND
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.9M · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $3.8M · revenue -18%
  • MF
    MAJORITY FORWARD
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +14%
  • PU
    PRIORITIES USA
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue -60%

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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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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2
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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3
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
4
America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement
5
Accion Politica Pcunista Dba Pcun

To promote civic participation.

Arts & Culture
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Action Nc

Action nc is a community organization and citizen 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 economic…

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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
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Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
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Electoral Collective Action

Electoral Collective Action coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights
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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
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Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
12
La Voice Action

La voice action's mission is to build multi-racial, interfaith power to win policies that transforms los angeles into a county that reflects the human dignity of all people, with racial equity and abundance for all.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith in Public Life Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Associacion De Mexicanos En Carolina Del Nort. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Lgbtq+ Community SupportChristian Youth CampsPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersDomestic Violence ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Community Food PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Youth Development ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%11%<5yr14%33%5–10yr18%30%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr16%6%35–55yr15%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%18%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr16%43%35–55yr15%1%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
10/206
the rest of the field
13%
1,600/12,795

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

187 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. 187 of the 206 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)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
179/187
Grantees still filing
101/187
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $26,550,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INCPRIORITIES USA — $2,000,000 · Civil Rights+56 more — $11,983,607 · Civil Rights+56 moreMAJORITY FORWARD — $2,000,000 · OtherMAJORITY FORWARDNRDC ACTION FUND INC — $1,450,000 · OtherNRDC ACTION FUND …NEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION — $1,230,000 · OtherNEXTGEN CLIMATE A…ACRONYM — $1,000,000 · OtherACRONYMSUNRISE MOVEMENT — $675,000 · OtherNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES — $461,628 · OtherFLIC VOTES INC — $450,000 · Other+72 more — $6,093,270 · Other+72 moreNEO Philanthropy Inc — $3,890,809 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthro…CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $3,750,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR AME…AB FOUNDATION — $1,145,000 · Public BenefitAB FOUNDATIONNEW LEFT ACCELERATOR — $605,000 · Public BenefitNEW LEFT ACCEL…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION — $590,000 · Public Benefit+12 more — $1,141,000 · Public Benefit+12 moreENVIRONMENT AMERICA INC — $3,400,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT A…ENERGY ACTION FUND — $1,906,587 · EnvironmentENERGY ACTION…The Partnership Project Action Fund — $1,700,000 · EnvironmentThe Partnersh…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND — $1,580,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL…FOOD & WATER ACTION FUND — $775,700 · EnvironmentFOOD & WATER …SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $354,357 · Environment+3 more — $365,000 · EnvironmentFUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE INC — $2,750,000 · Community ImprovementBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC — $1,250,000 · Community ImprovementSHERIFF ACCOUNTABILITY ACTION — $735,000 · Community ImprovementNEW YORKERS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS INC — $300,738 · Community ImprovementAnnie's List Training and Engagement Fund — $200,000 · Community Improvement+12 more — $690,000 · Community ImprovementLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $565,000 · Human ServicesNCAAT IN ACTION — $275,000 · Human ServicesDOWN HOME NC — $275,000 · Human ServicesCASA IN ACTION INC — $165,000 · Human ServicesNILC IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND — $70,000 · Human ServicesBRAZILIAN POLICY CENTER INC — $62,750 · Human Services+11 more — $251,000 · Human ServicesAsian Law Caucus — $1,398,000 · Crime & LegalACCOUNTABLE JUSTICE ACTION FUND — $200,000 · Crime & LegalEmancipate NC Inc — $65,000 · Crime & Legal
Civil Rights$40,533,607Other$13,359,898Public Benefit$11,121,809Environment$10,081,644Community Improvement$5,925,738Human Services$1,663,750Crime & Legal$1,663,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $26,550,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $3,890,809 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $3,750,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetENVIRONMENT AMERICA INC — $3,400,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetFUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE INC — $2,750,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPRIORITIES USA — $2,000,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetENERGY ACTION FUND — $1,906,587 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetThe Partnership Project Action Fund — $1,700,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND — $1,580,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNRDC ACTION FUND INC — $1,450,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetAsian Law Caucus — $1,398,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC — $1,250,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetNEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION — $1,230,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAB FOUNDATION — $1,145,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetACRONYM — $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY — $910,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetNAKASEC ACTION FUND — $849,000 over 5y, 99% of budgetWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC — $800,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFOOD & WATER ACTION FUND — $775,700 over 2y, 26% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC — $755,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetSHERIFF ACCOUNTABILITY ACTION — $735,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT — $675,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC — $665,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPROGRESS NOW INC — $657,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetNEW LEFT ACCELERATOR — $605,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION — $590,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $565,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION INC — $550,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetAmerican Business Immigration Coalition Action — $540,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetAMERICA'S VOICE — $490,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetGLAHR ACTION NETWORK — $485,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES — $461,628 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIEMBRA NC — $454,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetFLIC VOTES INC — $450,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND — $410,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetFORWARD ACTION FUND — $403,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $354,357 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Coalition for Progressive Values — $354,000 over 4y, 91% of budgetBLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION — $340,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetARIZONA WINS — $300,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC — $300,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCAROLINA FEDERATION — $275,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNCAAT IN ACTION — $275,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetDOWN HOME NC — $275,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCIRC ACTION FUND — $275,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetVerified VotingOrg Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetCLIMATE REALITY ACTION FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSTATE POWER ACTION FUND — $250,000 over 2y, 7.9% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundTides AdvocacyAll Hands on Deck Net…Way to Win Action Fun…America VotesOpen Society Action F…Women Donors Network …The Heising-Simons Ac…State Engagement FundCenter for Community …Pro-Democracy CampaignNEO Philanthropy Inc
Sixteen Thirty FundDC136.5× affinity84 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · State Engagement Fund · Center for Community Change Action · Pro-Democracy Campaign · NEO Philanthropy Inc

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 NEO Philanthropy Action Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to NEO Philanthropy Action Fund 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 206 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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