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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Annie's List Training and Engagement Fund$200,000
Asian American Advocacy Fund Inc$200,000
American Business Immigration Coalition Action$200,000
Voces De La Frontera Action Inc$200,000
Building Power for Communities of Color$185,000
Living United For Change In Arizona Inc$170,000
GLAHR Action Network$160,000
Leadership Conference On Civil and Human Rights Inc$150,000
TIRRC Votes$150,000
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 (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. Its 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
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

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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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

+61%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
How this is measured

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

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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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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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
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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
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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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Accion Politica Pcunista Dba Pcun

To promote civic participation.

Arts & Culture
7
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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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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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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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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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
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Nc for the People Action (formerly Nc Voters for Clean Elections)

To improve the election process by making the act of voting more accessible to citizens, to lessen the influence of money in politics and to generally make elected officials more responsive to the citizens of North Carolina.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Community Change Action; 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.
04the grantee network

187 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. 187 of the 206 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
179/187
Grantees still filing
101/187
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+74 more: $6,113,270 · Other+74 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 ImprovementAsian Law Caucus: $1,398,000 · Crime & LegalACCOUNTABLE JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $200,000 · Crime & LegalEmancipate NC Inc: $65,000 · Crime & LegalLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $565,000 · Human ServicesDOWN HOME NC: $275,000 · Human ServicesNCAAT IN ACTION: $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+9 more: $231,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$40,533,607Other$13,379,898Public Benefit$11,121,809Environment$10,081,644Community Improvement$5,925,738Crime & Legal$1,663,000Human Services$1,643,750

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetDOWN HOME NC: $275,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCAROLINA FEDERATION: $275,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCIRC ACTION FUND: $275,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetNCAAT IN ACTION: $275,000 over 4y, 4.7% 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
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.

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

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 NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 206 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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