How much does North Fund give?

North Fund reported 70 grants totaling $33,964,221 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 70 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does North Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (84%), Public Benefit (12%), Environment (2%).

Who are North Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Future Forward USA Action ($6.7M), Your Community PAC ($5.7M), Run for Something Action Fund ($5.0M).

Does North Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as North Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Open Society Action Fund Inc.

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North Fund

The NORTH FUND partners with committed community leaders to help make our country a more just, fair, and equitable place to live, work, and raise families.(cont. On schedule o)the NORTH FUND focuses on supporting innovative social entrepreneurship, educational initiatives, and advocacy campaigns that lift up communities and create real…

$34M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 70
Grants FY2024: 70
Organizations funded FY2023: 49%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $200,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $5,700,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 70; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 25
Total assets, FY2024: $51M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 49% of the organizations North Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	66	$27M	39%
FY2023	70	$20M	49%
FY2022	59	$21M	59%
FY2021	55	$9.0M	84%
FY2020	60	$33M	98%
FY2019	2	$1.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$110MPublic Benefit$15MEnvironment$3.2MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHealth$751kPhilanthropy$500kEmployment$150kHuman Services$115kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Future Forward USA Action	$6,736,650	1	n/a
Your Community PAC	$5,700,000	1	n/a
Run for Something Action Fund	$5,000,000	4	74%
New Approach Montana	$4,727,500	1	69%
Advance American Democracy Inc	$4,512,000	3	69%
Colorado Families First	$4,400,000	1	53%
Somos PAC	$4,100,000	1	n/a
Workmoney Inc	$3,350,000	3	5%
Keep Country First Policy Action Inc	$2,700,000	3	57%
New Left Accelerator	$2,700,000	3	47%

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All grantees of North Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Future Forward USA Action	$6,736,650	1	n/a
Your Community PAC	$5,700,000	1	n/a
Run for Something Action Fund	$5,000,000	4	74%
New Approach Montana	$4,727,500	1	69%
Advance American Democracy Inc	$4,512,000	3	69%
Colorado Families First	$4,400,000	1	53%
Somos PAC	$4,100,000	1	n/a
Workmoney Inc	$3,350,000	3	5%
Keep Country First Policy Action Inc	$2,700,000	3	57%
New Left Accelerator	$2,700,000	3	47%
Missourians for Healthcare	$2,413,370	2	27%
Rewiring America	$2,400,000	1	6%
Ohio Progressive Collaborative	$2,325,000	4	41%
Michigan Civic Action Fund	$2,255,000	4	9%
Make North Carolina First	$2,196,500	4	16%
Secure Democracy	$2,000,000	2	19%
Ohioans for Raising the Wage	$1,657,277	1	78%
Emerge America	$1,550,000	3	n/a
A Better Wisconsin Together Inc	$1,520,000	4	7%
America Votes	$1,450,000	2	1%
Abortion Access for All	$1,350,000	1	14%
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mi	$1,300,000	4	37%
Humanity Forward Inc	$1,300,000	3	22%
Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc	$1,250,000	4	10%
Accelerate Action Inc	$1,250,000	3	9%
Care in Action Inc	$1,200,000	4	5%
Arizona Advocacy Network	$1,072,614	1	56%
Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc	$1,000,000	1	3%
Clean Missouri	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Western Organization of Resource Councils	$995,000	1	14%
Texas Freedom Network	$950,500	4	47%
Dirt Road Organizing	$780,000	2	68%
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	$750,000	2	5%
Protect Colorados Recovery	$750,000	1	36%
Abortion Forward	$738,500	2	50%
Avow Inc	$711,000	4	37%
Future Now Action	$650,000	2	3%
One Person One Vote	$650,000	1	3%
The Ohio Organizing Campaign	$650,000	2	5%
Common Cause	$625,250	3	2%
Pennsylvanians for Judicial Fairness	$600,000	1	n/a
Kansans for Constitutional Freedom Inc	$585,000	2	100%
Center for Civic Action	$576,000	4	15%
Deeds Action Fund	$550,000	3	83%
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Action Fund Inc	$545,000	4	8%
Pa Alliance Action	$530,000	2	4%
Montana Values Action Fund	$500,000	1	n/a
Forward Mt	$500,000	2	14%
Mothering Justice Action Fund	$500,000	4	87%
Arena Summit	$500,000	2	35%
Unite America Inc	$500,000	1	5%
Keep Kansas Courts Impartial Inc	$500,000	1	31%
Coloradans for Prosperity	$500,000	1	11%
Public Private Strategies Institute	$450,000	2	5%
Red Wine & Blue	$400,000	2	5%
Progress Georgia Inc	$400,000	2	9%
National Women's Law Center Action Fund	$400,000	1	n/a
Reproductive Freedom for All	$400,000	1	3%
American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan	$400,000	3	8%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$400,000	2	n/a
Groundswell Action Fund	$400,000	1	10%
New Pennsylvania Project	$400,000	2	10%
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice	$376,000	2	38%
Progress North Carolina Action	$375,000	2	65%
State Democracy Action Fund	$375,000	1	29%
Ohio Womens Alliance Action Fund	$375,000	2	44%
League of Conservation Voters Inc	$357,500	2	0%
Glpa-Lead	$350,000	2	27%
Middle Fork Strategies Inc	$325,000	2	25%
One Country Inc	$311,400	2	24%
Progressnow New Mexico	$305,000	3	24%
Unidosus Action Fund Inc	$300,000	2	33%
Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates Inc	$300,000	1	n/a
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc	$300,000	2	12%
Engage Common Sense Solutions	$300,000	1	n/a
Secure Democracy USA	$260,000	1	5%
Opportunity Arizona	$250,000	1	13%
Emerge Action Fund	$250,000	1	23%
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Inc	$250,000	2	4%
Innovation Ohio	$250,000	1	15%
Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights	$250,000	1	1%
Yes On National Popular Vote	$250,000	1	8%
Kansas Values Institute	$250,000	1	31%
Center for Empowered Politics	$225,000	2	2%
Forward Together Action	$225,000	2	15%
Planned Parenthood Texas Votes	$225,000	2	12%
Our Voice Our Vote Arizona	$221,600	1	16%
Alliance for a Better Minnesota	$220,000	1	11%
Tides Advocacy	$215,000	1	0%
North Carolinians Against Gun Violence Action Fund	$212,500	3	39%
Better Future for New Mexico	$200,000	1	n/a
Commonwealth Alliance Action Fund	$200,000	1	15%
Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom	$200,000	1	3%
Action for Liberation	$200,000	1	7%
State Policy Institute	$200,000	1	n/a
Mississippi Votes Action Fund Corporation	$200,000	2	11%
Prosperity Michigan Inc	$200,000	1	11%
In Our Own Voice Action Fund	$200,000	1	100%
Equality New Mexico	$190,000	3	83%
Ceasefire Pennsylvania	$175,000	2	57%
Common Defense Civic Engagement Inc	$165,250	2	5%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$165,000	1	0%
Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence Inc	$155,000	2	96%
Count Mi Vote	$155,000	2	13%
Business for Americas Future Fund	$153,000	1	14%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc	$150,000	1	53%
El Centro Poder y Accion	$150,000	2	20%
Free Fair PA	$150,000	1	51%
Emerge New Mexico	$150,000	2	n/a
9to5 Action Fund	$150,000	1	60%
Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc	$150,000	1	4%
Justice for Generations	$150,000	1	n/a
People's Action	$150,000	1	3%
Forward Action Fund	$140,000	1	5%
The Urban Institute	$137,993	1	0%
Committee on States	$125,000	3	1%
Texas Organizing Project	$125,000	1	5%
Gun Violence Prevention Action Committee	$125,000	2	14%
Alliance for Justice Action Campaign	$110,000	1	14%
Usagainstalzheimer's Action	$104,500	1	14%
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Inc	$100,000	1	94%
A Better Big Sky	$100,000	1	5%
Equality Michigan Action Network	$100,000	1	30%
Living United for Change in Arizona	$100,000	1	1%
All In Action Fund	$100,000	1	16%
Montanans for Choice Take Action	$100,000	1	99%
Americans for Contraception	$100,000	1	1%
Project Keystone	$100,000	1	14%
Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates	$100,000	1	6%
Georgia Equality Inc	$100,000	1	43%
Colorado Ceasefire Legislative Action	$95,000	2	64%
Organizers in the Land of Enchantment	$90,000	1	8%
Third Way	$85,405	2	0%
Trust Us Justice Fund Inc	$85,000	1	39%
States Newsroom	$85,000	1	1%
Engage Miami Inc	$80,000	2	2%
New America Foundation	$80,000	1	0%
Oregon Alliance to Prevent Gun Violence	$76,330	2	34%
Progress Michigan Inc	$75,000	1	2%
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Inc	$75,000	1	5%
Lubbock Coalition for Healthcare Access	$75,000	1	n/a
Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Action Fund	$75,000	1	6%
Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania	$75,000	1	8%
Equality Federation	$75,000	1	4%
For Our Future Action Fund	$75,000	1	1%
Working America	$75,000	1	1%
North Carolina a Philip Randolph Educational Fund	$65,000	1	n/a
Missouri Win	$60,000	1	6%
Houston in Action	$60,000	1	1%
Prodigal Child Project Pcp	$50,000	1	36%
Planned Parenthood Votes	$50,000	1	n/a
Amplify New Hampshire	$50,000	1	4%
National Alliance for Caregiving	$50,000	1	3%
Fair Fight Action Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Takeaction Minnesota	$50,000	1	1%
Western Conservation Action	$50,000	1	1%
Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence Inc	$50,000	1	60%
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Faith in Public Life Action Fund	$50,000	1	7%
Casa in Action Inc	$50,000	1	4%
Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence Education Fund Inc	$50,000	1	44%
Progress Arizona	$50,000	1	2%
The Bell Action Network	$45,000	1	16%
Gender Justice Action	$40,000	1	11%
Free Press Action Fund	$40,000	1	5%
Drum Majors for Change Inc	$36,400	1	12%
Reproductive Equity Now Inc	$36,000	1	11%
Pro-Choice North Carolina	$36,000	1	14%
Abortion Action Missouri	$36,000	1	5%
Pro-Choice Minnesota	$36,000	1	13%
Pro-Choice Washington	$36,000	1	8%
Pro Choice Virginia	$36,000	1	10%
Worker Power	$30,000	2	0%
The Tech Oversight Project	$30,000	1	3%
New Mexico Senate Democrats	$25,000	1	n/a
Citizen Action of New York Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Promote the Vote Inc	$25,000	1	3%
For West Virginia's Future Inc	$25,000	1	1%
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Education Fund Inc	$25,000	1	3%
New York State Immigrant Action Fund Incorporated	$25,000	1	4%
National League of Cities	$25,000	1	0%
St Sabina Church	$20,000	1	n/a
Six Action	$20,000	1	4%
Human Rights Campaign Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Unite Oregon Action	$16,500	1	6%
Working Families Organization Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Planned Parenthood of Nm	$10,400	1	n/a
Progressive State Leaders Committee Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Sunrise Movement	$10,000	1	0%
Arizona Students' Association	$10,000	1	n/a
River Phoenix Center for Peace Building Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Black Women for Wellness Action Project	$10,000	1	8%
National Black Justice Coalition Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Black Male Voter Project	$10,000	1	n/a
Sc Progressive Network Education Fund	$10,000	1	4%
Spark Reproductive Justice Now	$10,000	1	0%
Arizona Coalition for Change	$10,000	1	1%
FSIC American Innovation and Opportunity Fund	$10,000	1	n/a
Alliance of Families for Justice Inc	$10,000	1	1%
The Fairness Project	$10,000	1	0%
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Association for Public Justice	$10,000	1	n/a

North Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 46 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 177 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 177.

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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 FundDC171.7× affinity107 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · Our American Future Action · State Engagement Fund · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Strategic Victory Fund · Grove Action Fund

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.

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About North Fund

How much does North Fund give?: North Fund reported 70 grants totaling $33,964,221 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 70 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does North Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (84%), Public Benefit (12%), Environment (2%).
Who are North Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Future Forward USA Action ($6.7M), Your Community PAC ($5.7M), Run for Something Action Fund ($5.0M).
Does North Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as North Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Open Society Action Fund Inc.
Where is North Fund based?: North Fund is based in DC.