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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.

$34M
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$5.7M
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$110MPublic Benefit$15MEnvironment$3.2MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHealth$751kPhilanthropy$500kEmployment$150kHuman Services$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $291k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+32 grants · $30M
$200,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUR COMMUNITY PAC$5,700,000
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND$5,291,332
REWIRING AMERICA INC$2,400,000
GLOBAL IMPACT SOCIAL WELFARE FUND$1,671,484
ADVANCE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC$1,250,000
MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND$1,250,000
RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND$1,250,000
MAKE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST$1,245,000
WESTERN ORGANIZATION RESOURCE COUNCIL$995,000
OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE$750,000
NEW LEFT ACCELERATOR$700,000
KEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION$700,000
HUMANITY FORWARD$650,000
GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND$600,000
DIRT ROAD ORGANIZING$530,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES: $225k → 9%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $25k → 14%A PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $65k → 8%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $600k → 14%CASA IN ACTION INC: $50k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $100k → 11%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $500k → 16%MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES: $100k → 9%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $250k → 14%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $500k → 16%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $250k → 14%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $250k → 16%FORWARD TOGETHER ACTION: $150k → 10%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $150k → 14%FORWARD TOGETHER: $75k → 10%EMERGE ACTION FUND: $250k → 10%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND: $25k → 17%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING: $50k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $400k → 14%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

ME
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59M · 70 repeat orgs$51M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
106

Total granted

$59M
$38M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

93%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • RF
    RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +284% · 74% of their budget
  • WI
    WORKMONEY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3.4M · revenue +441%
  • MC
    MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • FF
    FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6.7M · revenue ×89
  • NA
    New Approach Montana
    one grant, 2020 · $4.7M · 69% of their budget
  • CF
    COLORADO FAMILIES FIRST
    one grant, 2020 · $4.4M · 53% of their budget
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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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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2
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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3
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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4
Act for America

Advocacy concerning democratic values, national security and defense; lobbying of government officials in favor of policies that further the defense of the u.s. and its constitution; development of coalitions with other organizations to…

Civil Rights
5
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
6
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
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Fair Democracy

Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…

Civil Rights
8
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
RepresentUs

RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…

Public Benefit
11
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware Inc

The organization monitors legislation that could impact civil liberties and takes the necessary action to support or oppose such legislation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith in Public Life Action Fund; the most unlike its peers is Yes On National Popular Vote. 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

191 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. 191 of the 208 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.

46
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
178/191
Grantees still filing
92/191
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUR COMMUNITY PAC: $5,700,000 · OtherYOUR COMMUNITY PACNew Approach Montana: $4,727,500 · OtherNew Approach MontanaADVANCE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC: $4,512,000 · OtherADVANCE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INCCOLORADO FAMILIES FIRST: $4,400,000 · OtherCOLORADO FAMILIES FIRSTSOMOS PAC: $4,100,000 · OtherSOMOS PACWORKMONEY INC: $3,350,000 · OtherWORKMONEY INCMISSOURIANS FOR HEALTHCARE: $2,413,370 · OtherOhio Progressive Collaborative: $2,325,000 · OtherMake North Carolina First: $2,196,500 · Other+88 more: $26,755,785 · Other+88 moreSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $19,066,332 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THIRTY FUNDREWIRING AMERICA: $2,400,000 · EnvironmentREWIRING AMERICA+3 more: $825,000 · EnvironmentKEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION INC: $2,700,000 · Civil RightsKEEP COUNTRY FIRST…MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $2,255,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN CIVIC ACT…A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $1,520,000 · Civil RightsA BETTER WISCONSIN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF MI: $1,300,000 · Civil RightsPLANNED PARENTHOOD…Care in Action Inc: $1,200,000 · Civil RightsCare in Action IncARIZONA ADVOCACY NETWORK: $1,072,614 · Civil RightsDIRT ROAD ORGANIZING: $780,000 · Civil RightsNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $750,000 · Civil Rights+49 more: $10,331,335 · Civil Rights+49 moreFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION: $6,736,650 · Public BenefitFUTURE FORWARD U…RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND: $5,000,000 · Public BenefitRUN FOR SOMETHIN…NEW LEFT ACCELERATOR: $2,700,000 · Public BenefitNEW LEFT ACCELER…Global Impact Social Welfare Fund: $1,671,484 · Public BenefitGlobal Impact So…FUTURE NOW ACTION: $650,000 · Public Benefit+11 more: $2,300,250 · Public Benefit+11 moreGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesACCELERATE ACTION INC: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $400,000 · Human ServicesMIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC: $325,000 · Human ServicesEMERGE ACTION FUND: $250,000 · Human ServicesFORWARD TOGETHER ACTION: $225,000 · Human Services+6 more: $315,000 · Human ServicesAmerica Votes: $1,450,000 · Community ImprovementKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $250,000 · Community ImprovementAlliance for a Better Minnesota: $220,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS FOR AMERICAS FUTURE FUND: $153,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION: $150,000 · Community ImprovementA BETTER BIG SKY: $100,000 · Community ImprovementORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: $90,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $90,000 · Community ImprovementPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $1,000,000 · HealthUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ACTION: $104,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD PENNSYLVANIA ADVOCATES: $100,000 · Health+1 more: $36,000 · Health
Other$60,480,155Environment$22,291,332Civil Rights$21,908,949Public Benefit$19,058,384Human Services$4,015,000Community Improvement$2,503,000Health$1,240,500

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 budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $19,066,332 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetRUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND: $5,000,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetNew Approach Montana: $4,727,500 over 1y, 69% of budgetADVANCE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC: $4,512,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetCOLORADO FAMILIES FIRST: $4,400,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetWORKMONEY INC: $3,350,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetKEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION INC: $2,700,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetNEW LEFT ACCELERATOR: $2,700,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetMISSOURIANS FOR HEALTHCARE: $2,413,370 over 2y, 27% of budgetREWIRING AMERICA: $2,400,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative: $2,325,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $2,255,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetMake North Carolina First: $2,196,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetSecure Democracy: $2,000,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetGlobal Impact Social Welfare Fund: $1,671,484 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOhioans for Raising the Wage: $1,657,277 over 1y, 78% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $1,520,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetAmerica Votes: $1,450,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL: $1,350,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF MI: $1,300,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetHUMANITY FORWARD INC: $1,300,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $1,250,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetACCELERATE ACTION INC: $1,250,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetCare in Action Inc: $1,200,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetARIZONA ADVOCACY NETWORK: $1,072,614 over 1y, 56% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS: $995,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK: $950,500 over 4y, 47% of budgetDIRT ROAD ORGANIZING: $780,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $750,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPROTECT COLORADOS RECOVERY: $750,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetABORTION FORWARD: $738,500 over 2y, 50% of budgetAvow Inc: $711,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetFUTURE NOW ACTION: $650,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetOne Person One Vote: $650,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $650,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $625,250 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKANSANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM INC: $585,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC ACTION: $576,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetDeeds Action Fund: $550,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS ACTION FUND INC: $545,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetPA ALLIANCE ACTION: $530,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFORWARD MT: $500,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $500,000 over 4y, 87% of budgetARENA SUMMIT: $500,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INC: $500,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEEP KANSAS COURTS IMPARTIAL INC: $500,000 over 1y, 31% 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 FundAmerica VotesOpen Society Action F…Tides AdvocacyAll Hands on Deck Net…Way to Win Action Fun…Women Donors Network …Our American Future A…State Engagement FundPro-Democracy CampaignStrategic Victory FundGrove Action Fund
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • National Black Justice Coalition Inc: 17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
6report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to North Fund?

Find your warmest path to North 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 208 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home