How much did OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC grant in FY2024?

Civil Rights$173MPublic Benefit$89MCommunity Improvement$60MEnvironment$58MHuman Services$34MEducation$17MInternational$17MHealth$8.7MPhilanthropy$5.7MOther$278M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

meaning sectioncapitalhandsresearch voterroad buildsbuilds powerpower immigrant

2021

tacoma needleneedle exchangesyringe exchangedave purchaseadvocates equalityaddressingwellness

2022

collaborativeregistration civicmenadfa-afeconomic healthhong kongpal

2023

welfare activitiesgrantee's welfarenonpartisan civicgrantees welfarefederal legislationdebt relieffiscally sponsored

2024

welfare activitiesgrantee's welfarenonpartisan civicgrantee's nonpartisanukrainegrantees welfarerazom

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 199 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$50k–250k40 grants · $5.7M
$250k+158 grants · $150M

$400,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

OUR AMERICAN FUTURE ACTION$16,364,341
AMERICA VOTES$9,000,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC$5,560,000
DRUG POLICY ACTION$5,000,000
EQUIS LABS$5,000,000
WORKMONEY INC$5,000,000
ACCELERATE ACTION INC$4,200,000
FLORIDIANS PROTECTING FREEDOM$4,000,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$3,000,000
FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION$3,000,000
BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION$2,500,000
WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND$2,250,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC$2,000,000
STATE DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS ACTION$2,000,000
ARIZONA FOR ABORTION ACCESS$1,999,999

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $32.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$659M · 226 repeat orgs$83M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

226 repeat relationships — 123 still active in FY2024, 103 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

226

162

Total granted

$659M

$60M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%

+31%

Still filing today

93%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsInternationalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

ST
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND
5× · 2020–2024 · $57M · revenue +255%
AV
AMERICA VOTES
5× · 2020–2024 · $50M · revenue +288%
FF
FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION
4× · 2021–2024 · $39M · revenue +8806% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

RF
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL COMMITTEE
one grant, 2022 · $4.5M · revenue -100%
OU
OHIOANS UNITED FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS PAC
one grant, 2023 · $4.0M
WA
WORKING AMERICAgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $2.3M · revenue +169%

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.

Civicus World Alliance for Citizen

Civicus is a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.

Youth Development

Fdd Action

Advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. national security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement

United for a Fair Economy Inc

United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power by using popular economics education, trainings and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy.

Social Science

Democracy Works Inc

Improving civic participation by simplifying and modernizing the voting process for voters and election administrators.

Civil Rights

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

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

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

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

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

Powerswitch Action

National network forging multiracial feminist democracies and economies.

Community Improvement

Issue One

Leads & advocates crosspartisan political reform to build an inclusive democracy.

Public Benefit

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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.

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 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%12/428

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,137

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.

05the grantee network

383 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

150

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

133

Early backer (in before they grew)

371/383

Grantees still filing

263/383

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$309,766,219Civil Rights$173,085,818Public Benefit$89,009,681Community Improvement$60,306,321Environment$58,265,000Human Services$34,176,000Education$17,249,989

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

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 FundDC190.9× affinity144 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · America Votes · Women Donors Network Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund · North Fund · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · American Federation of State County · Center for Community Change Action · The Heising-Simons Action Fund

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 organisation OPEN SOCIETY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 822007387 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Open Society Action Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Open Society Action Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

383 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Open Society Action Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

383 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Open Society Action Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph