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· Public charity

Open Society Action Fund Inc

To promote social justice and human rights through domestic and foreign policy advocacy.

$171M
Granted FY2024still arriving
203
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$16M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$330MCivil Rights$278MEnvironment$53MInternational$23MHuman Services$20MHealth$13MPhilanthropy$11MCrime & Legal$10MOther$0
02FY2024 · 203 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 203 grants below total $159,624,297, the rows itemized in this filing. The $170,802,412 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,178,115 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k40 grants · $5.7M
  • $250k+162 grants · $154M
$400,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WORKMONEY INC$5,000,000
EQUIS LABS$5,000,000
ACCELERATE ACTION INC$4,200,000
FLORIDIANS PROTECTING FREEDOM$4,000,000
FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION$3,000,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$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
STATE DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS ACTION$2,000,000
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, $33.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $600k → 11%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $5.0M → 8%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $600k → 11%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $4.2M → 8%MOMSRISING TOGETHER: $1.0M → 9%PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $136k → 8%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $4.2M → 8%MOMSRISING TOGETHER: $1.0M → 9%PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $130k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA A PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $425k → 8%DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA: $400k → 16%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $2.5M → 8%MOMSRISING TOGETHER: $200k → 9%NCAAT IN ACTION: $300k → 8%DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA: $400k → 16%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $500k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA A PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $425k → 8%DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA: $300k → 16%NCAAT IN ACTION: $300k → 8%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $2.0M → 14%RECOVERY ADVOCACY PROJECT: $200k → 13%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $350k → 8%RECOVERY ADVOCACY PROJECT: $110k → 13%NILC IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $750k → 14%RECOVERY ADVOCACY PROJECT: $100k → 13%RECOVERY ADVOCACY PROJECT: $50k → 13%NILC IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $150k → 14%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $50k → 19%VOCAL-NY ACTION FUND: $450k → 20%VOCAL-NY ACTION FUND: $200k → 20%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%THE NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INC: $250k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%CLIMATE JOBS NY INC: $100k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $145k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $145k → 17%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER INC: $1.2M → 17%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $300k → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $200k → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $200k → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $200k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $2.0M → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $120k → 14%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $750k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $500k → 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

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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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Open Society Action Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Open Society Action Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$599M · 220 repeat orgs$82M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

220 repeat relationships: 121 still active in FY2024, 99 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

220
157

Total granted

$599M
$59M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-7%

Still filing today

93%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsInternationalPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • AV
    America Votes
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50M · revenue +495%
  • FF
    FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $39M · revenue ×47 · 42% of their budget
  • OA
    OUR AMERICAN FUTURE ACTION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $34M · revenue +979%

Funded once

  • RF
    REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL
    one grant, 2022 · $4.5M · revenue -100%
  • OU
    Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights
    one grant, 2023 · $4.0M
  • WA
    WORKING AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2.3M · revenue +142%
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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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
2
Fdd Action

FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Democracy Forward

See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.

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Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
6
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
7
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
8
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
9
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
10
One for Democracy Action Fund

One for democracy unlocks resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time.

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11
Right to Democracy Action

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in u.s. territories, including by promoting civic engagement among the territorial diaspora throughout the united states.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Economic Security Project Action Inc; the most unlike its peers is Source Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

387 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 387 of the 427 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.

157
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
90
Early backer (in before they grew)
376/387
Grantees still filing
191/387
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR AMERICAN FUTURE ACTION: $34,419,341 · OtherOUR AMERICAN FUTURE ACTIONTIDES ADVOCACY: $28,345,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYEQUISLABS: $21,488,000 · OtherEQUISLABSWORKMONEY INC: $17,500,000 · OtherWORKMONEY INCAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC: $15,560,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INCCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $10,195,000 · Other+92 more: $147,872,742 · Other+92 moreWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC: $27,500,000 · Civil RightsWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INCWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $20,065,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZAT…DRUG POLICY ACTION: $16,250,000 · Civil RightsDRUG POLICY ACTIONNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $11,985,215 · Civil RightsNEO Philanthropy Action Fu…Care in Action Inc: $9,350,000 · Civil RightsCare in Action IncONE Action: $6,750,000 · Civil Rights+51 more: $75,614,618 · Civil Rights+51 moreFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION: $38,680,000 · Public BenefitFUTURE FORWARD…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $13,450,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR COM…STATE ENGAGEMENT FUND: $7,175,000 · Public BenefitSTATE ENGAGEME…NORTH FUND: $6,232,000 · Public BenefitNORTH FUNDDEMAND JUSTICE: $4,900,000 · Public BenefitDEMAND JUSTICECENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND: $3,505,000 · Public Benefit+12 more: $13,745,000 · Public Benefit+12 moreSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $68,150,000 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THI…+1 more: $950,000 · EnvironmentAmerica Votes: $49,525,000 · Community ImprovementAmerica V…+6 more: $6,845,000 · Community Improvement+6 moreACCELERATE ACTION INC: $16,400,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $3,250,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $2,350,000 · Human ServicesMOMSRISING TOGETHER: $2,200,000 · Human ServicesCASA IN ACTION INC: $1,440,000 · Human ServicesLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $1,200,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Voices Heard Power Inc: $1,200,000 · Human Services+6 more: $5,120,000 · Human ServicesFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $4,500,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $3,570,000 · EducationMoveOnorg Civic Action: $3,200,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $1,670,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $1,200,000 · Education
Other$275,380,083Civil Rights$167,514,833Public Benefit$87,687,000Environment$69,100,000Community Improvement$56,370,000Human Services$33,160,000Education$14,140,000

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $68,150,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetAmerica Votes: $49,525,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION: $38,680,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetOUR AMERICAN FUTURE ACTION: $34,419,341 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $28,345,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC: $27,500,000 over 5y, 73% of budgetEQUISLABS: $21,488,000 over 4y, 93% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $20,065,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetWORKMONEY INC: $17,500,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetACCELERATE ACTION INC: $16,400,000 over 5y, 87% of budgetDRUG POLICY ACTION: $16,250,000 over 4y, 95% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC: $15,560,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $13,450,000 over 5y, 45% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $11,985,215 over 5y, 37% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $10,195,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetCare in Action Inc: $9,350,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $7,650,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetSTATE ENGAGEMENT FUND: $7,175,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetONE Action: $6,750,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetNORTH FUND: $6,232,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetFLORIDIANS PROTECTING FREEDOM: $5,500,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetINDIVISIBLE PROJECT: $5,010,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS ACTION D/B/A DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS ACTION: $5,000,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL SECURITY ACTION: $4,900,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetDEMAND JUSTICE: $4,900,000 over 2y, 76% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $4,885,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC: $4,525,000 over 4y, 57% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $4,500,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $4,500,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetFORWARD ACTION FUND: $4,150,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetOhioans United for Reproductive Rights: $4,000,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION: $4,000,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $3,900,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM ACTION: $3,800,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetVERA ACTION INC: $3,750,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $3,570,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND: $3,505,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $3,250,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMoveOnorg Civic Action: $3,200,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetJ STREET: $3,200,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetARIZONA WINS: $2,965,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetUnited for Respect: $2,700,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetEmgage Action Inc: $2,550,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetAlianza For progress inc: $2,525,000 over 4y, 75% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $2,510,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMORE PERFECT UNION ACTION: $2,450,000 over 4y, 72% of budgetLATINO VICTORY PROJECT: $2,350,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $2,350,000 over 2y, 21% 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 FundWay to Win Action Fun…Tides AdvocacyAmerica VotesAll Hands on Deck Net…Women Donors Network …NEO Philanthropy Acti…North FundOur American Future A…Democracy Fund Voice …Pro-Democracy CampaignCenter for Community …
Sixteen Thirty FundDC204.5× affinity160 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 · America Votes · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Women Donors Network Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · North Fund · Our American Future Action · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Center for Community Change Action

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
5report 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 Open Society Action Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Open Society 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 427 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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