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Our American Future Action

OUR AMERICAN FUTURE ACTION is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization dedicated to building a future that is full of opportunity for all.

$183M
Granted FY2025still arriving
119
Grants FY2025still arriving
27
States reached
$49M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.

Public Benefit$208MCivil Rights$48MEnvironment$12MEducation$12MEmployment$10MHuman Services$8.6MCrime & Legal$6.3MArts & Culture$2.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k40 grants · $4.7M
  • $250k+71 grants · $178M
$250,000
Median grant
27
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION$48,800,000
EVIDENCE FOR IMPACT$10,000,000
AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY ACTION$9,750,000
HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD$8,201,140
PRO-DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN$7,800,000
BRICK BY BRICK FOUNDATION$7,000,000
FLORIDIANS PROTECTING FREEDOM$5,000,000
SEARCHLIGHT INSTITUTE$5,000,000
WORKMONEY$5,000,000
NEVADA ALLIANCE$4,675,000
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION$4,500,000
RESILIENCE AND RENEWAL FUND$4,250,000
MISSOURIANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM$4,150,000
DEMOCRACY PLANNING AND ENHANCEMENT FUND$3,750,000
WORKING AMERICA$3,550,000
02The need
03

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 (FY24–25, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Georgia First Inc: $25k → 12%North Star Prosperity: $1.3M → 14%Moms Rising Together: $1.0M → 9%Make The Road States Inc: $40k → 20%MOMSRISING: $100k → 9%ACCOUNTABILITY LAB: $200k → 14%TAKE CREATIVE CONTROL INC: $140k → 14%EFFECTIVE GOVERNING COALITION: $100k → 14%Reproductive Freedom for All: $1.0M → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — 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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$168M · 31 repeat orgs$142M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 85 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
94

Total granted

$168M
$57M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

87%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +73%
  • AV
    America Votes
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +133%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ACTION FUND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $850k · revenue +24% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEADERSHIP NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $7.2M
  • SE
    STATE ENGAGEMENT FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $4.0M · revenue 0%
  • TW
    The Wisconsin Initiative PAC
    one grant, 2024 · $2.5M

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.

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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
2
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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3
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
4
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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5
Coalition for Dc Representation in Congress Education Fund

Founded in 1998, dc vote is a national citizen engagement and advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening democracy and securing equality for all in the district of columbia.

Education
6
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
7
Issue One Action

Issue one action is uniting republicans, democrats, and independents to protect our elections and fix our political system. we are committed to free, fair, and secure elections and reducing the influence of well-financed special interests…

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8
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
9
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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10
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

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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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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Destination Liberation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducation Equity LeadershipPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Asian American Advocacy & H…Community Arts OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersJewish Community FederationsGovernment Accountability R…
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 8 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%25%<5yr14%33%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr16%8%35–55yr15%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%20%<5yr14%61%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr18%6%20–35yr16%1%35–55yr15%2%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 25% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/217
the rest of the field
13%
1,600/12,784

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.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 181 of the 217 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
180/181
Grantees still filing
55/181
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EVIDENCE FOR IMPACT — $10,000,000 · OtherEVIDENCE FOR IMPACTAMERICAN OPPORTUNITY ACTION — $9,750,000 · OtherAMERICAN OPPORTUNITY ACTIONBRICK BY BRICK FOUNDATION — $7,000,000 · OtherBRICK BY BRICK FOUNDATIONDEMOCRACY PLANNING & ENHANCEMENT FUND — $6,250,000 · OtherWORKMONEY INC — $5,500,000 · OtherCitizens Not Politicians — $5,450,000 · OtherUNRIG OUR ECONOMY INC — $5,337,000 · OtherFLORIDIANS PROTECTING FREEDOM — $5,000,000 · OtherSEARCHLIGHT INSTITUTE — $5,000,000 · OtherNEVADA ALLIANCE — $4,675,000 · Other+93 more — $64,842,544 · Other+93 moreFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION — $90,933,333 · Public BenefitFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTIONSTATE ENGAGEMENT FUND — $4,000,000 · Public Benefit+18 more — $8,793,500 · Public Benefit+18 morePRO-DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN — $7,800,000 · Civil RightsPRO-DEMOCRACY C…PRIORITIES USA — $7,600,000 · Civil RightsPRIORITIES USAWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $5,000,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIE…UNITED FOR DEMOCRACY — $2,850,000 · Civil RightsUNITED FOR DEMO…ACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $2,079,000 · Civil RightsSTATES UNITED ACTION — $2,000,000 · Civil Rights+39 more — $15,627,500 · Civil Rights+39 moreHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD — $8,951,140 · Community ImprovementAmerica Votes — $2,685,000 · Community ImprovementTHE JUSTICE PROJECT ACTION — $2,650,000 · Community Improvement+8 more — $1,725,000 · Community ImprovementTHE LEADERSHIP NETWORK — $7,200,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $1,500,000 · EducationCivic Nation — $1,000,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $1,000,000 · EducationDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE — $1,000,000 · EducationRISE ACTION FUND — $500,000 · Education+4 more — $460,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND — $3,500,000 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $2,410,000 · EnvironmentPUBLIC DEMOCRACY AMERICA — $1,150,000 · Environment+1 more — $200,000 · EnvironmentNORTH STAR PROSPERITY — $1,335,500 · Human ServicesMOMSRISING TOGETHER — $1,100,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesDOWN HOME NC — $200,000 · Human ServicesTake Creative Control Inc — $140,000 · Human Services+1 more — $100,000 · Human Services
Other$128,804,544Public Benefit$103,726,833Civil Rights$42,956,500Community Improvement$16,011,140Education$12,660,000Environment$7,260,000Human Services$4,075,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION — $90,933,333 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetEVIDENCE FOR IMPACT — $10,000,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD — $8,951,140 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPRO-DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN — $7,800,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPRIORITIES USA — $7,600,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP NETWORK — $7,200,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBRICK BY BRICK FOUNDATION — $7,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDEMOCRACY PLANNING & ENHANCEMENT FUND — $6,250,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetWORKMONEY INC — $5,500,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCitizens Not Politicians — $5,450,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetUNRIG OUR ECONOMY INC — $5,337,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $5,000,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMissourians for Constitutional Freedom — $4,150,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSTATE ENGAGEMENT FUND — $4,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWORKING AMERICA — $3,800,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND — $3,500,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetArticle IV — $3,405,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED FOR DEMOCRACY — $2,850,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetAmerica Votes — $2,685,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE JUSTICE PROJECT ACTION — $2,650,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND — $2,500,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $2,410,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $2,079,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetSTATES UNITED ACTION — $2,000,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetDEMOCRACYFIRST — $2,000,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT — $1,785,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBETTER PENNSYLVANIA INC — $1,700,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION — $1,650,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $1,500,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFair Future NC — $1,420,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetNORTH STAR PROSPERITY — $1,335,500 over 1y, 41% of budgetPOWER RISING ACTION FUND — $1,250,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $1,200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGlobal Impact Social Welfare Fund — $1,200,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPUBLIC DEMOCRACY AMERICA — $1,150,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetNEW DAY NEVADA — $1,120,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetADVANCE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC — $1,105,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION — $1,100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMOMSRISING TOGETHER — $1,100,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCivic Nation — $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE — $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAll Americans Vote — $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetAMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budget
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 FundOpen Society Action F…America VotesHopewell FundWay to Win Action Fun…Tides AdvocacyNorth FundDemocracy Fund Voice …Women Donors Network …All Hands on Deck Net…Global Impact Social …Future Forward USA Ac…
Sixteen Thirty FundDC133.8× affinity83 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Hopewell Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · North Fund · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · Women Donors Network Action · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · Future Forward USA Action

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 organization Our American Future Action 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%your 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
9report 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

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 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Our American Future Action?

Find your warmest path to Our American Future Action 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 217 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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