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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 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, FY2023 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SEARCHLIGHT INSTITUTE$5,000,000
FLORIDIANS PROTECTING FREEDOM$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

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 (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 its 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
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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OR
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MO
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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.
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.
$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
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

  • 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
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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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
11
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
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

181 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. 181 of the 217 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.

23
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
180/181
Grantees still filing
52/181
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+92 more: $64,802,544 · Other+92 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+40 more: $15,667,500 · Civil Rights+40 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 · EducationDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE: $1,000,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $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 ServicesDOWN HOME NC: $200,000 · Human ServicesACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTake Creative Control Inc: $140,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100,000 · Human Services
Other$128,764,544Public Benefit$103,726,833Civil Rights$42,996,500Community Improvement$16,011,140Education$12,660,000Environment$7,260,000Human Services$4,075,500

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetDEMOCRACYFIRST: $2,000,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetSTATES UNITED ACTION: $2,000,000 over 1y, 39% 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 budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $1,500,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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 budgetMOMSRISING TOGETHER: $1,100,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION: $1,100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCivic Nation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetRAPID RESIST ACTION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.7% 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 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

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 Our American Future Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Our American Future Action. 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
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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 217 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 2025, released 2025. 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