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Our Children Our Future

Support various non-partisan groups involved in voter registration, voter organization, voter education and voter mobilization across the country.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$280k
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 FY2020–2025.

Public Benefit$4.1MCivil Rights$150kHealth$100kEmployment$30k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $750k
  • $250k+3 grants · $780k
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$145k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Focus for Democracy$280,000
Strategic Victory Fund$250,000
America Votes$250,000
Pennsylvania Alliance Action Fund$150,000
Care in Action$150,000
Civitech - New Voter Initiative$100,000
Planned Parenthood Action Fund$100,000
Florida Democratic Party$50,000
Democratic Association of Secretaries of State Legal Fund$50,000
American Family Voices$50,000
Sixteen Thirty Fund$50,000
Progress Iowa$50,000
Work Money Inc$40,000
AAPI Victory Power Fund$25,000
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 (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LUCHA Victory PAC - Federal: $25k → 11%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

NH
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 15 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
26

Total granted

$2.6M
$941k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

87%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $720k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsPublic BenefitEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • AV
    America Votes
    5× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +495%
  • PN
    PROGRESS NOW INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +465%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • MC
    MoveOnorg Civic Action
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • BV
    Black Voters Matter Fund Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • DA
    DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k

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.

1
Right Vote Inc
Civil Rights
2
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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3
Democracy Works Inc

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

Civil Rights
4
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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5
Majority Forward

The organization's mission is to advocate for progressive policies and engaging in nonpartisan voter registration.

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6
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
7
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
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
9
American Workers for Progress

American workers for progress works to ensure that leaders at every level are focused on reducing barriers to job growth and addressing economic challenges to guarantee a better future for all americans.

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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
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
12
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement Strategy Center Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Yes for Pcc. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and Advocacy
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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%26%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%12%<5yr14%26%5–10yr19%41%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 49 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
20/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STATE VICTORY ACTION — $750,000 · OtherSTATE VICTORY ACTIONFairness Project — $190,000 · OtherFairness ProjectBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc — $100,000 · OtherCivitech — $100,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY ALLIANCE — $100,000 · OtherWORKING AMERICA — $80,000 · OtherAAPI VICTORY POWER FUND — $75,000 · OtherPUSD Families Supporting Public Schools -- YES on Measures R and EE — $75,000 · Other+20 more — $666,000 · Other+20 moreFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND — $280,000 · Civil RightsFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUNDCare in Action Inc — $270,000 · Civil RightsCare in Action IncPA ALLIANCE ACTION — $150,000 · Civil RightsPA ALLIANCE ACTIONPROGRESS NOW INC — $150,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESS NOW INCA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC — $110,000 · Civil RightsA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER …CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION — $50,000 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAY — $45,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $65,000 · Civil Rights+3 moreAmerica Votes — $525,000 · Community ImprovementAmerica VotesMoveOnorg Civic Action — $100,000 · EducationFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC — $55,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $150,000 · HealthSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $145,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION — $50,000 · Public BenefitSTATE ENGAGEMENT FUND — $25,000 · Public BenefitFUTURE NOW ACTION — $25,000 · Public BenefitProgress Michigan Inc — $15,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc — $10,000 · Public BenefitLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $25,000 · Human Services
Other$2,136,000Civil Rights$1,120,000Community Improvement$525,000Education$155,000Health$150,000Environment$145,000Public Benefit$125,000Human Services$25,000

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 budgetAmerica Votes — $525,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCare in Action Inc — $270,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPROGRESS NOW INC — $150,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $145,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMoveOnorg Civic Action — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWORKING AMERICA — $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAAPI VICTORY POWER FUND — $75,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNEVADANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM — $70,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIn Union USA Action — $70,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHIRD WAY — $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRural Urban Bridge Initiative — $30,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTATE ENGAGEMENT FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUTURE NOW ACTION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWe The People Action Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget603 FORWARD — $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetProgress Michigan Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYes for PCC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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 VotesTides AdvocacyNorth FundAmerican Federation o…Tides FoundationAll Hands on Deck Net…Our American Future A…Way to Win Action Fun…National Education As…State Engagement Fund
Sixteen Thirty FundDC59.5× affinity28 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 · Tides Advocacy · North Fund · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Tides Foundation · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Our American Future Action · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · National Education Association of the United States · State Engagement 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 organization Our Children Our Future 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 · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Children Our Future?

    Find your warmest path to Our Children Our Future 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 49 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.

    Source object · view filing

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