How much does Pa Alliance Action give?

Pa Alliance Action reported 19 grants totaling $10,621,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Pa Alliance Action fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (88%), Civil Rights (6%), Environment (3%).

Who are Pa Alliance Action's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Commonwealth Communications ($7.0M), Project 26 Pennsylvania ($4.7M), The Voter Project ($3.8M).

Does Pa Alliance Action fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Pa Alliance Action?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Commonwealth Communications.

Where is Pa Alliance Action based?

Pa Alliance Action is based in PA.

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Pennsylvania · Public charity

Pa Alliance Action

The PA Alliance Action seeks to advocate at the state level for democracy reform through grassroots activities and support of like-minded organizations on behalf of and in support of all Pennsylvanians, in particular historically marginalized and underserved communities, including communities of color, impoverished communities and the…

$11M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 19
Grants FY2024: 9
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $275,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $4,726,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 22; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $635k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Pa Alliance Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	19	$11M	32%
FY2023	9	$1.5M	0%
FY2022	22	$9.8M	27%
FY2021	11	$2.0M	27%
FY2020	15	$5.2M	87%
FY2019	2	$345k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$26MCivil Rights$1.7MEnvironment$810kCommunity Improvement$412kHealth$280kHuman Services$200kFood & Nutrition$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Commonwealth Communications	$6,966,000	5	90%
Project 26 Pennsylvania	$4,726,000	1	66%
The Voter Project	$3,790,000	5	24%
Project Keystone	$2,430,550	6	50%
Pennsylvania United	$1,593,625	5	19%
For Our Future Action Fund	$1,499,000	4	5%
America Works	$1,250,000	1	n/a
Lead PA	$1,026,500	5	95%
Make the Road Action Inc	$802,825	5	5%
Asian Pacific Islander Political Al Liance	$687,000	4	n/a

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All grantees of Pa Alliance Action by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Commonwealth Communications	$6,966,000	5	90%
Project 26 Pennsylvania	$4,726,000	1	66%
The Voter Project	$3,790,000	5	24%
Project Keystone	$2,430,550	6	50%
Pennsylvania United	$1,593,625	5	19%
For Our Future Action Fund	$1,499,000	4	5%
America Works	$1,250,000	1	n/a
Lead PA	$1,026,500	5	95%
Make the Road Action Inc	$802,825	5	5%
Asian Pacific Islander Political Al Liance	$687,000	4	n/a
New Pennsylvania Project	$678,250	4	16%
Action Together Nepa	$577,000	3	42%
Working Families Organization Inc	$538,781	1	1%
Organize Pennsylvania	$415,000	4	3%
Casa in Action Inc	$368,219	3	8%
Goodpower Inc	$355,000	1	57%
Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania	$335,000	3	9%
Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates	$280,000	3	13%
Pennsylvania Spotlight	$225,000	2	55%
PA Alliance Foundation	$144,000	1	2%
1K Women Strong Inc	$125,000	2	7%
Conservation Voters of Pa Victory Fund	$120,000	1	n/a
Unidosus Action Fund Inc	$120,000	1	20%
Promote the Vote Pa	$110,000	1	12%
Free Fair PA	$100,000	1	34%
America Votes	$75,000	1	0%
Keystone Progress	$50,000	1	31%
Black Men Vote	$50,000	1	1%
In Union USA Action	$50,000	1	n/a
Food & Water Action Fund	$45,000	2	2%

Pa Alliance Action supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 FundDC43.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Commonwealth Communications · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Foundation · PA Alliance Foundation · Our American Future Action · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · North Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc

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.

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About Pa Alliance Action

How much does Pa Alliance Action give?: Pa Alliance Action reported 19 grants totaling $10,621,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Pa Alliance Action fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (88%), Civil Rights (6%), Environment (3%).
Who are Pa Alliance Action's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Commonwealth Communications ($7.0M), Project 26 Pennsylvania ($4.7M), The Voter Project ($3.8M).
Does Pa Alliance Action fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pa Alliance Action?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Commonwealth Communications.
Where is Pa Alliance Action based?: Pa Alliance Action is based in PA.