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Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition

The mission of the organization is to educate the general public regarding issues of public policy and to promote and bring about advances in such areas of public policy. The organization promotes public policy change through education, advocacy, grantmaking and other permissible activities in furtherance of its exempt purpose. The…

$850k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$250,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$194k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23
Civil RightsHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$850k33%
FY20234$700k100%
FY20212$750k100%
FY20192$433kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Benefit$2.0MHousing & Shelter$500kCivil Rights$200k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Unite America Inc$800,00023%
California YIMBY$500,000114%
Smp$450,0002n/a
Govern for California$250,000118%
Black Church Action Fund$233,0001n/a
Ff PAC$200,0001n/a
Republican Accountability PAC Inc$100,0001n/a
Hmp$100,0001n/a
Future Forward USA Action$100,00010%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition?

Find your warmest path to Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition 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.

About Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition

How much does Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition give?
Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition reported 3 grants totaling $850,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (74%), Housing & Shelter (18%), Civil Rights (7%).
Who are Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Unite America Inc ($800k), California YIMBY ($500k), Smp ($450k).
Does Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Where is Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition based?
Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition is based in IL.

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 9 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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