How much did PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY grant in FY2022?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

justiceafjac

2019

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2022

federal democracydemocracy reform

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$50k–250k1 grant · $87k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

TERRY FOR VA$87,225
MARCH ON$20,000
DRUM MAJORS FOR CHANGE INC$20,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS$20,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$9,500
OUR REVOLUTION$6,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 34% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights

The Justice Workshop

(1) Community Outreach to educate on the interconnectivity of systems, and impact structural and systemic change in the areas of criminal, electoral, and economic justice in the United States; and (2) Policy Reform and Direct Lobbying…

Civil Rights

Womens March Inc

Harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change

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March to the Polls

March to the Polls has a mission of increasing electoral participation in underrepresented communities, particularly youth and people of color. Our programming is nonpartisan and engages high school students and their communities in…

Public Benefit

Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal

Just Strategy

Just Strategy leads the National Campaign for Transit Justice. In 2023 we have advanced two major victories. We got the Administration to release the Greenhouse Gas rule, establishing goal setting and reporting on state goals to reduce…

Civil Rights

Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights

North Carolina Black Alliance Inc

The North Carolina Black Alliance (NCBA) works toward state-level systemic change by strengthening the network of elected officials representing communities of color throughout the state and collaborating with progressive, grassroots…

Education

New Virginia Majority

New Virginia Majority is a grassroots organization that empowers low income people and people of color in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education and advocacy, and voter education and…

Civil Rights

The Black Collective Inc

Centering the experiences of the African diaspora, the Black Collective is a movement committed to promoting a shared agenda to elevate political consciousness and amplify the economic power of Black communities.

Community Improvement

Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement

Civica Initiatives

Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Leadership Conference On and the most unlike its peers is BlackPush Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/12

Grantees still filing

9/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$168,225Civil Rights$11,000Environment$9,500Education$5,000

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

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 FundDC19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · End Citizens United Let America Vote · Communications Workers of America · National Education Association of The

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 organisation PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY 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

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DRUM MAJORS FOR CHANGE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 4.4× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 872509435 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DRUM MAJORS FOR CHANGE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to People for the American Way?

Find your warmest path to People for the American Way through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to People for the American Way?

More from the funding graph

PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to People for the American Way?

More from the funding graph