How much did PEOPLE'S ACTION grant in FY2024?

PEOPLE'S ACTION reported 1 grants totaling $152,030 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is PEOPLE'S ACTION based?

PEOPLE'S ACTION is based in IL.

PEOPLE'S ACTION

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

PEOPLE'S ACTION

PEOPLE'S ACTION is focused on advancing affordable health care and prescription drugs, tax fairness and fair immigration reform, as well as protecting safety net programs.

$152k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of PEOPLE'S ACTION’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

transitcitizensactivepromotingequityuniteit's

2019

groupsadvancecampaigns

2020

buffaloinnovativerural smallracial socialissue campaignsdirect lobbyingresearch

2021

blackdsm blmblm collectiveindigenousdes moinesruralorganizing leadership

2022

builds powercpaputimmigrantracial justiceworking classadvocacy civic

2023

tenant unionwest sideoverafricanempowerwscosafe

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

03FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

PEOPLE'S ACTION POWER$100,000

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.5M · 30 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%

+171%

Still filing today

87%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 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 RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

LU
LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA
6× · 2017–2022 · $492k · revenue +256%
CA
CITZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN
3× · 2020–2022 · $345k · revenue +104%
PA
PLAN ACTION FUND
5× · 2017–2023 · $270k · revenue +938% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

DH
DOWN HOME NCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $428k · revenue +582% · 54% of their budget
CI
COOPERATIVE IMPACTS LABgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $370k · revenue +171%
JS
JUST STRATEGYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +53%

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.

Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice

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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

Electoral Collective Action

Electoral Collective Action coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights

Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice

Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change govenment and corporate policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.

Environment

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

Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

The Alliance for Collective Action

To bring people together to develop and advance solutions for an inclusive, regenerative future.

Environment

Climate Justice Alliance

Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a growing member alliance of more than 85 urban and rural frontline communities, organizations, and supporting networks in the climate justice movement. CJA unites our membership to build local, community…

Environment

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

People's Action

People's action is focused on advancing affordable health care and prescription drugs, tax fairness and fair immigration reform, as well as protecting safety net programs.

Community Improvement

Community Justice Project

Cjp engages in class action litigation, administrative law, legislative advocacy, and other forms of impact litigation to help create positive change for low-income residents across pennsylvania.

Crime & Legal

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts and the most unlike its peers is Social Good Advocacy Fund. 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.

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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/68

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,497

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.

05the grantee network

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

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)

53/57

Grantees still filing

35/57

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,716,728Human Services$1,685,132Civil Rights$1,034,770Community Improvement$457,800Public Benefit$147,967Food & Nutrition$106,667Public Safety & Disaster$30,000

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.

Tides AdvocacyCA57.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Advocacy · Sixteen Thirty Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Center for Community Change Action · Proteus Action League · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Working Families Organization Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · America Votes · Women Donors Network Action · People's Action Institute

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'S ACTION 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

05Through 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: DOWN HOME NC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 831236736 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 DOWN HOME NC, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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's Action?

Find your warmest path to People's Action 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'S ACTION

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to People's Action?

More from the funding graph

PEOPLE'S ACTION

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to People's Action?

More from the funding graph