How much does People's Action give?

People's Action reported 1 itemized grants totaling $100,000, out of $152,030 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does People's Action fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (56%), Public Benefit (18%), Community Improvement (15%).

Who are People's Action's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: People's Action Power ($841k), Living United for Change in Arizona ($492k), Down Home Nc ($433k).

Does People's Action fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as People's Action?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include All Hands on Deck Network Inc, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Advocacy.

Where is People's Action based?

People's Action is based in IL.

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Illinois · Public charity

People's Action

PEOPLE'S ACTION is organized to promote economic, racial and social equity through national, regional and local advocacy campaigns.

$152k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 1
Itemized grants FY2024: 18
Organizations funded FY2023: 56%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $100k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 31; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations People's Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther

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	1	$100k	0%
FY2023	18	$355k	56%
FY2022	13	$677k	15%
FY2021	18	$502k	28%
FY2020	31	$2.7M	58%
FY2019	9	$488k	33%
FY2018	19	$657k	42%
FY2017	20	$656k	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, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$3.5MPublic Benefit$1.1MCommunity Improvement$932kHuman Services$395kHousing & Shelter$77kCrime & Legal$64kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kArts & Culture$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
People's Action Power	$840,548	5	n/a
Living United for Change in Arizona	$492,275	6	5%
Down Home Nc	$433,106	2	54%
The Cooperative Impact Lab	$370,000	1	8%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc	$344,521	3	6%
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Action	$269,775	5	35%
Progressive Maryland Inc	$267,775	4	29%
Pennsylvania Stands Up Inc	$255,000	2	6%
Michigan Peoples Campaign	$217,000	3	7%
Vocal-Ny Action Fund Inc	$194,775	3	n/a

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All grantees of People's Action by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
People's Action Power	$840,548	5	n/a
Living United for Change in Arizona	$492,275	6	5%
Down Home Nc	$433,106	2	54%
The Cooperative Impact Lab	$370,000	1	8%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc	$344,521	3	6%
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Action	$269,775	5	35%
Progressive Maryland Inc	$267,775	4	29%
Pennsylvania Stands Up Inc	$255,000	2	6%
Michigan Peoples Campaign	$217,000	3	7%
Vocal-Ny Action Fund Inc	$194,775	3	n/a
Colorado People's Action	$181,667	3	33%
The People's Lobby	$128,275	4	18%
Keystone Progress	$124,775	2	17%
Community Voices Heard Power Inc	$124,561	6	27%
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund	$106,667	4	8%
Maine People's Alliance	$96,667	5	1%
West Virginia Citizen Action Group	$94,500	2	12%
Hometown Action	$92,556	2	n/a
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action	$90,000	2	7%
Just Strategy	$90,000	1	13%
Citizen Action of New York Inc	$89,307	4	4%
ONE Peoples Campaign	$87,000	4	28%
Tides Advocacy	$79,526	3	0%
New Jersey Citizen Action	$75,367	2	7%
Philly Neighborhood Networks	$70,000	1	n/a
Takeaction Minnesota	$66,667	2	2%
Center for Empowered Politics	$65,000	1	1%
Prodigal Child Project Pcp	$63,800	1	n/a
Ruralorganizingorg	$60,000	1	7%
Action for Liberation	$54,775	1	15%
Social Good Advocacy Fund	$54,775	1	n/a
Canopy Young Adult Community House Inc	$53,333	1	19%
Rights & Democracy Project Inc	$45,000	2	9%
Ground Game LA	$42,000	2	17%
United Action for Idaho	$33,500	2	n/a
New Jersey Organizing Project Inc	$30,000	2	12%
Oneamerica Votes	$26,667	2	3%
Jane Addams Seniors in Action	$24,000	2	n/a
Progressive Maryland New Era PAC	$22,000	1	n/a
The People's Lobby PAC	$22,000	1	n/a
Faith in the Valley	$20,000	1	1%
Root Cause Research Center Inc	$20,000	1	9%
Indigenous Iowa Inc	$17,569	1	12%
DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT COLLECTIVE dba DSM BLM Collective	$17,569	1	n/a
Our City Action Buffalo Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Tennessee Citizen Action Alliance	$15,000	1	n/a
Bozeman Tenants United	$13,333	1	n/a
Southside Together Organizing For Power	$13,333	1	2%
Hoosier Action Inc	$12,500	2	1%
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Inc	$12,500	1	1%
Sunrise Movement	$11,111	1	0%
Our Revolution	$11,111	1	0%
Mijente PAC	$11,111	1	n/a
Alliance for a Just Society	$10,800	2	n/a
Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Action Fund Inc	$10,000	1	7%
African Communities Together Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Kansas People's Action Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Hometown Organizing Project	$10,000	1	2%
West Side Citizens Organization	$10,000	1	1%
Southern Vision Alliance	$10,000	1	0%
Washington Community Action Network	$8,000	1	n/a
Takeaction Mn Education Fund	$7,500	1	0%
Everyday People	$7,000	1	n/a
Progressohio org	$3,000	1	7%
All Hands on Deck Network Inc	$1,800	1	0%
Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund Inc	$1,667	1	0%

People's Action supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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 47.

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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.

All Hands on Deck Network IncMA60.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 People's Action

How much does People's Action give?: People's Action reported 1 itemized grants totaling $100,000, out of $152,030 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does People's Action fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (56%), Public Benefit (18%), Community Improvement (15%).
Who are People's Action's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: People's Action Power ($841k), Living United for Change in Arizona ($492k), Down Home Nc ($433k).
Does People's Action fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as People's Action?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include All Hands on Deck Network Inc, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Advocacy.
Where is People's Action based?: People's Action is based in IL.