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People's Action

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

$152k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $100,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $152,030 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,030 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEOPLE'S ACTION POWER$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $125k → 11%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND: $10k → 16%OUR CITY ACTION BUFFALO: $15k → 13%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $63k → 14%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $10k → 17%DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA: $5k → 13%DOWN HOME NC: $428k → 16%PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $95k → 8%PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND: $40k → 11%CANOPY COMMUNITY HOUSE: $53k → 8%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $110k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER: $43k → 17%VOCAL-NY ACTION FUND INC: $70k → 20%PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $78k → 8%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $110k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER: $25k → 17%VOCAL-NY ACTION FUND INC: $70k → 20%PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $55k → 8%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $85k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $2k → 14%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER: $25k → 17%VOCAL-NY ACTION FUND INC: $55k → 20%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $55k → 11%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER: $20k → 17%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $8k → 11%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 31 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
35

Total granted

$5.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+1%

Still filing today

90%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitFood & NutritionArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LU
    LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $492k · revenue +256%
  • DH
    DOWN HOME NC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $433k · revenue +582% · 54% of their budget
  • PL
    PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA ACTION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $270k · revenue +938% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COOPERATIVE IMPACT LAB
    one grant, 2020 · $370k · revenue -84%
  • JS
    Just Strategygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +53%
  • PN
    PHILLY NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORKSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +180%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
2
Pennsylvania United

PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create

Civil Rights
3
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
4
Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice.

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5
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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6
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
7
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
8
America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement
9
Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Action

Advocating for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of average missouri citizens, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy, and conducting research, educating the public, and…

Civil Rights
10
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
11
Greater Spokane Action

Greater Spokane Action (GSA) is the political arm of Greater Spokane Progress (GSP), reshaping politics by educating, advocating and mobilizing to establish and strengthen equitable and progressive policies in our community.

Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizen Action of New York Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/59
Grantees still filing
29/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEOPLE'S ACTION POWER: $840,548 · OtherPEOPLE'S ACTION POWERTHE COOPERATIVE IMPACT LAB: $370,000 · OtherTHE COOPERATIVE IMPACT LABCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $344,521 · OtherCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INCCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ACTION: $181,667 · OtherCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ACTIONTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY: $128,275 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION GROUP: $94,500 · OtherHOMETOWN ACTION: $92,556 · Other+22 more: $577,161 · Other+22 moreLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $492,275 · Human ServicesLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN AR…DOWN HOME NC: $433,106 · Human ServicesDOWN HOME NCPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $267,775 · Human ServicesPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INCVOCAL-NY ACTION FUND INC: $194,775 · Human ServicesVOCAL-NY ACTION FUND INCCommunity Voices Heard Power Inc: $124,561 · Human ServicesCommunity Voices Heard Power I…CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $89,307 · Human Services+4 more: $88,333 · Human ServicesPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA ACTION: $269,775 · Civil RightsPROGRESSIVE LEADERSH…Michigan Peoples Campaign: $217,000 · Civil RightsMichigan Peoples Cam…KEYSTONE PROGRESS: $124,775 · Civil RightsKEYSTONE PROGRESSMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTION: $90,000 · Civil RightsMISSOURI JOBS WITH J…Just Strategy: $90,000 · Civil RightsJust StrategyPHILLY NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORKS: $70,000 · Civil RightsPHILLY NEIGHBORHOOD …CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $65,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED…RURALORGANIZINGORG: $60,000 · Civil RightsRURALORGANIZINGORGACTION FOR LIBERATION: $54,775 · Civil Rights+4 more: $63,445 · Civil Rights+4 morePENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC: $255,000 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $96,667 · Community ImprovementGround Game LA: $42,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN THE VALLEY: $20,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $56,633 · Community ImprovementTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $66,667 · Public BenefitPRODIGAL CHILD PROJECT PCP: $63,800 · Public BenefitSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $7,500 · Public BenefitIOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ACTION FUND: $106,667 · Food & NutritionNEW JERSEY ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,629,228Human Services$1,690,132Civil Rights$1,104,770Community Improvement$470,300Public Benefit$147,967Food & Nutrition$106,667Public Safety & Disaster$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $492,275 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetDOWN HOME NC: $433,106 over 2y, 54% of budgetTHE COOPERATIVE IMPACT LAB: $370,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $344,521 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA ACTION: $269,775 over 5y, 35% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $267,775 over 4y, 29% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC: $255,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetMichigan Peoples Campaign: $217,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ACTION: $181,667 over 3y, 33% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY: $128,275 over 4y, 18% of budgetKEYSTONE PROGRESS: $124,775 over 2y, 17% of budgetCommunity Voices Heard Power Inc: $124,561 over 6y, 27% of budgetIOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ACTION FUND: $106,667 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $96,667 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION GROUP: $94,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTION: $90,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetJust Strategy: $90,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $89,307 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetONE Peoples Campaign: $87,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $79,526 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION: $75,367 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $66,667 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $65,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRURALORGANIZINGORG: $60,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetACTION FOR LIBERATION: $54,775 over 1y, 15% of budgetCanopy Young Adult Community House Inc: $53,333 over 1y, 19% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetGround Game LA: $42,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetNEW JERSEY ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetONEAMERICA VOTES: $26,667 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFAITH IN THE VALLEY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROOT CAUSE RESEARCH CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetINDIGENOUS IOWA INC: $17,569 over 1y, 12% of budgetSouthside Together Organizing For Power: $13,333 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHOOSIER ACTION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT: $11,111 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOur Revolution: $11,111 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOMETOWN ORGANIZING PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProgressohio org: $3,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetALL HANDS ON DECK NETWORK INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,667 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Net…Sixteen Thirty FundTides AdvocacyCenter for Community …Proteus Action LeagueWorking Families Orga…Way to Win Action Fun…Tides FoundationOpen Society Action F…America VotesClimate Equity Action…Women Donors Network …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization People's Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from People's Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • New Jersey Citizen Action: 37% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home