How much did PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE grant in FY2024?

PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE reported 65 grants totaling $8,491,232 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE based?

PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE is based in IL.

PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE

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· Public charity

PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE

The mission of PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE is to advance a long-term agenda for racial, economic and gender justice by investing in powerful state and local organizations and campaigns that win real change in people's lives.

$8.5M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$854k

Largest

01What you fund

0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$5.6MPublic Benefit$4.6MCivil Rights$4.1MEducation$3.6MHuman Services$2.3MPhilanthropy$2.0MEmployment$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.3MEnvironment$1.2MOther$6.3M

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

preserveheadwatersrivertransitrepresentativeworkedprotect

2019

progressive policiesprogresstransitforest protectionenvironmental educationgoalrider

2020

reduction nhrcnhrc educationeducation preventionprevention interventionintervention reducereduce drugdrug harm

2021

right cleansoutheastimpactexposurelegaleveryonetenant union

2022

environmental healthtenant unionpanelbringunionsoverlouisville

2023

renewable energysavannahstopexpansiontenant unionsouthcultivate

2024

fiawest sidewscopotentialbenefitschesterfinancial

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

03FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $53k
$10k–50k9 grants · $253k
$50k–250k44 grants · $5.7M
$250k+5 grants · $2.4M

$115,000

Median grant

States reached

$25M

Total assets

Largest grants

CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND$853,518
PENNSYLVANIA UNITED$700,000
HOOSIER ACTION RESOURCE CENTER$275,123
ORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOODS FOR EQUALITY NORTHSIDE$271,500
IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT$270,000
VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS INC (VOCAL-NY)$230,000
WE ARE DOWN HOME NC$228,750
MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER$228,518
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$210,000
COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD$191,500
TAKEACTION MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND$181,673
FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK$180,000
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC$180,000
STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT$180,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE$180,000

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 (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$29M · 71 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$29M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%

+68%

Still filing today

93%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

CA
CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +232% · 34% of their budget
MP
MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +219%
MO
MICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT DBA MICHIGAN UNITED
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +455%

Funded once

HF
HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $271k · revenue -21%
AD
ARCHCITY DEFENDERS (FS ACTION ST LOUIS)graduated
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +279%
LA
LOWCOUNTRY ALLIANCE FOR MODEL COMMUNITIES (FS SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSING JUSTI
one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -51%

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.

California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment

Environmental Justice Community Action Network

NC has clean & safe air, water & soil.

Environment

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

Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice

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United for a Fair Economy Inc

United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power by using popular economics education, trainings and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy.

Social Science

The Alliance for Collective Action

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

Environment

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

Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment

Portland Jobs With Justice Education

We are a coalition that connects community and labor.

Employment

Clean Water Action

Public policy research and lobbying: legislative contact and educational outreach, engaging individuals, organizations and public officials in the efforts to understand and improve policies and their implementation related to water,…

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Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize communit

Environment

Oregon Rural Action Inc

We are working to promote social justice, agricultural and economic sustainability, and stewardship of the region's land, air, and water.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders and the most unlike its peers is Green Valley Film & Art Center. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

6/147

the rest of the field

11%

206,158/1,819,418

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

128 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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)

124/128

Grantees still filing

97/128

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Improvement$5,569,781Public Benefit$4,607,618Civil Rights$4,103,373Other$10,084,576Education$3,553,920Human Services$2,340,133Philanthropy$1,963,005

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.

Windward FundDC98.7× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Center for Community Change · Patagoniaorg · Marguerite Casey Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Working Families Organization Inc

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 INSTITUTE 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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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: UNITED VISION FOR IDAHO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 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 6.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 820481853 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 UNITED VISION FOR IDAHO, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 83% 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 Institute?

Find your warmest path to People's Action Institute 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 INSTITUTE

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

128 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to People's Action Institute?

More from the funding graph

PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE

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

128 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to People's Action Institute?

More from the funding graph