Illinois · 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(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $115,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $853,518
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 50
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 32
- Total assets, FY2024
- $25M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations People's Action Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $559k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 64 | $8.2M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $3.8M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $4.9M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $5.9M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $3.2M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $1.9M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $1.1M | 59% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund Inc | $1,746,741 | 8 | 34% |
| Maine People's Resource Center | $1,171,518 | 7 | 9% |
| Michigan Organizing Project | $1,150,805 | 8 | 13% |
| Hometown Organizing Project | $1,085,056 | 5 | 70% |
| Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement | $1,008,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Rights & Democracy Education Fund Inc | $944,950 | 7 | 31% |
| Progressive Maryland Education Fund Inc | $905,963 | 7 | 52% |
| We Are Down Home | $894,750 | 5 | 11% |
| Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside | $849,833 | 8 | 18% |
| Hoosier Action Resource Center Inc | $805,373 | 4 | 29% |
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Where it is load-bearing
People's Action Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 18 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 114 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Patagoniaorg · United States Energy Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Center for Community Change · Working Families Organization Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation
How this is measured
About People's Action Institute
- How much does People's Action Institute give?
- People's Action Institute reported 65 grants totaling $8,491,232 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does People's Action Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (21%), Public Benefit (20%), Community Improvement (18%).
- Who are People's Action Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund Inc ($1.7M), Maine People's Resource Center ($1.2M), Michigan Organizing Project ($1.2M).
- Does People's Action Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as People's Action Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windward Fund, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund.
- Where is People's Action Institute based?
- People's Action Institute is based in IL.
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