· 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
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $253k
- $50k–250k44 grants · $5.7M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $180,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE | $180,000 |
| CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC | $180,000 |
| FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK | $180,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
68 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +232% · 34% of their budget
- MPMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +219%
- MOMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +455%
Funded once
- THTHE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $271k · revenue -54%
- ADARCHCITY DEFENDERSone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +23%
- LALOWCOUNTRY ALLIANCE FOR MODEL COMMUNITIEone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -51%
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.
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.
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…
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.
Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
The Partnership Project Action Fund helps the environmental community work more collaboratively to advocate for the protection of the natural environment.
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…
Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…
Clean water action is a national citizens organization working for clean, safe, and affrodable water, prevention of health threatening pollution, creation of environmentally safe jobs and busnesses and empowerment of people to make…
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.
The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…
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.
How this is measured
130 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. 130 of the 146 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOMETOWN ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ↗
- Who funds RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE DOWN HOME ↗
- Who funds Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER ACTION RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Pennsylvania United ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC ↗
- Who funds Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds People Organized For Westside Renewal POWER ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Jane Addams Senior Caucus ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY RESOURCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT CAUSE RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PEOPLES ACTION ↗
- Who funds UNITED VISION FOR IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KC TENANTS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR ACTION ↗
- Who funds Latino Community Fund of Washington State ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization People's Action Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from People's Action Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for Intercultural Organizing: 28% of income from government
- Beyond Toxics: 13% of income from government
- New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc: 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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