How much does Ploughshares Fund Inc give?

Ploughshares Fund Inc reported 37 itemized grants totaling $2,816,000, out of $3,119,923 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 50 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Ploughshares Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (42%), Public Benefit (18%), Education (9%).

Who are Ploughshares Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Global Zero Action ($1.1M), The Arms Control Associations ($909k), Foreign Policy For America ($840k).

Does Ploughshares Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ploughshares Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prospect Hill Foundation Inc, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc, Jubitz Family Foundation.

Where is Ploughshares Fund Inc based?

Ploughshares Fund Inc is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Ploughshares Fund Inc

Our mission is to reduce and eventually eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons. We do critical work to drive collaborative action within the nuclear field and provide funding to experts and organizations focused on mitigating the threat.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 37
Itemized grants FY2025: 39
Organizations funded FY2024: 54%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $70,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $205,000
Organizations funded a year: 39 to 50; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 11
Total assets, FY2025: $24M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Ploughshares Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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
FY2025still arriving	37	$2.8M	22%
FY2024	39	$3.8M	54%
FY2023	46	$4.2M	20%
FY2022	50	$4.0M	32%
FY2021	48	$3.6M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$7.8MPublic Benefit$3.4MEducation$1.7MCivil Rights$1.5MScience & Tech$1.4MHuman Services$540kHealth$395kArts & Culture$377kOther$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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Global Zero Action	$1,086,500	3	91%
The Arms Control Associations	$908,500	5	14%
Foreign Policy For America	$840,000	5	21%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc	$720,000	5	1%
Inkstick Media Inc	$560,000	5	22%
ReThink Media	$482,500	5	6%
Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc	$455,950	4	1%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College	$455,000	2	0%
Vet Voice Foundation Inc	$390,000	4	5%
J Street	$390,000	5	3%

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All grantees of Ploughshares Fund Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Global Zero Action	$1,086,500	3	91%
The Arms Control Associations	$908,500	5	14%
Foreign Policy For America	$840,000	5	21%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc	$720,000	5	1%
Inkstick Media Inc	$560,000	5	22%
ReThink Media	$482,500	5	6%
Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc	$455,950	4	1%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College	$455,000	2	0%
Vet Voice Foundation Inc	$390,000	4	5%
J Street	$390,000	5	3%
MoveOnorg Civic Action	$380,000	4	2%
International Crisis Group	$370,000	5	0%
The Henry L Stimson Center	$365,000	5	1%
NIAC Action	$360,000	5	35%
International Civil Society Action Network Inc	$340,000	2	3%
Win Without War Education Fund	$257,500	2	10%
Council for a Livable World	$255,000	3	22%
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace	$230,000	2	0%
Federation of American Scientists	$225,000	2	0%
Nuclear Truth Project Inc	$215,000	3	23%
Secure Families Foundation	$215,000	3	39%
The Foundation for a Civil Society LTD	$180,000	3	16%
Marshallese Educational Initiative	$175,000	2	12%
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists	$165,000	2	4%
Physicians for Social Responsibility	$164,000	3	4%
WOMEN CROSS DMZ Attn CATHI CHOI	$150,500	2	14%
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility	$150,000	2	23%
Mercy Corps	$150,000	2	0%
Global Zero	$150,000	1	n/a
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft	$145,000	2	1%
Southwest Research & Information Center	$143,000	2	4%
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment	$140,000	2	34%
Fcnl Education Fund	$125,000	5	1%
Friends Committee on National Legislation	$110,000	1	2%
Herbert Scoville Jr Peace	$110,000	2	10%
Veterans For Peace Inc	$100,000	1	18%
Horizon 2045 Foundation	$100,000	1	6%
Center for International Policy Inc	$100,000	2	2%
Board of Trustees of Whitman College	$93,000	2	0%
Fulcrum Arts	$85,500	1	4%
J Street Education Fund Inc	$85,000	2	1%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$80,000	1	0%
New America Foundation	$80,000	2	0%
Pacific Forum International	$80,000	1	3%
The Rand Corporation	$80,000	1	n/a
Kairos Center Inc	$75,000	1	n/a
The Open Mind Legacy Project Inc	$75,000	1	14%
Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security Wcaps	$55,000	1	8%
As You Sow	$55,000	2	1%
Games for Change Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Center for American Progress	$50,000	1	0%
Cato Institute	$50,000	1	0%
Center for Strategic and International Studies	$40,000	2	0%
The 1947 Partition Archive	$40,000	1	22%
National Iranian American Council	$30,000	2	n/a
Fund for Constitutional Government	$25,000	1	1%
Working Families Organization Inc	$25,000	1	0%
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology	$24,000	1	0%
Downwind Film LLC	$20,000	1	n/a
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation	$15,000	1	5%
Back From the Brink	$15,000	1	n/a
Action For A Progressive Future	$10,000	1	n/a
The Council on Strategic Risks	$10,000	1	0%
Women Make Movies Inc	$8,000	1	0%

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.

Ploughshares Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 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 57.

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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.

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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 Ploughshares Fund Inc

How much does Ploughshares Fund Inc give?: Ploughshares Fund Inc reported 37 itemized grants totaling $2,816,000, out of $3,119,923 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 50 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Ploughshares Fund Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (42%), Public Benefit (18%), Education (9%).
Who are Ploughshares Fund Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Global Zero Action ($1.1M), The Arms Control Associations ($909k), Foreign Policy For America ($840k).
Does Ploughshares Fund Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ploughshares Fund Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prospect Hill Foundation Inc, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc, Jubitz Family Foundation.
Where is Ploughshares Fund Inc based?: Ploughshares Fund Inc is based in CA.