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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.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$549k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$8.4MEmployment$4.2MCivil Rights$4.0MEnvironment$3.4MHuman Services$3.3MHousing & Shelter$3.1MHealth$2.4MPublic Benefit$2.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $149k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+9 grants · $2.9M
$190,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED$549,343
KOREATOWN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ALLIANCE$401,537
WORKING PARTNERSHIPS USA$327,800
EAST BAY ALLIANCE FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONO (EBASE)$300,500
UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY$297,000
CAUSE$285,000
STAND UP NASHVILLE$265,000
MISSOURI WORKERS CENTER$260,000
LAANE$255,000
WAREHOUSE WORKER RESOURCE CENTER$245,600
CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES (CPI)$235,000
NEW ECONOMY FOR WORKING HOUSTON$215,000
GRASSROOTS COLLABORATIVE$202,000
PUGET SOUND SAGE$190,000
GEORGIA STAND-UP$108,000
02The need
03

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, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIDES CENTER: $165k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $458k → 11%United for a New Economy: $191k → 7%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $338k → 10%TIDES CENTER (FISCAL SPONSOR FOR DETROIT ACTION EDUCATION FUND): $90k → 10%CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $345k → 11%United for a New Economy: $127k → 7%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $297k → 10%DETROIT ACTION EDUCATION FUNDTIDES CENTER: $145k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $262k → 11%United for a New Economy: $124k → 7%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $280k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $258k → 11%United for a New Economy: $110k → 7%Center on Policy Initiatives: $255k → 11%United for a New Economy: $90k → 7%Center on Policy Initiatives: $250k → 11%CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES (CPI): $235k → 11%CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES (CPI): $200k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX

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 — 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 36 repeat orgs$658k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
13

Total granted

$31M
$658k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-3%

Still filing today

94%
85%

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
Community ImprovementEmploymentPublic BenefitCivil RightsHealthEducationOther

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

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +19%
  • EB
    East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +57%
  • Working Partnerships USA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • Alliance for Global Justice Corp
    one grant, 2022 · $123k · revenue -51%
  • DR
    DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $97k · revenue +188%
  • MT
    Make the Road New York
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -7%

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.

1
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
2
Fair Work Center

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

Employment
3
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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4
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
5
Workers Center for Racial Just Nfp

The mission of the Workers Center For Racial Justice is to eliminate structural barriers to sustainable and living wage

Civil Rights
6
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
7
Jobs With Justice Education Fund

The organization serves as a coalition of labor organizations, community groups, faith-based organizations, and student groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people. To this end, the corporation shall engage in organizing…

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8
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
9
Center for Racial and Gender E Nfp

Workers Rights

Civil Rights
10
LaborLab

LaborLab is a nonprofit watchdog dedicated to safeguarding workers rights to organize, win strong contracts, and build lasting collective power. Through strategic research, educational resources, and corporate accountability, we empower…

Human Services
11
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
12
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Demand Progress Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Transit Riders Union. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%55%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,515

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.

04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

POWER INTERFAITH INC — $1,748,300 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTERFAITH INCORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT — $1,609,200 · Community ImprovementORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES OR…Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy — $1,561,674 · Community ImprovementCentral Coast Alliance Unite…Pittsburgh United — $1,160,000 · Community ImprovementPittsburgh UnitedKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $860,307 · Community ImprovementKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADV…STAND UP NASHVILLE — $622,000 · Community ImprovementSTAND UP NASHVILLE+3 more — $426,050 · Community Improvement+3 moreLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $2,334,285 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIA…Working Partnerships USA — $2,254,961 · HealthWorking Partnersh…Workers Assistance Program Inc — $290,000 · HealthWorkers Assistanc…+1 more — $149,000 · HealthCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES — $2,262,985 · Human ServicesCENTER ON POLIC…UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $1,556,144 · Human ServicesUNITED FOR A NE…TIDES CENTER — $580,300 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERWarehouse Worker Resource Center — $1,279,078 · EmploymentWarehouse Work…ALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC — $1,211,211 · EmploymentALIGN THE ALLI…Georgia Strategic Alliance for New — $1,142,457 · EmploymentGeorgia Strate…Missouri Workers Center — $455,000 · EmploymentMissouri Worke…+2 more — $80,000 · EmploymentEast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy — $2,268,274 · Public BenefitEast Bay …THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE — $170,000 · Public BenefitTHE PEOPL…Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund — $150,000 · Public BenefitAmericans…+2 more — $115,000 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC — $2,165,369 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY…TOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO — $170,000 · Civil RightsTOWARDS J…Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $160,000 · Civil RightsAction Ce…DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC — $96,500 · Civil Rights+1 more — $42,000 · Civil RightsGrassroots Collaborative — $1,221,633 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $180,000 · EducationUnited for Respect Education Fund — $142,000 · Education+1 more — $50,000 · EducationPUGET SOUND SAGE — $1,524,911 · OtherPUGET SOUND …STAND UP NASHVILLE — $550,000 · OtherSTAND UP NAS…CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC — $353,500 · OtherCITIZEN ACTI…AMERICAN FED OF LABOR & CONGRESS — $200,000 · OtherAMERICAN FED…Worksafe Inc — $131,500 · OtherNEW ECONOMY FOR WORKING HOUSTON — $245,000 · OtherNEW ECONOMY …Alliance for Global Justice Corp — $123,000 · Other+8 more — $389,329 · Other+8 more
Community Improvement$7,987,531Health$5,028,246Human Services$4,399,429Employment$4,167,746Public Benefit$2,703,274Civil Rights$2,633,869Education$1,593,633Other$3,517,240

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $2,334,285 over 8y, 12% of budgetEast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy — $2,268,274 over 8y, 21% of budgetCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES — $2,262,985 over 8y, 22% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA — $2,254,961 over 8y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC — $2,165,369 over 8y, 38% of budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC — $1,748,300 over 8y, 13% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT — $1,609,200 over 7y, 37% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy — $1,561,674 over 8y, 11% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $1,556,144 over 8y, 31% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE — $1,524,911 over 8y, 23% of budgetWarehouse Worker Resource Center — $1,279,078 over 6y, 16% of budgetGrassroots Collaborative — $1,221,633 over 6y, 53% of budgetALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC — $1,211,211 over 8y, 17% of budgetPittsburgh United — $1,160,000 over 7y, 57% of budgetGeorgia Strategic Alliance for New — $1,142,457 over 8y, 27% of budgetKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $860,307 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetSTAND UP NASHVILLE — $622,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $580,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMissouri Workers Center — $455,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC — $353,500 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetWorkers Assistance Program Inc — $290,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNEW ECONOMY FOR WORKING HOUSTON — $245,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetAMERICAN FED OF LABOR & CONGRESS — $200,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE — $170,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetTOWARDS JUSTICE OF COLORADO — $170,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetWORKER POWER INSTITUTE — $163,800 over 5y, 10% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $160,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAmericans for Financial Reform Education Fund — $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $149,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund — $142,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc — $135,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetWorksafe Inc — $131,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $127,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $123,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC — $96,500 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSTEP FORWARD FOUNDATION — $82,900 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMake the Road New York — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC — $65,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT — $48,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEMAND PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND — $42,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $40,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTRANSIT RIDERS UNION — $40,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $20,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAction Center on Race and the Economy — $13,000 over 1y, 14% of budget
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 FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationNew Venture FundMarguerite Casey Foun…United States Energy …Solidago FoundationTides CenterProteus Fund IncSolutions Project IncNEO Philanthropy IncWorking Partnerships …
Windward FundDC46.8× affinity21 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 · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Marguerite Casey Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Solidago Foundation · Tides Center · Proteus Fund Inc · Solutions Project Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Working Partnerships USA

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 organization Powerswitch Action 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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