How much does Powerswitch Action give?

Powerswitch Action reported 26 grants totaling $4,243,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Powerswitch Action fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (26%), Employment (13%), Civil Rights (12%).

Who are Powerswitch Action's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy ($2.6M), Working Partnerships USA ($2.6M), Center on Policy Initiatives ($2.5M).

Does Powerswitch Action fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Powerswitch Action?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windward Fund, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.

Where is Powerswitch Action based?

Powerswitch Action is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Powerswitch Action

POWERSWITCH ACTION is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2025: 27
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $125,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $404,250
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 33; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 14
Total assets, FY2025: $26M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Powerswitch Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEmploymentPublic BenefitCivil RightsEducationEnvironmentOther

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	25	$4.1M	4%
FY2024	27	$4.8M	0%
FY2023	30	$5.0M	17%
FY2022	32	$5.6M	22%
FY2021	33	$5.3M	45%
FY2020	18	$3.4M	6%
FY2019	18	$2.7M	28%
FY2018	13	$2.1M	0%

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What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$8.4MEmployment$4.2MCivil Rights$4.0MEnvironment$3.4MHuman Services$3.3MHousing & Shelter$3.1MHealth$2.4MPublic Benefit$2.1MOther$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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$2,592,618	9	12%
Working Partnerships USA	$2,580,794	9	10%
Center on Policy Initiatives	$2,549,944	9	22%
East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy	$2,523,274	9	21%
Community Labor United Inc	$2,340,369	9	38%
Power Interfaith Inc	$1,873,300	9	13%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy	$1,801,674	9	11%
Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development	$1,716,700	8	37%
United for a New Economy	$1,706,144	9	31%
Warehouse Worker Resource Center	$1,683,328	7	16%

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All grantees of Powerswitch Action by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$2,592,618	9	12%
Working Partnerships USA	$2,580,794	9	10%
Center on Policy Initiatives	$2,549,944	9	22%
East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy	$2,523,274	9	21%
Community Labor United Inc	$2,340,369	9	38%
Power Interfaith Inc	$1,873,300	9	13%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy	$1,801,674	9	11%
Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development	$1,716,700	8	37%
United for a New Economy	$1,706,144	9	31%
Warehouse Worker Resource Center	$1,683,328	7	16%
Puget Sound Sage	$1,649,911	9	23%
Grassroots Collaborative	$1,491,633	7	53%
Align the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc	$1,311,211	9	17%
Pittsburgh United	$1,260,000	8	57%
Georgia Strategic Alliance for New	$1,252,457	9	27%
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California	$1,160,307	4	8%
Missouri Workers Center	$727,000	4	15%
Stand Up Nashville	$700,000	3	n/a
Stand Up Nashville	$622,000	4	32%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc	$443,500	6	9%
New Economy for Working Houston	$345,000	3	23%
Workers Assistance Program Inc	$290,000	3	2%
Worker Power Institute	$238,800	6	10%
The People's Lobby Education Institute	$228,000	3	10%
Towards Justice of Colorado	$200,000	3	12%
American Fed of Labor & Congress	$200,000	2	77%
Georgetown University	$180,000	2	0%
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute	$160,000	2	2%
Community Partners	$153,000	5	0%
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund	$150,000	3	1%
Chinese Progressive Association	$149,000	3	0%
United for Respect Education Fund	$142,000	3	1%
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc	$135,000	2	5%
Worksafe Inc	$131,500	4	3%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$123,000	1	1%
Regents Univ of California	$105,196	2	n/a
Defending Rights and Dissent Inc	$96,500	1	9%
Step Forward Foundation	$82,900	2	2%
Make the Road New York	$75,000	1	0%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund Inc	$65,000	1	4%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$50,000	1	0%
National Employment Law Project	$48,750	1	0%
Demand Progress Education Fund	$42,000	1	2%
Transit Riders Union	$40,000	1	20%
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice	$40,000	1	24%
Clean Water Fund	$20,700	1	0%
Action Center on Race and the Economy	$13,000	1	14%
Frontline Solutions International Corp	$13,000	1	n/a
Families for Strong Public Schools Inc	$10,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.

Powerswitch Action supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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 45.

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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.

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

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 Powerswitch Action

How much does Powerswitch Action give?: Powerswitch Action reported 26 grants totaling $4,243,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Powerswitch Action fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (26%), Employment (13%), Civil Rights (12%).
Who are Powerswitch Action's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy ($2.6M), Working Partnerships USA ($2.6M), Center on Policy Initiatives ($2.5M).
Does Powerswitch Action fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Powerswitch Action?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windward Fund, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.
Where is Powerswitch Action based?: Powerswitch Action is based in CA.