Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Priorities USA
PRIORITIES USA exists to activate & empower americans. Through digital communications investments & state-of-the-art research, we fight to mobilize every american possible on the issues that matter to them while ensuring the democratic process is accessible to every citizen.
- $345k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $335k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $190,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 80% of the organizations Priorities USA funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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 | 9 | $315k | 89% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $205k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $3.2M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $25M | 72% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $5.3M | 67% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $2.1M | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $935k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priorities USA Action | $25,161,570 | 4 | n/a |
| America Votes | $2,690,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Fair Fight Action Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 9% |
| The Good Land Committee Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Unite Here Action Fund | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Highway 31 | $910,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith Forward | $225,000 | 2 | 99% |
| Democracy Corps Inc Wework C/O Democracy Corps | $211,471 | 1 | 19% |
| Faith in Public Life Action Fund | $200,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Strategic Victory Fund Ie PAC | $190,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 42 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priorities USA Action | $25,161,570 | 4 | n/a |
| America Votes | $2,690,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Fair Fight Action Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 9% |
| The Good Land Committee Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Unite Here Action Fund | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Highway 31 | $910,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith Forward | $225,000 | 2 | 99% |
| Democracy Corps Inc Wework C/O Democracy Corps | $211,471 | 1 | 19% |
| Faith in Public Life Action Fund | $200,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Strategic Victory Fund Ie PAC | $190,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mothering Justice | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Black Church Action Fund | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Alianza For progress inc | $150,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Latino Victory Project | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Care in Action Inc | $130,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Colorofchange PAC | $117,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorofchangeorg | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Votevets Action Fund Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center | $100,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Run for Something Action Fund | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Majority Forward | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Women Vote | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Protecting Our Future Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Collective Future | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rise Action Fund | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Run for Something PAC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Voices Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Floridians for a Fair Democracy Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Latino Victory Project | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Latino Community Fund Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Native Voice Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Inter Tribal Council of Arizona Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Asian American Midwest Progressives | $20,000 | 1 | 18% |
| One Apia Nevada | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pennsylvania Stands Up Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ohio Coalition on Black Civic Participation | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| North Dakota Native Vote | $15,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Progress Georgia Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| America's Future Fund Action Fund | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| We Are Down Home | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nm Native Vote | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Priorities USA supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 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: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · State Engagement Fund · Clean and Prosperous America · New Venture Fund · Onward Together · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc
How this is measured
About Priorities USA
- How much does Priorities USA give?
- Priorities USA reported 10 itemized grants totaling $335,000, out of $345,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Priorities USA fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (78%), Public Benefit (21%), Crime & Legal (1%).
- Who are Priorities USA's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Priorities USA Action ($25M), America Votes ($2.7M), Fair Fight Action Inc ($2.0M).
- Does Priorities USA fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Priorities USA?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Tides Advocacy.
- Where is Priorities USA based?
- Priorities USA is based in DC.
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