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Priorities USA

PRIORITIES USA exists to activate & empower americans.

$345k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$190k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$28MPublic Benefit$7.6MCrime & Legal$250kCommunity Improvement$170kEducation$40kPhilanthropy$20kInternational$20k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $335,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $345,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $190k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND IE PAC$190,000
AMERICA VOTES$20,000
NORTH FUND$20,000
ASIAN AMERICAN MIDWEST PROGRESSIVES$20,000
PENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC$20,000
WESTERN NATIVE VOICE INC$20,000
NORTH DAKOTA NATIVE VOTE$15,000
NM NATIVE VOTE$10,000
AMERICA'S FUTURE FUND ACTION FUND$10,000
WE ARE DOWN HOME$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICA'S FUTURE FUND ACTION FUND: $10k → 11%FAITH 2020 INC: $150k → 10%WESTERN NATIVE VOICE INC: $20k → 9%COLOR OF CHANGE PAC: $118k → 10%RISE INC: $30k → 14%CARE IN ACTION INC: $130k → 17%LAS AMERICAS IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $100k → 21%COLLECTIVE FUTURE: $50k → 14%FLORIDIANS FOR A FAIR DEMOCRACY: $25k → 12%ALIANZA FOR PROGRESS: $150k → 13%MOTHERING JUSTICE: $150k → 21%HIGHWAY 31: $910k → 16%THE GOOD LAND COMMITTEE INC: $1.0M → 17%FAIR FIGHT ACTION: $1.0M → 14%ASIAN AMERICAN MIDWEST PROGRESSIVES: $20k → 14%NORTH DAKOTA NATIVE VOTE: $15k → 10%ONE APIA NEVADA: $20k → 13%INTER TRIBAL COUNCIL OF ARIZONA: $20k → 11%FAITH 2020 INC: $75k → 10%COLOR OF CHANGEORG: $100k → 10%UNITE HERE ACTION FUND: $1.0M → 17%PRIORITIES USA ACTION: $17.7M → 14%THE GOOD LAND COMMITTEE INC: $1.0M → 17%FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $1.0M → 14%BLACK LIVES MATTER NETWORK ACTION FUND: $100k → 10%PRIORITIES USA ACTION: $3.0M → 14%WISCONSIN VOICES: $30k → 17%PROGRESS GEORGIA INC: $15k → 14%PRIORITIES USA ACTION: $1.3M → 14%LATINO VICTORY PROJECT: $150k → 14%BLACK CHURCH ACTION FUND: $125k → 14%MAJORITY FORWARD: $100k → 14%PROTECTING OUR FUTURE INC: $50k → 14%DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE: $30k → 14%LATINO VICTORY PROJECT: $25k → 14%DEMOCRACY CORP: $211k → 14%BLACK CHURCH ACTION FUND: $25k → 14%PRIORITIES USA ACTION: $3.1M → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $2.6M → 14%FAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE ACTION FUND: $200k → 14%EMILY'S LIST NON-FEDERAL: $50k → 14%EMILY'S LIST NON-FEDERAL: $50k → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $35k → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $25k → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $20k → 14%NORTH FUND: $20k → 14%RUN FOR SOMETHING PAC: $30k → 14%OHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
ND
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
NV
PA
CA
DE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 7 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
28

Total granted

$32M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+37%

Still filing today

57%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PU
    PRIORITIES USA ACTION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $25M
  • AV
    America Votes
    5× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +495%
  • FF
    FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2.0M · revenue -43%

Funded once

  • UH
    UNITE HERE ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -26%
  • H3
    HIGHWAY 31
    one grant, 2017 · $910k
  • DC
    DEMOCRACY CORPS INC WEWORK C/O DEMOCRACY CORPS
    one grant, 2018 · $211k · revenue -90%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
All Americans Vote

All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!

Civil Rights
2
Send the Vote Inc

Conduct digital, direct mail and other public communication campaigns to support voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.

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3
Progressive Workers Coalition

To ensure that working class people are educated on their voting rights. The coalition engages in mobilization and educational information sessions to ensure that all workers voices are heard.

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4
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc

Our goal is to increase power in our communities through effective voting. We increase voter registration and help develop voting infrastructure and to pursue policies that expands access to the ballot.

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5
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
6
Fair Democracy

Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…

Civil Rights
7
Defend the Vote Action Fund

To sustain and support the prioritization of comprehensive voting rights and democracy reform legislation at all levels of government.

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8
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
9
Guarantee Our Votes Project

Protect voting rights in the united states for all citizens and expand voting rights to citizens who have been historically disenfranchised or under-represented in the electoral process.

Civil Rights
10
Coalition for Dc Representation in Congress Education Fund

Founded in 1998, dc vote is a national citizen engagement and advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening democracy and securing equality for all in the district of columbia.

Education
11
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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12
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith in Public Life Action Fund; the most unlike its peers is The Good Land Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 44 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/33
Grantees still filing
16/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRIORITIES USA ACTION: $25,161,570 · OtherPRIORITIES USA ACTIONThe Good Land Committee Inc: $2,000,000 · OtherThe Good Land Committee Inc+23 more: $3,742,700 · Other+23 moreAmerica Votes: $2,690,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $40,000 · Community ImprovementFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $2,000,000 · Education+2 more: $40,000 · EducationFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE ACTION FUND: $200,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICE: $150,000 · Civil RightsCare in Action Inc: $130,000 · Civil RightsWISCONSIN VOICES INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICAN MIDWEST PROGRESSIVES: $20,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $30,000 · Civil RightsDEMOCRACY CORPS INC WEWORK C/O DEMOCRACY CORPS: $211,471 · Public BenefitRUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND: $100,000 · Public BenefitNORTH FUND: $20,000 · Public BenefitLatino Community Fund Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyONE APIA NEVADA: $20,000 · International
Other$30,904,270Community Improvement$2,730,000Education$2,040,000Civil Rights$560,000Public Benefit$331,471Philanthropy$40,000International$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerica Votes: $2,690,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetThe Good Land Committee Inc: $2,000,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetFaith Forward: $225,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetDEMOCRACY CORPS INC WEWORK C/O DEMOCRACY CORPS: $211,471 over 1y, 19% of budgetFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE ACTION FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE: $150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAlianza For progress inc: $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCare in Action Inc: $130,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLAS AMERICAS IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMAJORITY FORWARD: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRISE ACTION FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWISCONSIN VOICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFloridians for a Fair Democracy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLATINO VICTORY PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLatino Community Fund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTER TRIBAL COUNCIL OF ARIZONA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN MIDWEST PROGRESSIVES: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetONE APIA NEVADA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNORTH FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA NATIVE VOTE: $15,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetProgress Georgia Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesTides AdvocacyAll Hands on Deck Net…Open Society Action F…Tides FoundationWay to Win Action Fun…State Engagement FundClean and Prosperous …New Venture FundOnward TogetherNEO Philanthropy Acti…
Sixteen Thirty FundDC44.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Priorities USA funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Priorities USA. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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