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Progressive Caucus Action Fund

The PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND ("the pcaf") is working across the progressive movement to unite stakeholders around common goals, build infrastructure, and secure real policy wins.

$10k
Granted FY2022
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Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212022.

Public Benefit$50kCivil Rights$20kEducation$10kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE AMERICA VOTES$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TAKEACTION MINNESOTA ED FUND: $10k → 14%NEO PHILANTHROPY (NBWC): $10k → 17%MOTHERING JUSTICE: $10k → 21%NEW GEORGIA PROJECT: $10k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $10k → 9%WEST VIRGINIA CITIZENS ACTION GROUP: $10k → 18%THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY: $10k → 14%RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE: $10k → 10%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

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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 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.

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Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
2
One for Democracy Action Fund

One for democracy unlocks resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time.

3
Powerswitch Action

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

Community Improvement
4
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
6
Right to Democracy Action

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in u.s. territories, including by promoting civic engagement among the territorial diaspora throughout the united states.

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League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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League of Women Voters of New Jersey Education Fund

Lwvnj-ef's nonpartisan voter education and voter protection work ensures everyone has the tools, resources, and confidence they need to participate fully at the ballot box and beyond.

Civil Rights
9
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
10
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
11
Change Illinois Action Fund

Change illinois action fund is dedicated to advocating for solutions to the issues that undermine democracy and government efficiency in illinois, including restricted ballot access, uncompetitive elections, decreased citizen…

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New American Leaders Action Fund Inc

New american leaders action fund (nalaf) is building a democracy that represents and includes all people by engaging new voters, supporting new americans as they run for office, and expanding civic engagement.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rights & Democracy Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for a Just Society. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY — $10,000 · OtherTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBYNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND — $10,000 · OtherNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUNDWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION GROUP — $10,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION GROUPTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION F…NEO Philanthropy Inc — $10,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy IncMOTHERING JUSTICE — $10,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICEONEAMERICA VOTES — $10,000 · Civil RightsONEAMERICA VOTESRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalRIGHTS & DEM…ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $10,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR…
Other$30,000Public Benefit$20,000Civil Rights$20,000Crime & Legal$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

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 budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONEAMERICA VOTES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION GROUP — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Proteus Action LeagueMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Progressive Caucus Action Fund 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
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    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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 9 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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