How much does Proteus Action League give?

Proteus Action League reported 42 itemized grants totaling $1,255,382, out of $1,290,382 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Proteus Action League fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (49%), Civil Rights (31%), Crime & Legal (13%).

Who are Proteus Action League's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Death Penalty Litigation ($975k), Tides Advocacy ($565k), Womens Action for New Directions Inc ($475k).

Does Proteus Action League fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Proteus Action League?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include All Hands on Deck Network Inc, Tides Advocacy, Sixteen Thirty Fund.

Where is Proteus Action League based?

Proteus Action League is based in MA.

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Massachusetts · Public charity

Proteus Action League

PROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE (pal) is a 501(c)(4) organization that advances democracy and human rights. Pal convenes and facilitates donor collaboratives, partners with innovative projects through fiscal sponsorship, and offers donor advised c4 accounts.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 42
Itemized grants FY2024: 28
Organizations funded FY2023: 39%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $150,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 44; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 20
Total assets, FY2024: $1.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 39% of the organizations Proteus Action League funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPublic BenefitEducationOther

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
FY2024still arriving	42	$1.3M	67%
FY2023	28	$574k	39%
FY2022	34	$831k	50%
FY2020	44	$942k	64%
FY2019	37	$1.0M	65%
FY2018	28	$1.8M	61%
FY2017	18	$1.3M	n/a

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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.

Public Benefit$3.8MCivil Rights$2.4MCrime & Legal$1.0MCommunity Improvement$260kInternational$125kEnvironment$93kHuman Services$15kReligion$12k

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
Center for Death Penalty Litigation	$975,066	2	28%
Tides Advocacy	$564,500	8	0%
Womens Action for New Directions Inc	$474,999	3	68%
Citizen Action of New York Inc	$356,000	2	22%
Tirrc Votes	$300,200	7	18%
NIAC Action	$290,100	7	23%
Emgage Action Inc	$255,000	4	30%
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	$250,000	3	2%
Organizers in the Land of Enchantment	$235,000	3	9%
Common Cause	$229,500	8	1%

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All grantees of Proteus Action League by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Center for Death Penalty Litigation	$975,066	2	28%
Tides Advocacy	$564,500	8	0%
Womens Action for New Directions Inc	$474,999	3	68%
Citizen Action of New York Inc	$356,000	2	22%
Tirrc Votes	$300,200	7	18%
NIAC Action	$290,100	7	23%
Emgage Action Inc	$255,000	4	30%
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	$250,000	3	2%
Organizers in the Land of Enchantment	$235,000	3	9%
Common Cause	$229,500	8	1%
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action	$151,000	4	56%
Council for a Livable World	$125,000	4	10%
Progressive Maryland Inc	$120,000	8	10%
NC For the People Action (formerly NC Voters for Clean Elections)	$105,000	6	74%
Jobs With Justice Ballot Fund	$100,000	1	n/a
McCe Action	$93,500	5	69%
Ohio Families Unite for Political Action and Change	$80,000	4	37%
Arkansas Public Policy Panel Inc	$80,000	3	7%
Boston Black Covid-19 Coalition Co Massvote	$76,337	1	n/a
Justice Not Politics	$75,000	6	37%
Washington Community Alliance Action Fund	$75,000	1	11%
Marypirg Citizen Lobby Inc	$70,000	6	8%
Arizona Advocacy Network	$67,500	3	17%
Mi Familia Vota	$65,000	3	1%
Open Democracy Action	$60,000	4	32%
United Working Families	$60,000	3	3%
Working Families Organization Inc	$60,000	3	0%
Project Maine Elections	$60,000	2	n/a
Reform for Illinois	$50,000	1	21%
Floridians for Open Democracy	$50,000	1	n/a
New York State Immigrant Action Fund Incorporated	$50,000	2	11%
Margaret Films - LLC	$50,000	1	n/a
Grassroots Global Justice Action Fund	$50,000	1	19%
Adrc Action	$50,000	1	1%
Long Island Progressive Coalition Inc	$50,000	1	12%
New York Communities For Change Inc	$47,500	1	2%
Showing Up for Racial Justice Inc	$45,000	1	1%
Organization for Black Struggle	$43,000	6	4%
Progressive Caucus Action Fund	$40,000	2	1%
Michigan Peoples Campaign	$40,000	1	15%
Oakland Fair Elections	$40,000	1	n/a
Proteus Action League	$35,000	1	2%
Voters Not Money	$35,000	1	n/a
Woven Action Inc	$33,762	1	7%
Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc	$33,000	2	0%
Ohio River Valley Environmental Coalition	$32,000	3	2%
Justice Not Politics Alaska	$31,000	3	n/a
Progress Florida Inc	$30,000	2	n/a
Poder in Action	$30,000	2	1%
Southern Center for Human Rights	$30,000	3	0%
Community Voices Heard Power Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Jewish Voice for Peace Action Incorporated	$30,000	1	4%
UltraViolet Action	$30,000	1	7%
Mijente	$28,950	2	2%
The Black Collective Inc	$27,826	1	6%
Colorofchangeorg	$25,500	2	0%
Emancipate NC Inc	$25,000	2	2%
Equity Action	$25,000	1	3%
South Asian American Coalition to Renew Democracy Acts	$25,000	1	74%
Unite Oregon Action	$25,000	2	26%
Arab Americans for Progress	$25,000	1	1%
New Disabled South Rising Inc	$25,000	1	20%
Action Center on Race and the Economy	$22,500	1	6%
Organize Action	$20,320	1	0%
Emancipate Votes	$20,000	1	21%
United We Dream Action	$20,000	1	1%
Jolt Action Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Coalition of Communities of Color	$20,000	1	1%
Kcc-The Kentucky Conservation Committee Inc	$18,000	1	13%
Project Say Something	$15,000	2	5%
Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc	$15,000	1	1%
New Pennsylvania Project	$15,000	1	1%
Oneamerica Votes	$15,000	1	n/a
Center For Racial and Gender E NFP	$15,000	2	4%
Think Tennessee	$15,000	2	1%
Women With A Vision	$15,000	1	1%
Goodnation Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Just Strategy	$15,000	1	2%
Sister District Action Network	$15,000	1	3%
Hometown Action	$15,000	2	n/a
MapLight	$15,000	1	1%
America Votes	$15,000	1	0%
Opportunity Arizona	$15,000	1	0%
Project Say Something Direct Action	$15,000	1	n/a
Yemeni American Merchant Association Inc	$15,000	1	5%
The Bloc Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Florida Watch Inc	$15,000	1	0%
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee	$15,000	1	2%
Ohio Womens Alliance Action Fund	$15,000	1	5%
New Era Colorado Action Fund	$15,000	1	1%
Oregon State Public Interest Research Group Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Texas Campaign for the Environment	$15,000	1	1%
Kansas Values Institute	$15,000	1	0%
Faith in Minnesota	$15,000	1	1%
West Virginia Citizen Action Group	$15,000	1	4%
Apano	$15,000	1	5%
Forward Mt	$15,000	1	1%
Somali Community Resettlement	$15,000	1	1%
Adc Research Institute	$15,000	1	7%
Pa Alliance Action	$15,000	1	0%
Fair Fight Action Inc	$15,000	1	0%
South Carolina Progressive Network	$15,000	1	n/a
Poder	$15,000	1	1%
Arab American Civic Council	$14,700	1	19%
Council On American-Islamic Relations	$14,256	1	1%
Center for Empowered Politics	$12,500	1	0%
Sierra Club	$12,500	1	0%
Black Youth Project 100 NFP	$12,500	1	1%
Congregations Caring for Creation	$12,000	3	1%
Citizens Action Coalition Inc	$12,000	1	2%
Council on American Islamic Relations of Arizona	$12,000	1	7%
Land Stewardship Project	$11,215	2	0%
People's Action Institute	$10,216	1	0%
Northern Plains Resource Council	$10,000	1	0%
Emgage Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Groundswell Action Fund	$10,000	1	0%
Texas Freedom Network	$10,000	1	1%
Opportunity 2 Restore	$10,000	1	3%
Repower	$10,000	1	1%
Indigenous Iowa Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Right to the City Action Fund	$10,000	1	0%
Institute Middle East Understanding Policy Project	$10,000	1	1%
Keys Empowers Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Marked By COVID	$10,000	1	18%
Way to Win Action Fund Inc	$10,000	1	0%
All Hands on Deck Network Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
The People's Lobby	$10,000	1	3%
Black Phoenix Votes	$10,000	1	4%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$10,000	1	0%
Working Committee for Peace and Justice	$9,550	1	10%
Dakota Rural Action	$9,040	1	1%
Illinois Peoples Action	$8,000	1	3%
Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio Uujo	$7,000	2	7%
Dakota Resource Council	$7,000	1	1%
Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside	$6,820	1	n/a
Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota	$5,000	1	0%
Society of Native Nations	$5,000	1	6%
New York Immigration Coalition Inc	$5,000	1	0%
City Club of Portland	$5,000	1	2%
Mississippi Center for Justice	$5,000	1	0%
The Knights & Orchids Society Inc	$4,500	1	1%
Buckeye Environmental Network	$4,000	1	2%
Voter Choice Albany	$2,000	1	n/a

Proteus Action League supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 126 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 126.

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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.

All Hands on Deck Network IncMA102.6× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · America Votes · Tides Foundation · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · North Fund · Center for Community Change Action

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 Proteus Action League

How much does Proteus Action League give?: Proteus Action League reported 42 itemized grants totaling $1,255,382, out of $1,290,382 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Proteus Action League fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (49%), Civil Rights (31%), Crime & Legal (13%).
Who are Proteus Action League's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Death Penalty Litigation ($975k), Tides Advocacy ($565k), Womens Action for New Directions Inc ($475k).
Does Proteus Action League fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Proteus Action League?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include All Hands on Deck Network Inc, Tides Advocacy, Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Where is Proteus Action League based?: Proteus Action League is based in MA.