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Proteus Action League

PROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE (pal) is a 501(c)(4) organization that advances democracy and human rights.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$150k
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.

Public Benefit$3.8MCivil Rights$2.4MCrime & Legal$1.0MCommunity Improvement$260kInternational$125kEnvironment$93kHuman Services$15kReligion$12k
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $1,255,382, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,290,382 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,000 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–50k34 grants · $596k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $659k
$15,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEO PHILANTHROPY ACTION FUND$150,000
EMGAGE ACTION$125,000
NIAC ACTION$84,300
WASHINGTON COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ACTION-DBA PEOPLE POWERED ELECTIONS PAC$75,000
TIRRC VOTES$75,000
FLORIDIANS FOR OPEN DEMOCRACY$50,000
REFORM FOR ILLINOIS$50,000
GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE ACTION FUND$50,000
SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE ACTION$45,000
VOTERS NOT MONEY$35,000
WOVEN ACTION$33,762
ARAB AMERICANS FOR PROGRESS$25,000
SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION TO RENEW DEMOCRACY ACTS$25,000
OHIO FAMILIES UNITE FOR POLITICAL ACTION AND CHANGE$25,000
ACTION CENTER ON RACE AND THE ECONOMY$22,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $544k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOMALI COMMUNITY RESETTLEMENT OF OLMSTED COUNTY: $15k → 11%ARAB AMERICAN CIVIC COUNCIL: $15k → 10%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $232k → 14%THE KNIGHTS AND ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC: $5k → 33%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $15k → 14%COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF WASHINGTON STATE: $14k → 9%PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $20k → 8%KEYS EMPOWERS INC: $10k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $91k → 14%PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $15k → 8%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $15k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $10k → 14%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND: $50k → 17%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $8k → 14%COMMUNITY VOTERS HEARD POWER: $30k → 17%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

AK
ME
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 36 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
79

Total granted

$5.5M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+34%

Still filing today

86%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $659k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • CENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $975k · revenue +71% · 28% of their budget
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $565k · revenue +130%
  • CA
    CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $356k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • JW
    JOBS WITH JUSTICE BALLOT FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -49%
  • BB
    BOSTON BLACK COVID-19 COALITION CO MASSVOTE
    one grant, 2020 · $76k
  • NY
    NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue -56%
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.

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Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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2
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights
3
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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4
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
5
Electoral Collective Action

Electoral Collective Action coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights
6
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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7
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
8
Bold Impact

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

Arts & Culture
9
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
10
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
11
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
12
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repower; the most unlike its peers is Long Island Progressive Coalition 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

152 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
143/152
Grantees still filing
77/152
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES ADVOCACY: $564,500 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYWOMENS ACTION FOR NEW DIRECTIONS INC: $474,999 · OtherWOMENS ACTION FOR NEW DIRECTIONS INCNIAC Action: $290,100 · OtherNIAC ActionEmgage Action Inc: $255,000 · OtherEmgage Action IncCOMMON CAUSE: $229,500 · OtherCOMMON CAUSECOUNCIL FOR A LIVABLE WORLD: $125,000 · Other+53 more: $1,405,697 · Other+53 moreTIRRC VOTES: $300,200 · Civil RightsTIRRC VOTESNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $250,000 · Civil RightsNEO Philanthropy Action Fu…MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTION: $151,000 · Civil RightsMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE…Ohio Families Unite for Political Action and Change: $80,000 · Civil RightsJUSTICE NOT POLITICS: $75,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA ADVOCACY NETWORK: $67,500 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA VOTA: $65,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $60,000 · Civil Rights+34 more: $732,370 · Civil Rights+34 moreCENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION: $975,066 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR DEA…+2 more: $30,000 · Crime & LegalCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $356,000 · Human ServicesCITIZEN A…PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesPROGRESSI…NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK …Community Voices Heard Power Inc: $30,000 · Human Services+7 more: $93,456 · Human Services+7 moreNC For the People Action (formerly NC Voters for Clean Elections): $105,000 · Public BenefitMCCE ACTION: $93,500 · Public BenefitWOVEN ACTION INC: $33,762 · Public BenefitJUSTICE NOT POLITICS ALASKA: $31,000 · Public BenefitPROGRESS FLORIDA INC: $30,000 · Public BenefitPoder in Action: $30,000 · Public BenefitUltraViolet Action: $30,000 · Public BenefitMapLight: $15,000 · Public BenefitNew Era Colorado Action Fund: $15,000 · Public Benefit+3 more: $30,000 · Public BenefitORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: $235,000 · Community ImprovementMIJENTE: $28,950 · Community ImprovementTHE BLACK COLLECTIVE INC: $27,826 · Community ImprovementAmerica Votes: $15,000 · Community ImprovementKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $38,216 · Community ImprovementARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $20,000 · EnvironmentKCC-THE KENTUCKY CONSERVATION COMMITTEE INC: $18,000 · EnvironmentTexas Campaign for the Environment: $15,000 · EnvironmentLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $11,215 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $7,000 · EnvironmentDAKOTA RESOURCE COUNCIL: $7,000 · Environment+1 more: $4,000 · Environment
Other$3,344,796Civil Rights$1,781,070Crime & Legal$1,005,066Human Services$649,456Public Benefit$413,262Community Improvement$359,992Environment$162,215

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION: $975,066 over 2y, 28% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $564,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWOMENS ACTION FOR NEW DIRECTIONS INC: $474,999 over 3y, 68% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $356,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTIRRC VOTES: $300,200 over 7y, 18% of budgetNIAC Action: $290,100 over 7y, 23% of budgetEmgage Action Inc: $255,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: $235,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $229,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTION: $151,000 over 4y, 56% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR A LIVABLE WORLD: $125,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $120,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetNC For the People Action (formerly NC Voters for Clean Elections): $105,000 over 6y, 74% of budgetMCCE ACTION: $93,500 over 5y, 69% of budgetOhio Families Unite for Political Action and Change: $80,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC: $80,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetJUSTICE NOT POLITICS: $75,000 over 6y, 37% of budgetWashington Community Alliance Action Fund: $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMARYPIRG CITIZEN LOBBY INC: $70,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetARIZONA ADVOCACY NETWORK: $67,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetMI FAMILIA VOTA: $65,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOpen Democracy Action: $60,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetUNITED WORKING FAMILIES: $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREFORM FOR ILLINOIS: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGrassroots Global Justice Action Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetADRC ACTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLONG ISLAND PROGRESSIVE COALITION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc: $47,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR BLACK STRUGGLE: $43,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMichigan Peoples Campaign: $40,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE: $35,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWOVEN ACTION INC: $33,762 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOHIO RIVER VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION: $32,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPoder in Action: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSouthern Center for Human Rights: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ACTION INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUltraViolet Action: $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMIJENTE: $28,950 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BLACK COLLECTIVE INC: $27,826 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $25,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEmancipate NC Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEquity Action: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

All Hands on Deck Net…Tides AdvocacySixteen Thirty FundProteus Fund IncOpen Society Action F…Way to Win Action Fun…Women Donors Network …America VotesTides FoundationInstructional Telecom…North FundCenter for Community …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Coalition of Communities of Color: 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 145 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home