How much does Public Advocates Inc give?

Public Advocates Inc reported 18 grants totaling $1,048,936 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Public Advocates Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (26%), Education (14%), Crime & Legal (13%).

Who are Public Advocates Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Californians For Justice Education Fund ($741k), Right to the City Alliance ($614k), Tenants Together ($548k).

Does Public Advocates Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Public Advocates Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is Public Advocates Inc based?

Public Advocates Inc is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing, transportation equity, and climate justice. We spur change through collaboration with grassroots…

$1.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 18
Grants FY2025: 17
Organizations funded FY2024: 6%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $62,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $115,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 18; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $20M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Public Advocates Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementCivil RightsEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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
FY2025still arriving	17	$1.0M	41%
FY2024	17	$1.3M	6%
FY2023	18	$1.3M	28%
FY2022	16	$1.1M	38%
FY2021	17	$689k	24%
FY2020	18	$982k	89%
FY2019	2	$30k	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, FY2019 to 2025.

Civil Rights$1.7MEducation$895kCrime & Legal$818kHousing & Shelter$800kHuman Services$605kHealth$408kCommunity Improvement$360kFood & Nutrition$321kOther$0

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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Californians For Justice Education Fund	$741,400	6	2%
Right to the City Alliance	$613,540	5	1%
Tenants Together	$547,693	7	28%
ACCE Institute	$445,285	4	4%
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc	$407,758	5	1%
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law	$398,313	6	0%
Poverty and Race Research Action Council	$319,513	6	5%
United for a New Economy	$285,000	3	10%
Policylink	$280,998	6	0%
Make The Road States Inc	$277,500	3	1%

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All grantees of Public Advocates Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Californians For Justice Education Fund	$741,400	6	2%
Right to the City Alliance	$613,540	5	1%
Tenants Together	$547,693	7	28%
ACCE Institute	$445,285	4	4%
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc	$407,758	5	1%
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law	$398,313	6	0%
Poverty and Race Research Action Council	$319,513	6	5%
United for a New Economy	$285,000	3	10%
Policylink	$280,998	6	0%
Make The Road States Inc	$277,500	3	1%
North Carolina Housing Coalition Inc	$277,500	3	4%
The Education Trust Inc	$215,000	3	0%
Miami Workers Center Inc	$200,000	2	4%
Florida Rising Together Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
East Bay Community Law Center	$94,872	3	0%
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc	$94,872	3	1%
Catalyst California	$90,000	1	0%
National Housing and Community Development Law Project	$81,825	2	2%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc	$71,263	3	0%
Powerswitch Action	$71,258	3	0%
Legal Aid of Marin	$68,000	1	n/a
Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County	$68,000	1	4%
Sv Home	$64,000	1	n/a
People Power Media	$56,000	1	n/a
Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc	$55,500	2	1%
Parent Institute for Quality Education Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Faith In Action East Bay	$47,400	2	3%
Sacramento Area Congregations Together	$45,100	2	2%
Urban Habitat Program	$42,693	3	1%
Public Interest Law Project	$40,000	1	n/a
True North Organizing Network	$40,000	2	1%
Liberation in a Generation	$38,473	1	n/a
Orange County Congregation Community Organization	$37,000	2	4%
Gente Organizada	$30,000	1	1%
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action	$30,000	2	1%
Third Sector New England Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Kheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI	$30,000	1	2%
Opportunity for All Coalition	$25,000	1	16%
Schools and Communities First	$25,000	1	35%
Missouri Jobs With Justice	$24,500	1	2%
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute	$20,285	1	0%

Public Advocates Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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 35.

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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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA39.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Public Advocates Inc

How much does Public Advocates Inc give?: Public Advocates Inc reported 18 grants totaling $1,048,936 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Public Advocates Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (26%), Education (14%), Crime & Legal (13%).
Who are Public Advocates Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Californians For Justice Education Fund ($741k), Right to the City Alliance ($614k), Tenants Together ($548k).
Does Public Advocates Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Public Advocates Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Public Advocates Inc based?: Public Advocates Inc is based in CA.