How much does Public Wise Inc give?

Public Wise Inc reported 27 itemized grants totaling $1,276,293, out of $1,377,552 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Public Wise Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (53%), Civil Rights (28%), Recreation & Sports (8%).

Who are Public Wise Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Way to Win ($550k), National Redistricting Action Fund ($525k), Public Wise PAC ($400k).

Does Public Wise Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Public Wise Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Way to Win Action Fund Inc.

Where is Public Wise Inc based?

Public Wise Inc is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Public Wise Inc

To secure a government that reflects the will and protects the rights of the people.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 27
Itemized grants FY2024: 20
Organizations funded FY2023: 45%
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: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $150,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 27; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 7
Total assets, FY2024: $3.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Public Wise Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther

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	26	$1.3M	35%
FY2023	20	$1.2M	45%
FY2022	27	$1.9M	70%
FY2021	15	$1.0M	93%
FY2020	14	$1.4M	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, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.6MCivil Rights$1.9MRecreation & Sports$550kCommunity Improvement$354kEnvironment$125kCrime & Legal$100kHuman Services$75kEducation$50kOther$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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Way to Win	$550,000	3	n/a
National Redistricting Action Fund	$525,000	4	3%
Public Wise PAC	$400,000	1	n/a
America Votes	$352,268	4	0%
Way to Win Action Fund Inc	$250,000	1	1%
Tides Advocacy	$225,000	4	0%
Sheriff Accountability Action	$224,000	3	7%
Fair Fight Action Inc	$200,000	1	0%
Mi Familia Vota	$175,000	3	4%
New Georgia Project Action Fund	$175,000	3	1%

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All grantees of Public Wise Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Way to Win	$550,000	3	n/a
National Redistricting Action Fund	$525,000	4	3%
Public Wise PAC	$400,000	1	n/a
America Votes	$352,268	4	0%
Way to Win Action Fund Inc	$250,000	1	1%
Tides Advocacy	$225,000	4	0%
Sheriff Accountability Action	$224,000	3	7%
Fair Fight Action Inc	$200,000	1	0%
Mi Familia Vota	$175,000	3	4%
New Georgia Project Action Fund	$175,000	3	1%
Common Cause	$150,000	1	2%
Fight for the Base	$150,000	1	n/a
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd	$150,000	1	1%
Down Home Nc	$150,000	3	3%
Black Male Voter Project Ef Inc	$125,000	2	34%
Care in Action Inc	$125,000	3	1%
Free Speech for People Inc	$125,000	2	3%
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc	$115,000	2	2%
Progress North Carolina Action	$115,000	1	1%
League of Conservation Voters Inc	$100,000	2	0%
Working Families Organization Inc	$100,000	2	0%
Rural Arizona Action	$100,000	2	6%
Organize Pennsylvania	$100,000	2	1%
Asian American Advocacy Fund Inc	$85,000	3	1%
The Watershed Center Inc	$80,000	2	9%
Common Defense Civic Engagement Inc	$75,000	2	10%
State Democracy Action	$75,000	1	46%
American Oversight Inc	$75,000	1	2%
Ncaat in Action	$75,000	2	2%
Entertain Impact Advocacy Alliance Inc	$75,000	3	37%
Center for Community Change Action	$75,000	1	1%
Advance Democracy Inc	$75,000	1	2%
Generation Vote Action	$70,000	2	n/a
Vote Rev Action Fund	$65,000	2	1%
Black Men Vote Civic Action Fund	$55,000	1	82%
Drag Out the Vote	$50,000	1	41%
Promote the Vote Fund Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Black Girls Vote 4 Her Inc	$50,000	1	8%
Siembra Nc	$50,000	1	2%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Accountableus	$50,000	1	1%
One Pennsylvania Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Arizona Advocacy Network	$50,000	1	3%
Our Missouri Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Campaign for Accountability Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Center for Common Ground	$50,000	1	1%
Voteorg	$50,000	1	2%
Democracy North Carolina	$50,000	1	1%
Adrc Action	$50,000	1	1%
Campaign for Accountability & Transparency Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Voter Formation Project	$50,000	1	2%
Living United for Change in Arizona	$50,000	1	1%
Arizona Wins	$25,000	1	2%
Sister District Action Network	$25,000	1	2%
Instituto Power	$25,000	1	2%
Americas Future Project Action Fund	$25,000	1	n/a
New American Leaders Action Fund Inc	$25,000	1	11%
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Lincoln Democracy Institute Inc	$25,000	1	3%
New York Immigration Coalition Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Alliance for Youth Action	$25,000	1	0%
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum	$24,669	1	0%
Michigan Civic Action Fund	$20,000	1	0%
Democracy Sentry	$10,000	1	1%

Public Wise Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 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 57.

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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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC64.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Women Donors Network Action · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · New Venture Fund · Grove Action Fund

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 Wise Inc

How much does Public Wise Inc give?: Public Wise Inc reported 27 itemized grants totaling $1,276,293, out of $1,377,552 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Public Wise Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (53%), Civil Rights (28%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
Who are Public Wise Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Way to Win ($550k), National Redistricting Action Fund ($525k), Public Wise PAC ($400k).
Does Public Wise Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Public Wise Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Way to Win Action Fund Inc.
Where is Public Wise Inc based?: Public Wise Inc is based in NY.