· Public charity
Purple Action Inc
To promote policies that strengthen America's democracy, drive innovation and the growth that it propels, and ensure that all Americans have a right to live, work, and speak freely and, in general, all other permissible activities for a Section 501(c)(4)- cont.Schedule O
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $684k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Working for America Policy | $250,000 |
| Green Dragon Society | $250,000 |
| Per Aspera Policy | $200,000 |
| American Moment Inc | $200,000 |
| Quincy Inst for Responsibl | $175,000 |
| Social Good Fund | $108,696 |
| Los Angeles Police Fdn | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…
With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.
21st Century Policy Institute engages in public policy advocacy including advocacy to sustain a dialog around the critical importance of Americas economic and military strength and the related implications both domestically and abroad.
It is the mission of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) to provide education, research, analysis and recommendations to policy makers, opinion leaders and the American people designed to help solve public policy problems through…
The organization engaged in public communications and issue education activities related to national security, the protection of life, and tax and spending issues.
American Prosperity Alliances mission is to advocate for legislative and regulatory policies that advance economic prosperity in America.
To study and promote positive reform of American public institutions. To this end we undertake public interest research journalism and public media especially via Palladium Magazine convene meetings workshops and community events.
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
To engage in research, education and public awareness campaigns relating to the national security, intelligence and foreign and national policy of the United States of America, and freedom in America and the World. Also to engage in those…
Research and education of United Nations activities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Conservative and the most unlike its peers is Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE ↗
- Who funds American Moment Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN DRAGON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORKING FOR AMERICA POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT ↗
- Who funds PER ASPERA POLICY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Over the Horizon Action ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology ↗
- Who funds American Exceptionalism Public Policy Committee ↗
- Who funds Govern for California ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE ↗
- Who funds An America United Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Thomas D Klingenstein Fund · Donors Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Purple Action Inc 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.
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.
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