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Purple Action Inc at a glance

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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

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.6MCivil Rights$500kCommunity Improvement$225kPhilanthropy$109kScience & Tech$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kSocial Science$15k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $684k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$200,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Working for America Policy$250,000
Green Dragon Society$250,000
American Moment Inc$200,000
Per Aspera Policy$200,000
Quincy Inst for Responsibl$175,000
Social Good Fund$108,696
Los Angeles Police Fdn$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Los Angeles Police Fdn: $25k → 14%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.
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 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.

1
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

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…

International
2
American Policy Coalition

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.

Public Benefit
3
21st Century Policy Institute

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.

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4
Institute for Policy Innovation

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…

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5
American Exceptionalism Institute

The organization engaged in public communications and issue education activities related to national security, the protection of life, and tax and spending issues.

Community Improvement
6
American Prosperity Alliance

American Prosperity Alliances mission is to advocate for legislative and regulatory policies that advance economic prosperity in America.

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7
American Governance Foundation Inc

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.

Social Science
8
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

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9
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
10
United States Public Policy Council

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…

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11
Pax Americana Institute Inc
Education
12
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Conservative; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
4/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Moment Inc: $350,000 · Public BenefitAmerican Moment IncMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $250,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEAR…GREEN DRAGON SOCIETY: $250,000 · Public BenefitGREEN DRAGON SOCIETYWORKING FOR AMERICA POLICY INC: $250,000 · OtherWORKING FOR AMERICA POLICY INCPER ASPERA POLICY INCORPORATED: $200,000 · OtherPER ASPERA POLICY INCORPORATEDOver the Horizon Action: $150,000 · OtherOver the Horizon ActionAmerican Exceptionalism Public Policy Committee: $50,000 · OtherAmerican Exceptionalism Public Po…GLOBE ACTION INC: $50,000 · OtherGLOBE ACTION INC+3 more: $65,000 · Other+3 moreBUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE: $500,000 · Civil RightsBUILDING AMERICA'S FUTU…Govern for California: $40,000 · Civil RightsGovern for CaliforniaQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT: $225,000 · Community ImprovementQUINCY IN…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $108,696 · EducationCenter for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology: $75,000 · Science & TechTHE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE: $35,000 · Arts & Culture
Public Benefit$850,000Other$765,000Civil Rights$540,000Community Improvement$225,000Education$108,696Science & Tech$75,000Arts & Culture$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE: $500,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAmerican Moment Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREEN DRAGON SOCIETY: $250,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWORKING FOR AMERICA POLICY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT: $225,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPER ASPERA POLICY INCORPORATED: $200,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetOver the Horizon Action: $150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $108,696 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology: $75,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetGovern for California: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE: $35,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAn America United Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Thomas D Klingenstein…Donors Trust IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Thomas D Klingenstein FundNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas D Klingenstein Fund · Donors Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Purple Action Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Purple Action Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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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