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Responsive Gov Action Inc

Responsive gov action, inc.

$7.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Public Benefit$5.4MCommunity Improvement$975kCivil Rights$660kEmployment$250kEducation$50kHuman Services$40k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $385k
  • $250k+10 grants · $6.8M
$500,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VOTER PROJECT$1,000,000
FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC$1,000,000
YOUR COMMUNITY PAC INC$975,000
NEVADA ALLIANCE$950,000
RETIRE CAREER POLITICIANS INC$900,000
COLORADANS FOR PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM$510,000
INFORMING DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND$500,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR LARGE ELECTION JURISDICTIONS$500,000
STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND$250,000
AMERICA WORKS USA$250,000
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC$150,000
PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE$135,000
ELECTION DEFENSE FUND INC$100,000
SOMOS$40,000
NO ON 2$15,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%YOUR COMMUNITY PAC INC: $975k → 10%THE VOTER PROJECT: $1.0M → 22%SOMOS: $40k → 11%WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $150k → 20%RETIRE CAREER POLITICIANS INC: $900k → 14%ELECTION DEFENSE FUND INC: $100k → 13%FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $1.0M → 14%COLORADANS FOR PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM: $510k → 12%NO ON 2: $15k → 10%NEVADA ALLIANCE: $950k → 13%INFORMING DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND: $500k → 14%END CITIZENS UNITED-LET AMERICA VOTE ACTION FUND: $10k → 14%AMERICA WORKS USA: $250k → 14%STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND: $250k → 14%PROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE: $135k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR LARGE ELECTION JURISDICTIONS: $500k → 14%AMERICA WORKS USA: $50k → 14%AMERICA VOTES: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NY
NV
PA
CO
DE
DC
GA
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.

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All Americans Vote

All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!

Civil Rights
2
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
3
Fair Democracy

Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…

Civil Rights
4
Election Watch Inc

Research analyze publish information to public on elections election systems laws and campaign financing.

Civil Rights
5
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
6
Guarantee Our Votes Project

Protect voting rights in the united states for all citizens and expand voting rights to citizens who have been historically disenfranchised or under-represented in the electoral process.

Civil Rights
7
America Votes Education Fund

America Votes Education Fund is dedicated to expanding all voters' access to the ballot through a grantmaking program.

Civil Rights
8
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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9
Keystone Democracy

Keystone Democracy's goal is to ensure that all Pennsylvania elections are implemented in a safe, secure, convenient and fair manner. We work to advance pro-democracy policies by informing elected officials, civic leaders, the media, and…

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10
Transparent Elections for Grassroots Engagement 1

Support state initative petition

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11
Secure Democracy Usa

Secure Democracy USA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to build stronger elections, state by state.

Civil Rights
12
Send the Vote Inc

Conduct digital, direct mail and other public communication campaigns to support voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State Democracy Action Fund; the most unlike its peers is No on 2. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
4/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Voter Project: $1,000,000 · OtherThe Voter ProjectYOUR COMMUNITY PAC: $975,000 · OtherYOUR COMMUNITY PACNEVADA ALLIANCE: $950,000 · OtherNEVADA ALLIANCERETIRE CAREER POLITICIANS: $900,000 · OtherRETIRE CAREER POLITICIANSCOLORADANS FOR PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM: $510,000 · OtherCOLORADANS FOR PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOMAMERICA WORKS USA: $300,000 · OtherAMERICA WORKS USA+4 more: $290,000 · Other+4 moreFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationFAIR FIGHT ACTI…Partnership for Large Election Juri: $500,000 · Public BenefitPartnership…STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND: $250,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMOC…INFORMING DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 · Civil RightsINFORMING …WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $150,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FA…+1 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsAmerica Votes: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$4,925,000Education$1,000,000Public Benefit$750,000Civil Rights$660,000Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Voter Project: $1,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNEVADA ALLIANCE: $950,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCOLORADANS FOR PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM: $510,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPartnership for Large Election Juri: $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetINFORMING DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetAMERICA WORKS USA: $300,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC: $135,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetELECTION DEFENSE FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSOMOS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNo on 2: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEND CITIZENS UNITED LET AMERICA VOTE ACTION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerica Votes: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundWay to Win Action Fun…North FundOur American Future A…America VotesNational Education As…Global Impact Social …Open Society Action F…Hopewell FundTides Foundation
Sixteen Thirty FundDC21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · North Fund · Our American Future Action · America Votes · National Education Association of the United States · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation

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 Responsive Gov Action Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Responsive Gov Action Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Responsive Gov Action Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Responsive Gov 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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