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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Run for Something Action Fund

The organization's mission is to recruit, support and mobilize diverse young people to get involved in the civic life of their communities on a nonpartisan basis, especially state and local government. The organization is committed to building the next generation of civic-minded, engaged, voters.

$1.0M
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$750,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$750,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$4.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Run for Something Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$1.0M50%
FY20226$1.9M83%
FY20211$180kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Public Benefit$2.5MEducation$250kCivil Rights$160kHuman Services$80k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Run for Something PAC$2,380,0003n/a
Civic Nation$250,00012%
Great Lakes Political Academy$85,0001n/a
603 Forward$80,000116%
Promote the Vote Pa$80,000153%
Wisconsin Progress$80,0001n/a
Lead PA$80,000116%

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About Run for Something Action Fund

How much does Run for Something Action Fund give?
Run for Something Action Fund reported 2 grants totaling $1,000,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Run for Something Action Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (84%), Education (8%), Civil Rights (5%).
Who are Run for Something Action Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Run for Something PAC ($2.4M), Civic Nation ($250k), Great Lakes Political Academy ($85k).
Does Run for Something Action Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Run for Something Action Fund based?
Run for Something Action Fund is based in DC.

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 7 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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