North Carolina · Public charity
Sheriff Accountability Action
Saa works with partner organizations to build a collective vision for an alternative role of sherrif make sure every person in the country knows where their sheriff stands elect a wave of sheriffs who share that vision hold new sheriffs accountable for their promises and challenge long time sheriffs to follow their lead.
- $855k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $828k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $405,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $953k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Sheriff Accountability Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $491k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $828k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $616k | 69% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $792k | 89% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $198k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $680k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $315k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working Families Organization Inc | $575,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Local Accountability PAC | $559,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Working Families Party National PAC | $360,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wfp Ma Ie PAC | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Eliseo Santana PAC | $165,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith in Action Network | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Promise of Justice Initiative | $108,182 | 3 | 2% |
| The Fairness Project | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Faith in Action Fund | $85,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Asian American Advocacy Fund Inc | $78,182 | 2 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working Families Organization Inc | $575,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Local Accountability PAC | $559,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Working Families Party National PAC | $360,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wfp Ma Ie PAC | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Eliseo Santana PAC | $165,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith in Action Network | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Promise of Justice Initiative | $108,182 | 3 | 2% |
| The Fairness Project | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Faith in Action Fund | $85,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Asian American Advocacy Fund Inc | $78,182 | 2 | 2% |
| PAC for Justice | $63,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mijente | $60,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Resolute Republic | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| New Florida Vision | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Florida Rising Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Acting in Community Together in Organizing Northern Nevada | $38,182 | 2 | 4% |
| Ohio Voice | $38,000 | 1 | 2% |
| El Pueblo Inc | $36,500 | 2 | 2% |
| New Georgia Project Action Fund | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ohio Families Unite for Political Action and Change | $33,182 | 2 | n/a |
| American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation Inc | $32,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Western Futures Fund Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Workers Defense Action Fund | $30,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Tides Advocacy | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Corridor of Resistance | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Siembra Nc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Progressive Maryland Education Fund Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Emancipate NC Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Ivan Almonte Pimental (Asheville Creative Arts) | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Help for Homelessness and Beyond | $18,182 | 1 | 11% |
| Faith in Indiana | $18,182 | 1 | n/a |
| Coalition for Social Justice Action Fund Inc | $18,182 | 1 | 24% |
| Faith in Florida Inc | $18,182 | 1 | n/a |
| Glahr Action Network | $18,182 | 1 | 1% |
| Rural Organizing Project | $18,182 | 1 | 2% |
| Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition | $18,182 | 1 | 1% |
| People Organized For Westside Renewal POWER | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Living Through Giving Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ncaat in Action | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Light House Group Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Catalyst Impact Montana | $15,000 | 1 | 60% |
| Mass Alliance Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Orchid Bloom | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Down Home Nc | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Dayton Young Black Professionals | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dignity and Power Now | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Vision Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Utah Donor Collaborative Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Inland Empire United Action Fund | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Down Home North Carolina Independent Expenditure Committee | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohio Immigrant Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Klickitat Voters for Responsible Government | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Progressive Maryland Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 3% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility Victory Fund | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ladder Strategies and Solutions Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Sheriff Accountability Action supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Foundation · Open Society Action Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · New Venture Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · America Votes · The Heising-Simons Action Fund
How this is measured
About Sheriff Accountability Action
- How much does Sheriff Accountability Action give?
- Sheriff Accountability Action reported 14 itemized grants totaling $828,182, out of $855,300 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sheriff Accountability Action fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (54%), Civil Rights (26%), Crime & Legal (6%).
- Who are Sheriff Accountability Action's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Working Families Organization Inc ($575k), Local Accountability PAC ($559k), Working Families Party National PAC ($360k).
- Does Sheriff Accountability Action fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sheriff Accountability Action?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include All Hands on Deck Network Inc, Tides Foundation, Open Society Action Fund Inc.
- Where is Sheriff Accountability Action based?
- Sheriff Accountability Action is based in NC.
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