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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$405k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Benefit$1.9MCivil Rights$882kCrime & Legal$206kCommunity Improvement$166kHousing & Shelter$118kHuman Services$64kPhilanthropy$55kArts & Culture$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $828,182, the rows itemized in this filing. The $855,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,118 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $245k
  • $250k+1 grant · $405k
$20,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$953k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOCAL ACCOUNTABILITY PAC$405,000
WFP NATIONAL PAC$195,000
NEW FLORIDA VISION PAC$50,000
WESTERN FUTURES FUND$30,000
CORRIDOR OF RESISTANCE$25,000
RESOLUTE REPUBLIC$25,000
EMANCIPATE NC$20,000
FAITH IN FLORIDA$18,182
ORCHID BLOOM$15,000
OHIO FAMILIES UNITE FOR POLITICAL ACTION AND CHANGE$15,000
UTAH DONOR COLLABORATIVE$10,000
OHIO IMMIGRANT ALLIANCE$10,000
LADDER STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS$5,000
WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY VICTORY FUND$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $18k → 11%NCAAT in Action: $15k → 8%FAITH IN INDIANA: $18k → 16%HELP FOR HOMELESSNESS AND BEYOND: $18k → 5%ACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZAING NORTHERN NEVADA: $18k → 10%Down Home North Carolina: $13k → 16%FAITH IN ACTION NEVADA: $20k → 10%EL PUEBLO: $20k → 8%EL PUEBLO: $17k → 8%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

WA
MT
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 12 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
35

Total granted

$2.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+34%

Still filing today

75%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $575k · revenue +57%
  • TP
    THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $108k · revenue +16%
  • AI
    ACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $38k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • WM
    WFP MA IE PAC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • FO
    Friends of Eliseo Santana PAC
    one grant, 2021 · $165k
  • TF
    THE FAIRNESS PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +144%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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2
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
3
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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4
Latino Political Network
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5
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
6
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
7
Freedom Action Now

Freedom action now, inc. (fan) is a radical queer black and southeast asian feminist organization creating change for the most impacted communities in wisconsin through voter education, leadership development, community organizing, and…

Civil Rights
8
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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11
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
12
Towards Justice of Colorado

Towards justice is a nonprofit law firm that seeks to advance economic equity and worker power through impact litigation, strategic policy advocacy, and collaboration with organizers and public agencies. we were founded in response to the…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Help for Homelessness and Beyond. 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

42 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. 42 of the 58 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
24/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOCAL ACCOUNTABILITY PAC: $559,000 · OtherLOCAL ACCOUNTABILITY PACWORKING FAMILIES PARTY NATIONAL PAC: $360,000 · OtherWORKING FAMILIES PARTY NATIONAL PACWFP MA IE PAC: $250,000 · OtherWFP MA IE PACFriends of Eliseo Santana PAC: $165,000 · OtherFriends of Eliseo Santana PACFAITH IN ACTION FUND: $85,000 · Other+22 more: $478,000 · Other+22 moreWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $575,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION…ASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC: $78,182 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND …FLORIDA RISING INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsOhio Families Unite for Political Action and Change: $33,182 · Civil RightsWORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $30,000 · Civil Rights+8 more: $129,546 · Civil Rights+8 moreFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $120,000 · Community ImprovementMIJENTE: $60,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN FLORIDA INC: $18,182 · Community ImprovementPeople Organized For Westside Renewal POWER: $15,000 · Community ImprovementACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA: $38,182 · Human ServicesEL PUEBLO INC: $36,500 · Human ServicesHELP FOR HOMELESSNESS AND BEYOND: $18,182 · Human ServicesFaith in Indiana: $18,182 · Human ServicesCOALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTION FUND INC: $18,182 · Human ServicesNCAAT IN ACTION: $15,000 · Human ServicesDOWN HOME NC: $12,500 · Human ServicesPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $108,182 · Crime & LegalEmancipate NC Inc: $20,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterWESTERN FUTURES FUND INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyDignity and Power Now: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,897,000Civil Rights$885,910Community Improvement$213,182Human Services$164,228Crime & Legal$128,182Housing & Shelter$100,000Philanthropy$55,000

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 budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $575,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $108,182 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION FUND: $85,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC: $78,182 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMIJENTE: $60,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA: $38,182 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $38,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEL PUEBLO INC: $36,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTH CAROLINA LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIEMBRA NC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEmancipate NC Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHELP FOR HOMELESSNESS AND BEYOND: $18,182 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTION FUND INC: $18,182 over 1y, 24% of budgetGLAHR ACTION NETWORK: $18,182 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $18,182 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $18,182 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPeople Organized For Westside Renewal POWER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNCAAT IN ACTION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE GROUP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCATALYST IMPACT MONTANA: $15,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetMASS ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN HOME NC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDignity and Power Now: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

All Hands on Deck Net…Tides FoundationOpen Society Action F…NEO Philanthropy IncSixteen Thirty FundNEO Philanthropy Acti…Tides AdvocacyNew Venture FundWay to Win Action Fun…Women Donors Network …America VotesThe Heising-Simons Ac…
All Hands on Deck Network IncMA35.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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