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State Power Fund

The organization is dedicated to supporting innovative and effective public interest projects to build a just, equitable, and sustainable future by funding nonprofit organizations to accomplish needed change.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through 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, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.1MCivil Rights$1.1MEducation$933kPhilanthropy$535kHuman Services$420kCommunity Improvement$342kEnvironment$269kEmployment$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 60 grants below total $3,728,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,230,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $502,500 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k33 grants · $679k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
$30,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSOURI RURAL CRISIS CENTER$300,000
GROWW EDUCATION$300,000
ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION$280,000
ISAIAH$255,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$175,000
WISDOM INC$125,000
PASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC$115,000
FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC$109,200
TIDES FOUNDATION$100,000
WISCONSIN DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN INC$100,000
FORWARD TOGETHER WISCONSIN$100,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND$100,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WISCONSIN$90,000
WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC$75,000
SOUTHSIDE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE$75,000
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, $437k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CIA SIAB INC: $75k → 12%FAITH IN INDIANA: $80k → 16%WISCONSIN RCN EDUCATION: $75k → 12%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%FAITH IN INDIANA: $20k → 16%WISCONSIN RCN EDUCATION: $15k → 12%FAITH IN INDIANA: $12k → 16%FUND MI FUTURE: $20k → 19%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $15k → 14%HMONG AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION INC: $75k → 17%MILWAUKEE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 17%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

VT
WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
AZ
NM
TN
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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
36

Total granted

$1.1M
$870k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+2%

Still filing today

90%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentPublic BenefitHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • I
    ISAIAH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $370k · revenue +57%
  • WA
    WE ARE DOWN HOME
    2× · 2022–2024 · $259k · revenue +213%
  • SP
    STATE POWER FUND
    2× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • HI
    HOUSTON IN ACTION
    one grant, 2023 · $85k · revenue -71%
  • FM
    FUND MI FUTURE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • KR
    Keystone Research Center Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -37%
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
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
2
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
3
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
4
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
5
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.

—
6
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
7
Alabama Values

A nonpartisan grassroots communication organization that works to raise awareness and increase engagement around community issues in alabama by working directly with civic organizations advocating civic participation in communities across…

Arts & Culture
8
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
9
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
10
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
11
Democracy Works Inc

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

Civil Rights
12
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is River Valley Organizing. 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

94 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. 94 of the 98 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/94
Grantees still filing
32/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Missouri Rural Crisis Center: $300,000 · OtherMissouri Rural Crisis CenterTHE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION: $280,000 · OtherTHE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATIONSouthside Organizing Committee Inc: $75,000 · OtherWISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC: $75,000 · OtherPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $70,000 · OtherWISCONSIN DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN INC: $100,000 · OtherWISCONSIN DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN INC+36 more: $950,000 · Other+36 moreFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $109,200 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGE…CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERE…LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WISCONSIN INC: $90,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOT…ONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED: $70,000 · Civil RightsONE PENNSYLVANIA AC…INSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA: $50,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR A PRO…Fair Elections Center: $50,000 · Civil RightsFair Elections Cent…STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $46,533 · Civil RightsAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $40,000 · Civil RightsCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $30,000 · Civil RightsNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Association: $30,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $30,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · Civil Rights+13 more: $223,800 · Civil Rights+13 moreWE ARE DOWN HOME: $259,000 · EducationWE ARE DOWN HOM…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $175,000 · EducationPresident and F…Forward Together Wisconsin: $100,000 · EducationForward Togethe…WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS INC: $70,000 · EducationWISCONSIN ALLIA…We the People MI: $40,000 · EducationWe the People M…+4 more: $65,000 · Education+4 moreISAIAH: $370,000 · ReligionISAIAHPASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $115,000 · ReligionPASTORS UN…WISCONSIN FAITH VOICES FOR JUSTICE: $20,000 · ReligionGROWW EDUCATION INC: $300,000 · Public BenefitGROWW EDUC…KENTUCKY COALITION INC: $75,000 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY C…CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 · Public BenefitOHIO VOICE: $22,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $20,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $20,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitFaith in Indiana: $112,000 · Human ServicesFaith in …STATE POWER FUND: $110,000 · Human ServicesSTATE POW…Hmong American Womens Association Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesHmong Ame…CIA SIAB INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesCIA SIAB …TIDES CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CEN…MILWAUKEE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $15,000 · Human ServicesWISDOM INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyHOUSTON IN ACTION: $85,000 · PhilanthropyRISE EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,850,000Civil Rights$899,533Education$709,000Religion$505,000Public Benefit$472,000Human Services$437,000Philanthropy$405,000

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 budgetISAIAH: $370,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMissouri Rural Crisis Center: $300,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetGROWW EDUCATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION: $280,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME: $259,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISDOM INC: $125,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $115,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetFaith in Indiana: $112,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND: $110,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $109,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetForward Together Wisconsin: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WISCONSIN INC: $90,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHmong American Womens Association Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSouthside Organizing Committee Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCIA SIAB INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $70,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS INC: $70,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED: $70,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEXPO of Wisconsin Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetMICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTRUE SKOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budget9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFair Elections Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON GROUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $46,533 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWe the People MI: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $40,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $37,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDeeds Not Words: $30,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Association: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSol Nation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNC BUDGET & TAX CENTER: $28,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

New Venture FundNEO Philanthropy IncTides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Windward FundState VoicesUnited States Energy …All Hands on Deck Net…Hopewell FundWisconsin Voices IncWorking Families Orga…Proteus Fund Inc
New Venture FundDC75.4× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · State Voices · United States Energy Foundation · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Hopewell Fund · Wisconsin Voices Inc · Working Families Organization Inc · Proteus Fund Inc

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 State Power Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from State Power Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to State Power Fund?

Find your warmest path to State Power Fund 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 98 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home