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· Public charity

Strategic Victory Fund

Promote social welfare within various states.

$33M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$3.7M
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Benefit$94MCivil Rights$37MHealth$15MCommunity Improvement$3.1MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$1.2MPhilanthropy$397kInternational$369kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $26,001,468, the rows itemized in this filing. The $32,658,968 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,657,500 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+17 grants · $24M
$250,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER$3,712,500
PROGRESS NOW$3,396,000
TOGETHER WISCONSIN ACTS$2,714,000
PA ALLIANCE ACTION$2,248,000
MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION$2,070,000
MAKE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST$1,965,000
PROGRESS NC ACTION$1,155,000
PROJECT 72 WI INC$1,064,900
RALLY NC$1,005,000
PROGRESS MICHIGAN$970,000
PROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA$940,000
WIN MINNESOTA$900,000
THE WISCO PROJECT INC$792,000
CONGRESSIONAL INTEGRITY PROJECT$450,000
BATTLE BORN PROGRESS$385,500
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 (FY21–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES: $350k → 9%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND INC: $442k → 14%MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES: $50k → 9%TOGETHER WISCONSIN: $517k → 17%TOGETHER WISCONSIN: $189k → 17%TOGETHER WISCONSIN: $585k → 17%TOGETHER WISCOSIN INC: $450k → 17%TOGETHER WISCONSIN: $50k → 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

NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$112M · 34 repeat orgs$41M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
67

Total granted

$112M
$39M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

97%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • PN
    PROGRESS NOW INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $15M · revenue +185% · 80% of their budget
  • TW
    TOGETHER WISCONSIN ACTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13M · revenue +511% · 34% of their budget
  • AB
    A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12M · revenue +62% · 61% of their budget

Funded once

  • SV
    STATE VICTORY ACTION
    one grant, 2022 · $4.0M
  • SV
    STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND IE PAC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $3.5M
  • SV
    STATE VICTORY ACTION
    one grant, 2022 · $3.0M
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
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
2
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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3
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights
4
Tennessee Progress

Tennessee progress works to uplift the values and voices of the progressive movement across tennessee by elevating the issues that matter most to our communities. tennessee progress is a digital and communications hub for the progressive…

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5
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
6
A Public Voice Inc

The organization's mission is to promote the common good and general welfare by supporting direct democracy efforts, which give the public a direct voice in the operation of state and local government through the approval or defeat of…

Public Benefit
7
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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8
National Popular Vote

To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States

Public Benefit
9
American Policy Coalition

With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.

Public Benefit
10
Progressnow Colorado

To promote citizen engagement in the formation of public policy

Education
11
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
12
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Colorado Civic Education. 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

92 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. 92 of the 112 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.

25
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/92
Grantees still filing
46/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROGRESS NOW INC: $14,926,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESS NOW INCA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $12,391,984 · Civil RightsA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INCPA ALLIANCE ACTION: $11,188,258 · Civil RightsPA ALLIANCE ACTIONMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $6,705,500 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND+25 more: $11,628,584 · Civil Rights+25 moreMake North Carolina First: $5,305,000 · OtherMake North Carolina FirstSTATE VICTORY ACTION: $5,100,000 · OtherSTATE VICTORY ACTIONSTATE VICTORY ACTION: $4,000,000 · OtherSTATE VICTORY ACTIONPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION: $3,699,199 · OtherPROGRESS NOW EDUCATIONSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND IE PAC: $3,500,000 · OtherSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND IE PACCOMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS: $3,106,455 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONSSTATE VICTORY ACTION: $3,000,000 · OtherMILLIONS OF MICHIGANIANS: $2,857,459 · OtherMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $2,400,000 · OtherARIZONA FOR ABORTION ACCESS: $2,000,000 · Other+51 more: $21,899,020 · Other+51 moreProgress Michigan Inc: $6,313,967 · Public BenefitProgress Michi…PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA ACTION: $5,759,650 · Public BenefitPROGRESS NORTH…WIN MINNESOTA: $5,017,500 · Public BenefitWIN MINNESOTA+6 more: $2,007,573 · Public Benefit+6 moreTOGETHER WISCONSIN ACTS INC: $12,839,000 · HealthTOGETHER …+1 more: $75,000 · HealthBATTLE BORN PROGRESS: $1,394,671 · Community ImprovementAlliance for a Better Minnesota: $1,292,527 · Community ImprovementA BETTER BIG SKY: $750,000 · Community ImprovementPROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA: $634,850 · Community ImprovementAmerica Votes: $150,000 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER WISCONSIN INC: $1,790,618 · Human ServicesGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $442,000 · Human ServicesMIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC: $399,500 · Human ServicesJUSTICE FOR NC: $600,000 · EducationFLORIDA WATCH INC: $220,000 · EducationInnovation Ohio Education Fund: $48,300 · Education
Civil Rights$56,840,326Other$56,867,133Public Benefit$19,098,690Health$12,914,000Community Improvement$4,222,048Human Services$2,632,118Education$868,300

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 budgetPROGRESS NOW INC: $14,926,000 over 4y, 80% of budgetTOGETHER WISCONSIN ACTS INC: $12,839,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC: $12,391,984 over 6y, 61% of budgetPA ALLIANCE ACTION: $11,188,258 over 5y, 72% of budgetMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $6,705,500 over 6y, 82% of budgetProgress Michigan Inc: $6,313,967 over 5y, 63% of budgetPROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA ACTION: $5,759,650 over 5y, 41% of budgetMake North Carolina First: $5,305,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetWIN MINNESOTA: $5,017,500 over 5y, 79% of budgetPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION: $3,699,199 over 5y, 45% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS: $3,106,455 over 6y, 41% of budgetTOGETHER WISCONSIN INC: $1,790,618 over 2y, 71% of budgetRally NC: $1,725,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $1,700,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetPROGRESS ARIZONA: $1,650,768 over 5y, 42% of budgetBATTLE BORN PROGRESS: $1,394,671 over 4y, 55% of budgetAlliance for a Better Minnesota: $1,292,527 over 4y, 47% of budgetPROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA: $1,190,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPA Alliance Foundation: $1,110,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNEVADA ALLIANCE: $1,110,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FLORIDA INC: $1,100,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetMICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND: $1,100,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetWISCO PROJECT INC: $1,042,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetA BETTER BIG SKY: $750,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetAMERICA'S VOICE: $687,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetPROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA: $634,850 over 2y, 12% of budgetProgress Georgia Inc: $619,500 over 2y, 25% of budgetJUSTICE FOR NC: $600,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPROTECT OUR FAMILIES INC: $525,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetProject Keystone: $520,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INSTITUTE INC: $472,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $442,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetProgress Michigan Education Inc: $408,978 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetAlliance for a Better Minneota Education Fund: $401,595 over 3y, 21% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $400,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF MI: $400,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetMIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC: $399,500 over 2y, 28% of budgetAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $372,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetPROGRESS NOW ARIZONA INSTITUTE: $368,900 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFORWARD ACTION FUND: $336,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $300,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetInnovation Ohio: $282,200 over 1y, 17% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE ENGAGEMENT FUND: $250,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative: $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $222,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA WATCH INC: $220,000 over 1y, 21% 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.

  • Who funds PROGRESS NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER WISCONSIN ACTS INC ↗
  • Who funds A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds PA ALLIANCE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Progress Michigan Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Make North Carolina First ↗
  • Who funds WIN MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESS NOW EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds Rally NC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESS ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds BATTLE BORN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for a Better Minnesota ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds PA Alliance Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT 72 WI INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds A BETTER BIG SKY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S VOICE ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA ↗

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 FundAmerica VotesNorth FundState Engagement FundHopewell FundOpen Society Action F…Tides AdvocacyTides FoundationWay to Win Action Fun…American Federation o…State Leadership Proj…National Education As…
Sixteen Thirty FundDC96× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · North Fund · State Engagement Fund · Hopewell Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · State Leadership Project · National Education Association of the United States

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 Strategic Victory Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Strategic Victory 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Strategic Victory Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Strategic Victory 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 112 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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