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The Atlantic Advocacy Fund Inc

To promote Social Welfare.

$12M
Granted FY2020
12
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $11,665,496 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,135,496 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $470,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $500k
  • $250k+7 grants · $11M
$300,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Civic Participation Action Fund$4,000,000
George Washington Health Workforce Institute$3,500,000
Echoing Green Foundation$1,500,000
Cornell University - Office of the Provost$1,000,000
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy$500,000
Bend the Arc A Jewish Partnership for Justice$300,000
Care in Action$300,000
Brave New Films Action Fund$200,000
Inequality Media Civic Action$200,000
Future Now Fund$100,000
Pennsylvania Progress$40,496
Tesseract$25,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Inequality Media Civic Action: $200k → 10%Brave New Films Action Fund: $200k → 14%Cornell University - Office of the Provost: $1.0M → 16%Care in Action: $300k → 17%George Washington Health Workforce Institute: $3.5M → 14%Bend the Arc A Jewish Partnership for Justice: $300k → 17%American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: $500k → 14%Echoing Green Foundation: $1.5M → 17%Future Now Fund: $100k → 14%Civic Participation Action Fund: $4.0M → 14%Tesseract: $25k → 14%Pennsylvania Progress: $40k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
2
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
3
American Arbitration Association Inc

The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.

Crime & Legal
4
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
8
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
9
The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

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10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
12
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inequality Media Civic Action and the most unlike its peers is Pennsylvania Progress. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The George Washington University — $3,500,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityECHOING GREEN INC — $1,500,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INCCornell University — $1,000,000 · EducationCornell UniversityAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $500,000 · EducationAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICYCivic Participation Action Fund — $4,000,000 · OtherCivic Participation Action FundBrave New Films Action Fund — $200,000 · Other+2 more — $140,496 · OtherCare in Action Inc — $300,000 · Civil RightsINEQUALITY MEDIA CIVIC ACTION — $200,000 · Civil RightsTESSERACT INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $300,000 · Philanthropy
Education$6,500,000Other$4,340,496Civil Rights$525,000Philanthropy$300,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe George Washington University — $3,500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $1,500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCornell University — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $500,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCare in Action Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $300,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetINEQUALITY MEDIA CIVIC ACTION — $200,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PROGRESS — $40,496 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetTESSERACT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Atlantic Advocacy Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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