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The Atlantic Advocacy Fund Inc at a glance

· Public charity

The Atlantic Advocacy Fund Inc

To promote Social Welfare.

$12M
Granted FY2020
12
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $11,665,496, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,135,496 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $470,000 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 · 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
Care in Action$300,000
Bend the Arc A Jewish Partnership for Justice$300,000
Inequality Media Civic Action$200,000
Brave New Films Action Fund$200,000
Future Now Fund$100,000
Pennsylvania Progress$40,496
Tesseract$25,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.
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 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inequality Media Civic Action; 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 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Atlantic Advocacy Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Atlantic Advocacy Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    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
    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 12 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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