California · Public charity
The Heising-Simons Action Fund
The action fund engages primarily in legislative and other public policy activities, including but not limited to making contributions to ballot measure campaigns and to other policy and legislative advocacy efforts, to promote the common good and general welfare of the general public in california and elsewhere. It is focused on a…
- $16M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2024
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $645,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 67
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Heising-Simons Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 62 | $15M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $16M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $15M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $21M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $7.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working Families Organization Inc | $4,120,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Tides Advocacy | $3,770,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Environmental Defense Action Fund | $3,100,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Center for Community Change Action | $2,950,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Fund for a Better Future Inc | $2,800,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Energy Action Fund | $2,315,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Children's Funding Accelerator Inc | $2,100,000 | 5 | 50% |
| The Partnership Project Action Fund | $2,025,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Center for American Progress Action Fund | $1,950,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Nrdc Action Fund Inc | $1,850,000 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 108 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
The Heising-Simons Action Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 33 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Advocacy · Open Society Action Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · America Votes · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · Center for Community Change Action · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · League of Conservation Voters Inc
How this is measured
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About The Heising-Simons Action Fund
- How much does The Heising-Simons Action Fund give?
- The Heising-Simons Action Fund reported 73 grants totaling $16,200,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 67 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Heising-Simons Action Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Civil Rights (29%), Public Benefit (16%).
- Who are The Heising-Simons Action Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Working Families Organization Inc ($4.1M), Tides Advocacy ($3.8M), Environmental Defense Action Fund ($3.1M).
- Does The Heising-Simons Action Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Heising-Simons Action Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Advocacy, Open Society Action Fund Inc.
- Where is The Heising-Simons Action Fund based?
- The Heising-Simons Action Fund is based in CA.
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