California · Public charity
The Impact Fund
Supports class action public interest litigation and awards grants in the areas of human and civil rights, elimination of unlawful discrimination, environmental justice and the relief of poverty. Provides technical support, advice/counseling, training & representation to public interest lawyers. The Impact Fund does not receive any…
- $736k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations The Impact Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $733k | 72% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $640k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $598k | 68% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $326k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $235k | 79% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $503k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $586k | 89% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $200k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Children's Trust | $160,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability | $115,965 | 5 | 1% |
| Connecticut Legal Rights Project Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Disability Rights Texas | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Legal Counsel Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Children's Rights Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| A Better Childhood Inc | $77,750 | 3 | 4% |
| Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc | $73,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Upper Seven Law | $65,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 125 grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($371k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Impact Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 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: Equal Justice Works · Borealis Philanthropy · The Skadden Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · New Venture Fund · National Health Law Program Inc · Immigrant Justice Corps Inc · The Ford Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Impact Fund?
Find your warmest path to The Impact 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.
About The Impact Fund
- How much does The Impact Fund give?
- The Impact Fund reported 25 grants totaling $735,691 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Impact Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (67%), Civil Rights (15%), Environment (9%).
- Who are The Impact Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Our Children's Trust ($160k), Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability ($116k), Connecticut Legal Rights Project Inc ($100k).
- Does The Impact Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Impact Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equal Justice Works, Borealis Philanthropy, The Skadden Foundation.
- Where is The Impact Fund based?
- The Impact Fund is based in CA.
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