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The Pipeline Fund
The Pipeline Fund is working toward a reflective democracy where skilled, diverse, community leaders are fully supported to run for office, run campaigns, and advance progressive policies that address the urgent needs of all Americans.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $343k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLPALEAD | $342,550 |
| Instituto Power | $208,800 |
| LEAD Ohio | $208,800 |
| Represent Georgia Action Network | $208,800 |
| LEAD NC | $158,800 |
| Wisconsin Progress | $158,800 |
| Democracy Security Project Action F | $150,000 |
| LEAD PA | $134,050 |
| Florida Pipeline Project | $58,800 |
| We the People for Education | $50,000 |
| Progressive Pipeline | $36,000 |
| 603 Forward | $8,800 |
| One America Votes | $8,800 |
| Annies List Training and Engagemen | $8,800 |
| LEADMO Action | $8,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
Leadership training and comprehensive professional development programs for community activists, advocates, and prospective leaders of nonprofits and other issue advocacy organizations across the
Running Start is a nonpartisan nonprofit that trains young women to run for political office. Running Starts programs empower participants with the confidence capabilities connections and civic discourse skills they need to run win and…
GLPA-LEAD Education Fund is a social welfare and educational organization with a mission to educate future leaders in the state on civic engagement and professional development. The organization works to empower ordinary citizens through…
To ensure that working class people are educated on their voting rights. The coalition engages in mobilization and educational information sessions to ensure that all workers voices are heard.
Lead NC institute is a non-partisan organization that seeks, encourages and cultivates a new generation of community and civic leaders for North Carolina through information dissemination, training and leadership development.
The Pipeline Fund is working toward a reflective democracy where skilled, diverse, community leaders are fully supported to run for office, run campaigns, and advance progressive policies that address the urgent needs of all Americans.
Voter education around policy
Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions
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…
Blueprint campaigns provides professional development support for emerging leaders from traditionally underrepresented communities: from campaign managers and vounteer coordinators, to current and prospective candidates, newly engaged…
Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay
The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadmo Action and the most unlike its peers is Instituto Power. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GLPA-LEAD ↗
- Who funds Represent Georgia Action Network Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAD OHIO ↗
- Who funds Instituto Power ↗
- Who funds Lead NC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY SECURITY PROJECT ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds Lead PA ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ADVANCEMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WE THE PEOPLE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Progressive Pipeline ↗
- Who funds 603 FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Annie's List Training and Engagement Fund ↗
- Who funds ONEAMERICA VOTES ↗
- Who funds LEADMO ACTION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Pipeline Fund 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.
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Pipeline 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.