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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$134,050
Largest grant, FY2024
$342,550
States reached, FY2024
15
Total assets, FY2024
$2.9M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
WI
MI
OH
PA
CA
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Glpa-Lead$342,550163%
Represent Georgia Action Network Inc$208,800158%
Lead Ohio$208,800127%
Instituto Power$208,800113%
Lead NC$158,800143%
Wisconsin Progress Inc$158,800129%
Democracy Security Project Action Fund$150,000112%
Lead PA$134,050126%
Florida Advancement Project Inc$58,80011%
We the People for Education$50,00018%
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All grantees of The Pipeline Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Glpa-Lead$342,550163%
Represent Georgia Action Network Inc$208,800158%
Lead Ohio$208,800127%
Instituto Power$208,800113%
Lead NC$158,800143%
Wisconsin Progress Inc$158,800129%
Democracy Security Project Action Fund$150,000112%
Lead PA$134,050126%
Florida Advancement Project Inc$58,80011%
We the People for Education$50,00018%
Progressive Pipeline$36,0001n/a
603 Forward$8,80011%
Annie's List Training and Engagement Fund$8,80012%
Oneamerica Votes$8,80011%
Leadmo Action$8,80013%

Where it is load-bearing

The Pipeline Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGlpa-Lead: $342,550 over 1y, 63% of budgetRepresent Georgia Action Network Inc: $208,800 over 1y, 58% of budgetLead Ohio: $208,800 over 1y, 27% of budgetInstituto Power: $208,800 over 1y, 13% of budgetLead NC: $158,800 over 1y, 43% of budgetWisconsin Progress Inc: $158,800 over 1y, 29% of budgetDemocracy Security Project Action Fund: $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLead PA: $134,050 over 1y, 26% of budgetFlorida Advancement Project Inc: $58,800 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWe the People for Education: $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budget603 Forward: $8,800 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAnnie's List Training and Engagement Fund: $8,800 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOneamerica Votes: $8,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLeadmo Action: $8,800 over 1y, 3.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC34× affinity14 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · America Votes · Tides Advocacy

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Pipeline Fund?

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.

About The Pipeline Fund

How much does The Pipeline Fund give?
The Pipeline Fund reported 15 grants totaling $1,750,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Pipeline Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (84%), Education (12%), Environment (3%).
Who are The Pipeline Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Glpa-Lead ($343k), Represent Georgia Action Network Inc ($209k), Lead Ohio ($209k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Pipeline Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, All Hands on Deck Network Inc, America Votes.
Where is The Pipeline Fund based?
The Pipeline Fund is based in WI.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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