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UltraViolet Action

UltraViolet Action (uva) is a 501c4 organization. UltraViolet Action is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. Ultraviolet drives feminist cultural and political change by exposing the white supremacist patriarchy and creating the…

$158k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
5

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations UltraViolet Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21
HealthCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$158k100%
FY20212$86k100%
FY20202$40k100%
FY20191$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$175kArts & Culture$100kHealth$95kRecreation & Sports$8kEmployment$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
UltraViolet Education Fund$100,00013%
UltraViolet PAC$100,0001n/a
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$80,00010%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence$25,00010%
Womens March Inc$25,00011%
National Women's Law Center$15,00010%
Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc$15,00010%
Care in Action Inc$10,00010%
Leslie Mac LLC$7,5001n/a
One Fair Wage Inc$6,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget UltraViolet Action supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUltraViolet Education Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGiffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWomens March Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNational Women's Law Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Action Fund Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare in Action Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOne Fair Wage Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 8.

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How do I get to UltraViolet Action?

Find your warmest path to UltraViolet Action 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 UltraViolet Action

How much does UltraViolet Action give?
UltraViolet Action reported 5 grants totaling $157,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does UltraViolet Action fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (46%), Arts & Culture (26%), Health (25%).
Who are UltraViolet Action's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: UltraViolet Education Fund ($100k), UltraViolet PAC ($100k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($80k).
Does UltraViolet Action fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is UltraViolet Action based?
UltraViolet Action is based in DC.

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 10 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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