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UltraViolet Action

UltraViolet Action (uva) is a 501c4 organization.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UltraViolet PAC$100,000
Giffords Law Center to Preven$25,000
Womens March Inc$15,000
Care in Action$10,000
Leslie Mac LLC$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ONE FAIR WAGE: $6k → 8%Giffords Law Center to Preven: $25k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $80k → 17%WOMEN'S MARCH INC: $25k → 20%Leslie Mac LLC: $8k → 10%Womens March Inc: $15k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $15k → 17%Care in Action: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
2
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
3
Planned Parenthood Global Inc

To advance the planned parenthood mission internationally, including support for the provision and protection of sexual and reproductive health services and rights, and ensuring that all people have access to reproductive and sexual…

Health
4
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
5
National Partnership for Women & Families Action Fund

The action fund engages in legislative advocacy, voter education, grassroots organizing and other activities to promote fairness in the workplace, reproductive health and rights, access to quality, affordable health care and policies that…

Human Services
6
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…

Public Benefit
7
A Better Balance Inc

A Better Balance (ABB) is a legal advocacy organization using a range of legal strategies to promote equality and expand choices in the workplace for at all income levels so they may care for their families without sacrificing their…

Social Science
8
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
9
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
10
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
11
Plus Action Fund

Advocacy for Paid Family Leave for workers in the US

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12
Stichting Womens Initiatives for Gender Justice

Ending impunity for conflict related sexual violence

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Womens March Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UltraViolet PAC: $100,000 · OtherUltraViolet PACWomens March Inc: $25,000 · OtherWomens March IncNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTERLeslie Mac LLC: $7,500 · OtherUltraViolet Education Fund: $100,000 · Civil RightsUltraViolet Education FundGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $25,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLEN…Care in Action Inc: $10,000 · Civil RightsCare in Action IncONE FAIR WAGE INC: $6,000 · Civil RightsPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $80,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATIO…PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FU…
Other$147,500Civil Rights$141,000Health$95,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization UltraViolet Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from UltraViolet Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

    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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