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Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism

Uaf is a global women's fund that protects, strengthens and sustains women's human rights activists at critical moments.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$589kEnvironment$395kArts & Culture$325kHuman Services$277kPublic Safety & Disaster$189kEducation$154kScience & Tech$118kInternational$103kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $1,239,706, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,634,203 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,394,497 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $168k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $949k
$8,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FANM SAJ INC$140,000
CIHUAPACTLI COLLECTIVE$140,000
EJERIE LABS$110,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$100,000
WILDSEED SOCIETY$100,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE)$100,000
WOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL$99,906
SLOW FACTORY$58,000
TIDES CENTER$51,400
HEKLER$50,000
O'AHU WATER PROTECTORS MUTUAL AID KA LAHUI$25,000
EXPERIMENTAL FARM NETWORK$25,000
MOVEMENT TO STOP COP CITY$21,900
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL$20,000
FEMSWANA$15,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $8k → 18%Mekong Inc: $8k → 28%SAN MIGUEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 21%SWOP BEHIND BARS INC: $6k → 13%TAKE RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 14%I AM HUMAN FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%MEKONG NYC: $8k → 24%Warriors on Wheels Met Dtroit: $6k → 21%STARR (STRATEGIC TRANS ALLIANCE FOR RADICAL REFORM): $6k → 16%HEART WOMEN & GIRLS: $6k → 14%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $8k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $4.5M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $4.0M to organizations and $465k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$3.3M · 74% · 149 grants · 40 people

Stated purpose: OPPORTUNITY · SECURITY · FEMINIST RIGHTS

Middle East and North Africa$583k · 13% · 42 grants · 12 people

Stated purpose: OPPORTUNITY · SECURITY · FEMINIST RIGHTS

Russia and Neighboring States$578k · 13% · 47 grants · 12 people

Stated purpose: SECURITY · OPPORTUNITY · FEMINIST RIGHTS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$13k · 0% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: OPPORTUNITY · SECURITY

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 28 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
74

Total granted

$1.2M
$691k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+19%

Still filing today

89%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FS
    FANM SAJ INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $147k · revenue +140% · 36% of their budget
  • CC
    Cihuapactli Collective
    2× · 2022–2024 · $146k · revenue +14%
  • WE
    WOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +230%

Funded once

  • WI
    WHYHUNGER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -9%
  • TP
    The Partnership Project
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -41%
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -15%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

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The Conversationalist
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2
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
3
Women's Link Worldwide

A legal organization working to advance the rights of women, girls, and gender diverse people. We work on issues of reproductive rights, gender-based violence, climate, and racial justice in East Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the…

Civil Rights
4
Women in Migration Network Inc

Women in Migration Network (WIMN), an international non-governmental organization, identifies and promotes human rights-based and feminist global migration policies. We lift up and support the experiences, voices and agency of all women in…

Civil Rights
5
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
6
Gender Equality Network Usa Inc

Global Network Building for Gender Equality and Women's Rights Activists: Fostering exchange, collaboration, and mutual support for joint efforts in capacity building and technical assistance, while deepening the understanding of gender…

Civil Rights
7
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

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8
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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9
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
10
Equality Now Inc

To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.

International
11
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
12
Daria Services

Empower reproductive justice movement

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum; the most unlike its peers is Roshaniya. 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

101 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. 101 of the 130 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/101
Grantees still filing
61/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EJERIE LABS: $110,000 · OtherEJERIE LABSWILDSEED SOCIETY: $100,000 · OtherWILDSEED SOCIETYHEKLER: $50,000 · OtherLAKOTA WELLNESS SOCIETY INC: $36,000 · OtherTIDES CENTER: $51,400 · OtherTransformations Youth Group: $63,000 · OtherTransformations Youth Group+58 more: $591,561 · Other+58 moreFANM SAJ INC: $147,000 · Arts & CultureFANM SAJ INCCihuapactli Collective: $146,000 · Arts & CultureCihuapactli CollectiveLIBRARY STUDY HALL INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureLIBRARY STUDY HALL INCWHYHUNGER INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INCALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $109,635 · Arts & Culture+13 moreWOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL: $107,906 · Civil RightsWOMEN ENABLED …Transgender Law Center: $60,000 · Civil RightsTransgender La…Best Practices Policy Project Inc: $26,775 · Civil RightsBest Practices…The Partnership Project: $20,000 · Civil RightsThe Partnershi…FEMENA USA NON PROFIT: $15,500 · Civil RightsRoshaniya: $13,500 · Civil Rights+12 more: $82,840 · Civil Rights+12 moreSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $106,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND …THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM NETWORK COOPERATIVE: $75,000 · EnvironmentTHE EXPERIM…Earth Island Institute Inc: $24,000 · EnvironmentEarth Islan…HEALTHY GULF: $20,000 · EnvironmentHEALTHY GUL…LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $16,000 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA B…UNKITAWA: $14,000 · Environment+2 more: $16,000 · Environment+2 moreSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $160,600 · EducationEVERYBLACKGIRL INC: $8,000 · EducationUNITING RESILIENCE: $8,000 · Education+1 more: $6,000 · EducationHAWAII PEACE AND JUSTICE: $58,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $16,000 · Community ImprovementLOWLANDER CENTER: $16,000 · Community ImprovementCULTUREWORKS GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 · Community ImprovementStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $14,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DESCENDANTS PROJECT: $8,000 · Community ImprovementWorcester Youth Cooperatives Inc: $8,000 · Community ImprovementOHIO FAMILIES UNITE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY: $7,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $6,000 · Community ImprovementPeace Development Fund: $45,000 · InternationalGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalTHE VOICES PROJECT USA INC: $16,000 · InternationalCenter for Third World Organizing: $12,000 · InternationalAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $8,000 · InternationalGLOBAL EXCHANGE: $8,000 · InternationalNational Iranian American Council: $8,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING: $6,300 · InternationalMigrant Workers Action: $6,000 · International
Other$1,001,961Arts & Culture$582,635Civil Rights$326,521Environment$271,000Education$182,600Community Improvement$148,000International$129,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $160,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFANM SAJ INC: $147,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetCihuapactli Collective: $146,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetWOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL: $107,906 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $106,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIBRARY STUDY HALL INC: $90,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTHE EXPERIMENTAL FARM NETWORK COOPERATIVE: $75,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $70,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTransformations Youth Group: $63,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII PEACE AND JUSTICE: $58,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $51,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMUTUAL AID LAHUI: $32,500 over 2y, 33% of budgetPOWER SHIFT NETWORK: $28,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAUTISTIC WOMEN AND NONBINARY NETWORK: $27,950 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBest Practices Policy Project Inc: $26,775 over 2y, 12% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Partnership Project: $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHY GULF: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Survivors Union: $16,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMekong Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOWLANDER CENTER: $16,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE VOICES PROJECT USA INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFEMENA USA NON PROFIT: $15,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCULTUREWORKS GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANCERS GROUP: $14,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetZAMI NOBLA INC: $14,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetUNKITAWA: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $14,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLa Pea Cultural Center Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL EXCHANGE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARE ABOUT CLIMATE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Proteus Fund IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Borealis PhilanthropyGroundswell FundRockefeller Philanthr…Tides FoundationCommon Counsel Founda…Ms Foundation for Wom…NEO Philanthropy IncImpactassetsincSolidaire Network IncNew Venture Fund
Proteus Fund IncMA63.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Proteus Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Groundswell Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Impactassetsinc · Solidaire Network Inc · New Venture Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 130 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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