· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $1,239,706 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,634,203 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,394,497 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $949k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIHUAPACTLI COLLECTIVE | $140,000 |
| FANM SAJ INC | $140,000 |
| EJERIE LABS | $110,000 |
| WILDSEED SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) | $100,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $100,000 |
| WOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL | $99,906 |
| SLOW FACTORY | $58,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $51,400 |
| HEKLER | $50,000 |
| EXPERIMENTAL FARM NETWORK | $25,000 |
| O'AHU WATER PROTECTORS MUTUAL AID KA LAHUI | $25,000 |
| MOVEMENT TO STOP COP CITY | $21,900 |
| GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| FEMSWANA | $15,500 |
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.
Your 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 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
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.
Stated purpose: OPPORTUNITY · SECURITY · FEMINIST RIGHTS
Stated purpose: OPPORTUNITY · SECURITY · FEMINIST RIGHTS
Stated purpose: SECURITY · OPPORTUNITY · FEMINIST RIGHTS
Stated purpose: OPPORTUNITY · SECURITY
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. 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FSFANM SAJ INC2× · 2023–2024 · $147k · revenue +140% · 36% of their budget
- CCCihuapactli Collective2× · 2022–2024 · $146k · revenue +14%
- WEWOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL2× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- WIWHYHUNGER INCone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -9%
- HGHEALTHY GULFgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +46%
- ORONE RESILIENT EARTH INCone grant, 2023 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.
Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.
LexCollective is a not-for-profit organization that addresses the most extreme forms of social, racial, economic, and environmental injustices around the world, such as mass atrocities, human trafficking, environmental destruction, and…
We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.
The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
101 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. 101 of the 130 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FANM SAJ INC ↗
- Who funds Cihuapactli Collective ↗
- Who funds WOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY STUDY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM NETWORK COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds Transformations Youth Group ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PEACE AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL AID LAHUI ↗
- Who funds POWER SHIFT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AUTISTIC WOMEN AND NONBINARY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Best Practices Policy Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY GULF ↗
- Who funds The Partnership Project ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOICES PROJECT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Survivors Union ↗
- Who funds Mekong Inc ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds LOWLANDER CENTER ↗
- Who funds FEMENA USA NON PROFIT ↗
- Who funds CULTUREWORKS GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom ↗
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.
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
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 Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism 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.
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
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.