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Vera Action Inc

Vera action is an independent, but aligned advocacy organization to the vera institute of justice, a 501(c)(3). Vera action harnesses the power of advocacy, lobbying, and political strategy to end mass incarceration, protect immigrants' rights, restore dignity to people behind bars, and build safe and thriving communities.

$198k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$32,945
Largest grant, FY2025
$93,750
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$3.0M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Civil Rights$211kPublic Benefit$35kCrime & Legal$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fwdus Inc$93,7501n/a
Netroots Nation (F/K/A Bloggerpowerorg)$51,00022%
America Votes$35,00020%
Forward Justice$32,9451n/a
American Civil Liberties Union Inc$32,94510%
The Sentencing Project$10,0001n/a

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About Vera Action Inc

How much does Vera Action Inc give?
Vera Action Inc reported 6 grants totaling $197,640 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Vera Action Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (82%), Public Benefit (14%), Crime & Legal (4%).
Who are Vera Action Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Fwdus Inc ($94k), Netroots Nation (F/K/A Bloggerpowerorg) ($51k), America Votes ($35k).
Where is Vera Action Inc based?
Vera Action Inc is based in NY.

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 6 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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