How much did WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC grant in FY2024?

WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC reported 99 grants totaling $17,624,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC based?

WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC is based in DC.

WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC

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· Public charity

WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC

The primary purpose of way to win action fund is to promote social welfare, particularly as it relates to creating, implementing and supporting public policies that advance racial and economic justice in the united states, such activities will command more than 50 of the organizations time and more than 50 of its financial resources.

$18M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.2M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

digital contentequalitynowstate-basedgainsamericans wantchallenge

2022

civic educationreentryglahrregistration civicengagement issuesissues policyexpand

2023

investedseeprotect expandexpand accessaccess sexualsexual reproductivereproductive healthcare

2024

democracy workersworkers rightsinformimportanceadvocacy campaignsveterans militarysouth

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k8 grants · $130k
$50k–250k64 grants · $6.3M
$250k+27 grants · $11M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

WORKING FAMILIES POWER$1,165,000
TEAMSTERS DEFENDING DEMOCRACY & WORKERS RIGHTS$850,000
LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA$660,000
MAKE THE ROAD ACTION (NEVADA)$650,000
WORKER POWER$575,000
MORE PERFECT UNION ACTION$500,000
INDIVISIBLE PROJECT$500,000
CAROLINA FEDERATION FREEDOM PAC$440,000
PROGRESS ARIZONA$400,000
PEOPLE'S ACTION POWER$400,000
NEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND$400,000
DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA$355,000
OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA$350,000
NCAAT IN ACTION$350,000
COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION$350,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$73M · 97 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +252% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.

97 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101

Total granted

$73M

$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+252%

+60%

Still filing today

91%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther

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

WF
WORKING FAMILIES POWER
5× · 2020–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +621%
TA
TIDES ADVOCACY GREEN NEW DEAL NETWORK ACTION
5× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +130%
BV
BLACK VOTERS MATTER FUND INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +86% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

NM
NEW MEDIA VENTURES
one grant, 2023 · $680k · 62% of their budget
AA
ADRC ACTIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +60%
IS
INDEPENDENT SIDE RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE
one grant, 2021 · $500k

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

04Your field

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.

Democracy for America Advocacy Fund

Democracy for America Advocacy Fund (DFA-AF) is a 501(c)(4) organization that advocates for fair, just, inclusive, and equitable public policies that benefit all, not just a few. DFA-AF was launched to take on structural democracy reform…

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Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture

Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights

United for a Fair Economy Inc

United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power by using popular economics education, trainings and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy.

Social Science

Democracy Works Inc

Improving civic participation by simplifying and modernizing the voting process for voters and election administrators.

Civil Rights

Vote Org

Vote.org's primary purpose is to build web-based technologies that remove barriers to vote and increase voter turnout.

Civil Rights

Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal

Coalition for Dc Representation in

Founded in 1998, dc vote is a national citizen engagement and advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening democracy and securing equality for all in the district of columbia.

Education

Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement

Colorado Democracy Alliance

The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.

Civil Rights

Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class.

Civil Rights

Youth Activism Project

The Youth Activism Project teaches teens movement-building skills to make policy impact at all levels of government. We envision a world in which youth activism is the norm, not the exception. We know that even though many young people are…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Tides Foundation. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 8 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) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%6/236

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,329

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.

05the grantee network

207 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

202/207

Grantees still filing

148/207

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$42,554,307Civil Rights$28,031,632Public Benefit$7,865,000Human Services$6,520,000Community Improvement$5,126,000Education$1,575,000Environment$1,332,000

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.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC195.1× affinity122 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Women Donors Network Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund · State Engagement Fund · North Fund · Grove Action Fund · Center for Community Change Action · Organize Action

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 organisation WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BORICUA VOTA INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 812639254 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BORICUA VOTA INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Way to Win Action Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Way to Win Action Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

207 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Way to Win Action Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

207 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Way to Win Action Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph