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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.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
99
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$48MPublic Benefit$26MCommunity Improvement$7.1MHuman Services$3.0MEnvironment$2.0MEmployment$1.8MArts & Culture$1.3MHealth$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k64 grants · $6.3M
  • $250k+27 grants · $11M
$100,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
INDIVISIBLE PROJECT$500,000
MORE PERFECT UNION ACTION$500,000
CAROLINA FEDERATION FREEDOM PAC$440,000
PEOPLE'S ACTION POWER$400,000
PROGRESS ARIZONA$400,000
NEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND$400,000
DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA$355,000
NCAAT IN ACTION$350,000
OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA$350,000
COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION$350,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT 68 EDUCATION FUND INC: $200k → 15%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $175k → 8%STATE POWER FUND: $150k → 12%CASA IN ACTION INC: $155k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $862k → 11%NCAAT IN ACTION: $350k → 8%CASA IN ACTION INC: $103k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA INC: $850k → 11%NCAAT IN ACTION: $165k → 8%DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA: $512k → 16%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $660k → 11%NCAAT IN ACTION: $110k → 8%DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA: $355k → 16%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $77k → 11%FORWARD TOGETHER ACTION: $25k → 10%JOLT ACTION: $10k → 10%NCAAT IN ACTION: $75k → 8%DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA: $102k → 16%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA (LUCHA): $50k → 11%NORTH STAR PROSPERITY: $125k → 14%GLAHR ACTION NETWORK: $412k → 14%VOCAL-NY ACTION FUND C4: $50k → 20%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

NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72M · 96 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
98

Total granted

$72M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+4%

Still filing today

93%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +57%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +4% · 27% of their budget
  • 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 · revenue -69% · 62% of their budget
  • IS
    INDEPENDENT STRATEGIC RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • AA
    ADRC ACTION
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -95%
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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Bold Impact

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

Arts & Culture
2
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
3
Right to Democracy Action

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in u.s. territories, including by promoting civic engagement among the territorial diaspora throughout the united states.

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4
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
5
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, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
6
One for Democracy Action Fund

One for democracy unlocks resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time.

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7
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
8
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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9
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
10
RepresentUs

RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…

Public Benefit
11
All Americans Vote

All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!

Civil Rights
12
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Action Fund; the most unlike its peers is Generator Collective. 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

208 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 208 of the 235 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
54
Early backer (in before they grew)
204/208
Grantees still filing
94/208
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES ADVOCACY: $2,848,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $2,628,500 · OtherBlack Voters Matter Fund IncORGANIZE FOR JUSTICE: $2,440,000 · OtherORGANIZE FOR JUSTICETEXAS FOR ALL: $2,275,000 · OtherTEXAS FOR ALLTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $1,887,000 · OtherNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $1,505,080 · OtherMORE PERFECT UNION ACTION: $1,400,000 · OtherTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK: $1,378,600 · Other+84 more: $24,593,127 · Other+84 moreWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $6,037,395 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INCMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $2,011,000 · Civil RightsMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INCFLORIDA RISING INC: $1,776,500 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INCCULTURAL ENGAGEMENT LABORATORY: $1,400,000 · Civil RightsFAITH IN MINNESOTA: $1,054,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESS ARIZONA: $950,000 · Civil RightsFORWARD ACTION FUND: $947,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA ACTION: $939,000 · Civil Rights+52 more: $13,032,737 · Civil Rights+52 moreCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $3,350,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FO…DEMAND PROGRESS ACTION INC: $850,000 · Public BenefitDEMAND PR…NEW MEDIA VENTURES: $680,000 · Public BenefitNEW MEDIA…Instituto Power: $615,000 · Public BenefitInstituto…NORTH FUND: $500,000 · Public BenefitNORTH FUN…UltraViolet Action: $485,000 · Public BenefitUltraViol…FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION: $300,000 · Public Benefit+9 more: $990,000 · Public Benefit+9 moreLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $2,499,000 · Human ServicesDOWN HOME NC: $969,000 · Human ServicesNCAAT IN ACTION: $885,000 · Human ServicesCASA IN ACTION INC: $820,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $412,000 · Human Services+6 more: $910,000 · Human ServicesActivate 48 Inc: $1,475,000 · Community ImprovementADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC: $726,000 · Community ImprovementMISSOURI WIN: $705,000 · Community ImprovementAnnie's List Training and Engagement Fund: $540,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION: $475,000 · Community ImprovementPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC: $310,000 · Community ImprovementWake Up & Vote: $300,000 · Community ImprovementAmerica Votes: $275,000 · Community ImprovementMIJENTE: $250,000 · Community ImprovementBATTLE BORN PROGRESS: $225,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $325,000 · Community ImprovementFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $510,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $325,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INC: $250,000 · EducationPROGRESSNOW COLORADO: $190,000 · EducationWE ARE DOWN HOME: $150,000 · EducationMOMENTUM COMMUNITY INC: $150,000 · EducationONE APIA NEVADA: $856,000 · InternationalFLIC VOTES INC: $400,000 · International
Other$40,955,307Civil Rights$28,147,632Public Benefit$7,770,000Human Services$6,495,000Community Improvement$5,606,000Education$1,575,000International$1,256,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $6,037,395 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $3,350,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $2,848,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $2,628,500 over 5y, 29% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $2,499,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetORGANIZE FOR JUSTICE: $2,440,000 over 4y, 73% of budgetTEXAS FOR ALL: $2,275,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC: $2,011,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $1,887,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $1,776,500 over 5y, 31% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $1,505,080 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetMORE PERFECT UNION ACTION: $1,400,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetCULTURAL ENGAGEMENT LABORATORY: $1,400,000 over 4y, 90% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK: $1,378,600 over 5y, 22% of budgetUNITE HERE ACTION FUND: $1,280,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetBGTX Engagement Fund: $1,102,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetFAITH IN MINNESOTA: $1,054,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetFIGHT CORPORATE MONOPOLIES: $1,050,000 over 4y, 73% of budgetMOVE TEXAS ACTION FUND: $1,024,525 over 4y, 13% of budgetDOWN HOME NC: $969,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetPROGRESS ARIZONA: $950,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetFORWARD ACTION FUND: $947,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA ACTION: $939,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetOUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA: $912,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetNCAAT IN ACTION: $885,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetONE APIA NEVADA: $856,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetAction Center on Race and the Economy: $850,000 over 4y, 90% of budgetDEMAND PROGRESS ACTION INC: $850,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD TEXAS VOTES: $838,102 over 2y, 49% of budgetCASA IN ACTION INC: $820,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC: $787,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $746,737 over 2y, 39% of budgetADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC: $726,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetMISSOURI WIN: $705,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetNEW MEDIA VENTURES: $680,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $675,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICANS FOR CONTRACEPTION: $650,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetInstituto Power: $615,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetStory Network Foundation: $600,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND: $600,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetCAROLINA FEDERATION: $580,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetINDIVISIBLE PROJECT: $550,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetAnnie's List Training and Engagement Fund: $540,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetPODER NC ACTION: $535,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetNATIVE VOTERS ALLIANCE NEVADA: $510,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $510,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetADRC ACTION: $500,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSTATE POWER ACTION FUND: $500,000 over 3y, 9.9% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundTides AdvocacyAll Hands on Deck Net…Open Society Action F…Women Donors Network …America VotesNEO Philanthropy Acti…Pro-Democracy CampaignState Engagement FundNorth FundClimate Equity Action…Grove Action Fund
Sixteen Thirty FundDC198.7× affinity129 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 · Women Donors Network Action · America Votes · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Pro-Democracy Campaign · State Engagement Fund · North Fund · Climate Equity Action Fund · Grove Action 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 Way to Win Action Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Way to Win Action Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%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
    15get no government money at all
    7report 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, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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

    Find your warmest path to Way to Win Action Fund Inc 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 235 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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