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Willow Creek Action

Identify and fund organizations whose work supports american democracy.

$800k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
12
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$250,000
States reached, FY2023
5
Total assets, FY2023
$309k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vote Rev Action Fund$250,000112%
Voteamerica$150,000111%
Nextgen Climate America Inc$60,00011%
Indivisible Action$50,0001n/a
Center for Common Ground$50,00012%
Run for Something PAC$50,0001n/a
Good Faith Network Inc$50,00014%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$25,00010%
Collective Impact Action$23,000119%
Progressive Chg Camp Comm Non Fed$15,0001n/a
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All grantees of Willow Creek Action by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vote Rev Action Fund$250,000112%
Voteamerica$150,000111%
Nextgen Climate America Inc$60,00011%
Indivisible Action$50,0001n/a
Center for Common Ground$50,00012%
Run for Something PAC$50,0001n/a
Good Faith Network Inc$50,00014%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$25,00010%
Collective Impact Action$23,000119%
Progressive Chg Camp Comm Non Fed$15,0001n/a
Tides Advocacy$10,00010%
The One America Movement$10,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Willow Creek Action supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVote Rev Action Fund: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetVoteamerica: $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNextgen Climate America Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCenter for Common Ground: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGood Faith Network Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollective Impact Action: $23,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTides Advocacy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe One America Movement: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Tides FoundationCA12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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.

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How do I get to Willow Creek Action?

Find your warmest path to Willow Creek Action 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.

About Willow Creek Action

How much does Willow Creek Action give?
Willow Creek Action reported 13 grants totaling $800,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Willow Creek Action fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (68%), Civil Rights (10%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Willow Creek Action's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Vote Rev Action Fund ($250k), Voteamerica ($150k), Nextgen Climate America Inc ($60k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Willow Creek Action?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Willow Creek Action based?
Willow Creek Action is based in DC.

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 13 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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