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Women Donors Network Action
To channel collective power and resources in solidarity with movements to advance the organization's vision of creating a just and sustainable world where everyone can safely and freely determine their own futures.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k56 grants · $6.8M
- $250k+12 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND INC | $400,000 |
| ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC | $300,000 |
| ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA DBA ONE PA | $300,000 |
| CARE IN ACTION INC | $300,000 |
| OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA | $300,000 |
| RURAL ARIZONA ACTION | $300,000 |
| REPOWER | $300,000 |
| ONE APIA NEVADA | $300,000 |
| LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA | $300,000 |
| NCAAT IN ACTION | $300,000 |
| MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC | $300,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC | $250,000 |
| EQUALITY FEDERATION | $235,000 |
| PODER NC ACTION | $220,000 |
| BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC | $200,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 16 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- TATIDES ADVOCACY7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +130%
- CFCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +817%
- GIGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $930k · revenue +232%
Funded once
- PMProgress Michigan Incone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -27%
- CPCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ACTIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -80% · 28% of their budget
- AAACCELERATE ACTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +198%
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.
Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.
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…
Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.
The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.
New american leaders action fund (nalaf) is building a democracy that represents and includes all people by engaging new voters, supporting new americans as they run for office, and expanding civic engagement.
Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities
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…
We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…
Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in u.s. territories, including by promoting civic engagement among the territorial diaspora throughout the united states.
Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Avow Inc. 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 10 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) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 10% 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.
114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 115 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 TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS ↗
- Who funds Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REPOWER ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Black Voters Matter Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Care in Action Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM ACTION ↗
- Who funds PODER NC ACTION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RISING INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL ARIZONA ACTION ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds NCAAT IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds VOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds NEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION ↗
- Who funds DOWN HOME NC ↗
- Who funds We The People Action Fund ↗
- Who funds ONE APIA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds FORWARD ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA WINS ↗
- Who funds CASA IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY ↗
- Who funds POWER ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds UltraViolet Action ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Center For Racial and Gender E NFP ↗
- Who funds PODER ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR LIBERATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
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: Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Pro-Democracy Campaign · State Engagement Fund · North Fund · The Heising-Simons Action 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 Women Donors Network Action 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.
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.