Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ACTION NETWORK FUND
ACTION NETWORK FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $652,575 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $212k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $653k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Action Network Fund does
Mission
The Action Network Fund is a hub to support projects that work to restore balance to our economy, creating a more prosperous and just society. The Action Network Fund is committed to partnering with citizens and groups to explore and provide education about expanded forms of support for these projects.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Action Network Fund's workers winning project provides direct capacity-building support, training, leadership development, and technology to grassroots worker groups and emerging unions, and facilitates shared learning, experimentation, and analysis between these groups and other labor organizations.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Action Network Fund's workers winning project provides direct capacity-building support, training, leadership development, and technology to grassroots worker groups and emerging unions, and facilitates shared learning, experimentation, and analysis between these groups and other labor organizations.
$180,787 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $180,787.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $137k to $53k (−61%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of ACTION NETWORK FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $95k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $15k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Action Network). These are real filings, and they are not money ACTION NETWORK FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of ACTION NETWORK FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACTION NETWORK FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACTION NETWORK FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 79% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
67% of ACTION NETWORK FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $213k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $440k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACTION NETWORK FUND's revenue fell 16% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Action Network · exempt
- Action Squared Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTION NETWORK FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTION NETWORK FUND?
- ACTION NETWORK FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $652,575 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACTION NETWORK FUND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $652,575 in grants to ACTION NETWORK FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTION NETWORK FUND?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTION NETWORK FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing