Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,400,000 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $250k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $668k
What Advancement Project Action Fund does
Mission
Promotes social welfare by inspiring and supporting national and local movements towards a just democracy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization was established in oct 2020 for the purposes of promoting social welfare by inspiring and supporting national and local movements towards a just democracy. In 2023, we supported our grassroots partners in voter protection and gotv efforts with a focus on the issues that are of particular interest to communities of color. We are most focused on efforts that can build power to address policing, criminal justice reform, and educating voters about new voting laws attempting to silence their power. We also supported organizations' narrative work to ensure communities of color are receiving accurate information about the policy issues they care about from trusted messengers.
$152,223 spentof which $50,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $152,223.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $315k to $735k (+133%).
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.
100% of ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Judith Browne Dianis
President, executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income held at $350k.
From the IRS filings of ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION 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
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 71% · 2022 71% · 2023 71% — broadly stable.
“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
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION 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 ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND?
- ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,400,000 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,400,000 in grants to ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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