New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,984,228 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($3,570,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc does
Mission
The center for popular democracy action (cpda) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. We upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all thrive, no exceptions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Civic engagement: in 2024 cpda also designed a strategy for injecting housing into the political discourse and communicating with renters about what was at stake in the election and where candidates stood on issues that impacted renters specifically. These targeted interventions by pdia, its affiliates, and countless other partners and tenant-led organizations, directly led to the centering of the housing crisis in the president's state of the union address. Pdia collaborated with affiliates, providing support through monthly strategy calls, policy analysis, base-building integration, leadership development, and popular education training, while also planning national campaign opportunities to unify policy platforms and narrative strategies.
$1,166,435 spentof which $687,078 as grants$639,258 earned by the program44% of program spendingCanvass network: cpda's canvass llc provides direct field capacity to our network of organizations and helps them build their membership and leadership. Cpda's organizers and trainers work alongside affiliate leaders to achieve our collective goals of growing our shared base, developing the leadership of impacted people, and increasing the movement's resilience and impact over time. In 2024, the canvass llc called 1,275 voters in key states on voter protections and housing issues.
$644,135 spent$547,747 earned by the program24% of program spendingData: in 2024 cpda expanded the louise jefferson initiative (lji), a series of state heat maps that use demographic data from the voter file (race, registration status, issue scoring, etc.) to visualize our communities. These maps include district boundary lines for the us house, upper and lower chambers of state legislatures, and voting precincts alongside other density maps that can help us develop campaigns and craft messaging. We have completed maps for 15 states and have trained affiliates in those areas to use the map effectively. Our data team also provides additional support to our affiliates and access to additional data tools.
$309,034 spent12% of program spendingBasebuilding
$255,363 spent10% of program spendingCampaigns
$182,486 spent7% of program spendingExecutive office programs
$97,284 spent4% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,654,737.
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 $8.2M to $3.5M (−57%).
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.
49% of CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Christina Livingston
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $623k → $910k.
2 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Center for Popular Democracy Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 40% · 2019 36% · 2020 21% · 2021 68% · 2022 62% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
9% of CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cpd Action Canvass Network LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC?
- CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,984,228 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($3,570,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $11,984,228 in grants to CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,570,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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