Texas · Nonprofit
Deeds Action Fund
Deeds Action Fund (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,000 to it, the largest being NORTH FUND ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Deeds Action Fund's revenue fell 32% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,796 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersportfolio match
- Way to Win Action Fund Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Tides Advocacyshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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 Deeds 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. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $250k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $160k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Deeds Action Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money Deeds Action Fund raised.
From the IRS filings of Deeds 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
Deeds Action Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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 Deeds Action Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 80% — 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
100% of Deeds Action 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $750k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Way to Win Action Fund Incshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tides Advocacyshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 105 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mill Valley Community Action Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barbara Lee Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Youth Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Powerswitch Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Progressive Multiplier Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- General Service Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Proteus Action Leagueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- All Hands on Deck Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Deeds Action Fund
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Deeds 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Deeds Action Fund?
- Deeds Action Fund (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,000 to it, the largest being NORTH FUND ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Deeds Action Fund have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $750,000 in grants to Deeds Action Fund, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Deeds Action Fund?
- NORTH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Deeds Action Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing