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EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION

EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $812,738 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($718,858). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$756k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$813k
Net assets
$561k
0/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Equity in Action Way Foundation does

Mission

Eaw is operated exclusively to collaborate with impacted communities and partners across sectors to reveal and address complex problems.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Develop and test a black women and girls vulnerability index and pilot related trainings for agencies and organizations to support the work in mn to address the issue of missing and murdered black women and girls.

    $798,184 spent$753,022 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $798,184.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($719k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($603k)2025 Revenue 105 ($756k) Expenses 691 ($798k) Net assets 93 ($561k)
20242025
Revenue (105)Expenses (691)Net assets (93)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $603k to $561k (−7%).

$603k
$561k
20242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$603k
’24
−$42k
’25
8.4
months of
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.

20242025
Listed44
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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

EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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

88%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Months of reserve8.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION: 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 EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION?
EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $812,738 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($718,858). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $812,738 in grants to EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION?
THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $718,858 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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