New York · Nonprofit
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $726,241 to it, the largest being Philanthropy International ($218,400). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $57M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $726k
- Net assets
- $21M
What Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc does
Mission
The primary activity of everytown for gun safety action fund is to promote gun safety legislation and initiatives and reduce gun violence through the education of policy-makers, the press, and the public about the consequences of gun violence and organizing communities in support of gun safety.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
2024 was a year of life-saving action, making bipartisan progress across the country. This year, everytown, alongside moms demand action and students demand action volunteers, helped pass 110 gun safety policies, including laws requiring secure storage of firearms, strengthening state background check laws, cracking down on ghost guns, and increasing funding for community violence intervention programs. We also defeated 253 dangerous, gun lobby-backed bills. During the election season, everytown worked to keep building the bench of the next generation of lawmakers. Moms demand action volunteers ran for office at every level of government, and won. Overall, 3,300 gun sense candidates were elected into office up and down the ballot during the 2023-24 election cycle, including 333 of our very own moms demand action volunteers. Marking two years since the 2022 passage of the bipartisan safer communities act, everytown, moms demand action and students demand action celebrated the finalization of a federal rule that closed loopholes in our background check system. In june, at everytown's 11th annual gun sense university in washington, d.c., the president addressed moms demand action and…
$43,124,820 spentof which $1,267,030 as grants$161,381 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,124,820.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $43M to $11M (−75%).
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.
97% of EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $2k → $56k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc); $100k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Crimson Lion Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 74% · 2019 72% · 2020 24% · 2021 35% · 2022 79% · 2023 30% — 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 15 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
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Everytown Federal Victory Fund · exempt
- Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund · exempt
- Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund State Committee LLC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: 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 EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC?
- EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $726,241 to it, the largest being Philanthropy International ($218,400). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $726,241 in grants to EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC?
- Philanthropy International is the largest funder on record, with $218,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 41 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