Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
EWG ACTION FUND
EWG ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE ($495,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EWG ACTION FUND's revenue fell 98% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,351 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- The Partnership Project Action Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- Fund for a Better Future Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Heising-Simons Action Fundshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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 EWG ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $300k → $75k.
From the IRS filings of EWG 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
EWG ACTION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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 EWG ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
91% of EWG ACTION FUND's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
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.
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.
- The Partnership Project Action Fundshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for a Better Future Incshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Heising-Simons Action Fundshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- League of Conservation Voters Incshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Imperative Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tioga Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Environmental Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for American Progress Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sunrise Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sea Change Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- League of Conservation Voters Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nrdc Action Fund Incshared fundersNY · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
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 EWG 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
33% 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 EWG 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 EWG ACTION FUND?
- EWG ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE ($495,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EWG ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $545,000 in grants to EWG ACTION FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EWG ACTION FUND?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE is the largest funder on record, with $495,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EWG 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 2017–2024), 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