Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FAITH IN ACTION FUND
FAITH IN ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,591,496 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($975,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $705k
What Faith in Action Fund does
Mission
Faith in Action Fund is dedicated to empowering communities of faith and advancing social justice. The mission of the fund is to: - empower people of faith in states and cities to organize and develop their power, holding elected officials accountable to serve the common good of their constituents. - close racial and generational gaps in voter participation. - expand access to voting by challenging restrictive laws, such as voter id requirements. - reimagine voter engagement through our innovative strategy, flipping the formula, which centers people of color, ensuring that every person has the right to vote and every vote has equal value.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization conducts and supports activities and engages people of faith in efforts to eliminate poverty, promote civic engagement and participation and increase economic opportunity for the disadvantaged population in the united stated.Faith in Action Fund's flipping the formula initiative advanced civic participation and equitable voter engagement among communities of color, low-income voters, and young people. Through coordinated voter registration, education, and mobilization campaigns, federations across multiple states increased turnout and reduced barriers to participation. Efforts focused on nonpartisan voter protection, outreach in underrepresented neighborhoods, and relational organizing rooted in faith communities. Faith in Action Fund trained and supported emerging leaders of color to serve as political strategists, campaign organizers, and civic educators. The political leads program built leadership pipelines that reflect community priorities and moral values, equipping participants to drive policy change and voter engagement strategies at local and state levels. Graduates from the program contributed to helping shape narratives and mobilize communities around…
$299,181 spentof which $160,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $299,181.
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.
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 $884k to $1.5M (+70%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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 narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $150k → $250k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $1.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Faith in Action Network). These are real filings, and they are not money FAITH IN ACTION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of FAITH IN 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
FAITH IN ACTION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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 FAITH IN ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 36% · 2019 57% · 2020 54% · 2021 44% · 2023 100% — 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
14% of FAITH IN ACTION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
FAITH IN ACTION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.
Organizations like FAITH IN ACTION FUND
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAITH IN 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION FUND?
- FAITH IN ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,591,496 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($975,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAITH IN ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,591,496 in grants to FAITH IN ACTION FUND, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAITH IN ACTION FUND?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $975,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAITH IN 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 14 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