New York · Nonprofit
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,300 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $622k
- Net assets
- $351k
What March for Our Lives Action Fund does
Mission
March for our live's (mfol) mission is to harness the power of young people across the country to end all forms of gun violence not just mass shootings, but everyday gun violence, police violence and more.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Using a variety of tactics, we force leaders to confront the epidemic of gun violence and to implement lifesaving measures to restrict access to firearms and provide critical resources to preventative measures that address the root causes of the gun violence crisis.march for our lives educates and mobilizes young people to advance gun safety measures through policy and legislative advocacy, judicial advocacy, and youth voter registration and turnout.policy and legislative advocacy - we work at the state and federal levels to pass gun safety laws such as universal background checks, safe storage laws, and funding for community violence intervention programs.judicial advocacy - we defend gun safety laws against court challenges that seek to weaken gun laws and expand the second amendment. We also run campaigns to invite students-including aspiring legal professionals-into the work to shape second amendment jurisprudence.civic engagement and voter mobilization - mfol organizers use digital and on-the-ground organizing to educate young voters about the issue of gun violence and to ensure they're registered and prepared to vote.
$2,373,177 spentof which $10,496 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,373,177.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $3.1M to $2.2M (−28%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2022: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $45k → $350k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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: $14M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest March for Our Lives Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of MARCH FOR OUR LIVES 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
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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 MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 55% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 43% — 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
0% of MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% 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 FY2022, 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
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k 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.
Against its field
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MARCH FOR OUR LIVES 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 26 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- See Part VII of Schedule R · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND?
- MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,300 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $622,300 in grants to MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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