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MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST

MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,995,731 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,950,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.8M
Revenue FY2024
19
Funders on record
$12M
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
6/19 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve5.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)60% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($250k) Expenses 100 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($398k)2018 Revenue 777 ($1.9M) Expenses 2631 ($2.0M) Net assets 94 ($376k)2019 Revenue 563 ($1.4M) Expenses 1742 ($1.3M) Net assets 121 ($483k)2020 Revenue 1200 ($3.0M) Expenses 4517 ($3.4M) Net assets 27 ($109k)2021 Revenue 130 ($324k) Expenses 28 ($21k) Net assets 103 ($412k)2022 Revenue 100 ($250k) Expenses 50 ($38k) Net assets 227 ($904k)2023 Revenue 190 ($475k) Expenses 312 ($233k) Net assets 288 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 2736 ($6.8M) Expenses 7232 ($5.4M) Net assets 650 ($2.6M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (2736)Expenses (7232)Net assets (650)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$175k
17
$23k
18
$107k
19
$374k
20
$303k
21
$213k
22
$242k
23
$1.4M
24
5.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $940k → $475k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$709k
$300k
Power Californiaunclassified
$100k
Tides Advocacyunclassified
$100k
Grove Action Fundunclassified
$20k
$10k
Seiu Local 2015unclassified
$10k
funders
4
7
6
6
2
2
1
1

4 of 19 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: $415k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Million Voters Project Action Fund for Schools and Communities First). These are real filings, and they are not money MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST raised.

From the IRS filings of MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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

MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST.

41%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 74% · 2019 30% · 2020 76% · 2021 40% · 2022 80% · 2023 58%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

15% of MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

97% of MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST's grant income comes from California funders.

MA
CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

18
19
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 19 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: 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 MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST?
MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,995,731 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,950,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $11,995,731 in grants to MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST?
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 19funders 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