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MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND

MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,264,277 to it, the largest being BRIGHT FUTURE FUND ($300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$531k
Revenue FY2025
12
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$291k
Net assets
3/12 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 814 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve7.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 814 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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 ($38k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($174k)2018 Revenue 596 ($228k) Expenses 1113 ($176k) Net assets 130 ($226k)2019 Revenue 1174 ($450k) Expenses 1844 ($291k) Net assets 221 ($385k)2020 Revenue 422 ($162k) Expenses 512 ($81k) Net assets 213 ($370k)2021 Revenue 581 ($222k) Expenses 1891 ($298k) Net assets 107 ($187k)2022 Revenue 6 ($2k) Expenses 73 ($12k) Net assets 18 ($32k)2023 Revenue 78 ($30k) Expenses 31 ($5k) Net assets 33 ($57k)2024 Revenue 132 ($51k) Expenses 234 ($37k) Net assets 41 ($71k)2025 Revenue 1386 ($531k) Expenses 3234 ($510k) Net assets 167 ($291k)
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Revenue (1386)Expenses (3234)Net assets (167)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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,977 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
17
$52k
18
$159k
19
$81k
20
$76k
21
$9k
22
$25k
23
$14k
24
$21k
25
7.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $88k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER 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

MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER 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 MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND.

24%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 69% · 2020 52% · 2021 50% · 2022 44% · 2023 74%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 MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

MA
CA
DC

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k 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.

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 12 funders put you under-funded 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 MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER 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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Movement Strategy Center · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER 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 MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND?
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,264,277 to it, the largest being BRIGHT FUTURE FUND ($300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,264,277 in grants to MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND?
BRIGHT FUTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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