California · Nonprofit
NPH Action Fund
NPH Action Fund (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,126,200 to it, the largest being CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE ADVOCACY ($11,566,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What NPH Action Fund does
Mission
To advocate for effective legislation, funding sources and land use policies that enable affordable home development and support thriving, diverse and equitable communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024 NPH Action Fund and its Political Issues Committee supported and helped pass Proposition 1, which generated $2 billion in funding statewide for behavioral health and affordable housing. We lobbied successfully for the passage of Assembly Constitutional Amendment 10, which became Prop. 5 on the state ballot. We supported the passage of San Francisco Proposition A, which delivered $310M in affordable housing funding. In coalition, we launched a grassroots lobbying campaign to win funding in the state budget, including $500M in state tax credits. We also conducted survey research to inform local and state affordable housing campaigns and shared this information with key stakeholders. We engaged with other sector partners through the Bay Area Housing for All Coalition to keep housers and allied groups informed of electoral and lobbying developments.As part of our multi-year effort that culminated in 2024, NPH Action Fund and its Political Issues Committee embarked on an audacious plan to pass a state constitutional amendment, Proposition 5, and regional affordable housing bond, Regional Measure 4. We built a strong and durable coalition of affordable housing advocates both at…
$15,008,785 spentof which $13,282,179 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,008,785.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $2.5M (−78%).
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.
99% of NPH Action Fund’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Matthew O Franklin
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $200k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $4.8M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Francisco Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NPH Action Fund raised.
From the IRS filings of NPH 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
NPH Action Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 NPH Action Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 75% — 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
100% of NPH Action Fund's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NPH Action Fund has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NPH 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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 NPH 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 NPH Action Fund?
- NPH Action Fund (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,126,200 to it, the largest being CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE ADVOCACY ($11,566,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NPH Action Fund have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $12,126,200 in grants to NPH Action Fund, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NPH Action Fund?
- CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE ADVOCACY is the largest funder on record, with $11,566,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NPH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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