New York · Nonprofit
OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC
OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being ORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $157M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Open Society Action Fund Inc does
Mission
To promote social justice and human rights through domestic and foreign policy advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Several domestic and international programs such as global, open society united states, open society middle east-north africa, and open society-africa, are undergoing wind-downs and restructuring. As a result, the number and size of grants issued have been significantly reduced.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Domestic: open society action fund (osaf), furthers its social welfare activities through advocacy, coalition, building and grantmaking on a range of domestic policy areas, which in 2024 included the following: democracy defense, voting rights, election integrity, census, redistricting, economic security, workers rights, immigration, civil rights, racial justice, gender justice, lgbtq rights, reproductive freedom, courts accountability and ethics reform, combating mis- and disinformation, technology and civil rights, community safety, climate and environmental justice, corporate accountability, government accountability and transparency, judicial nominations, criminal justice reform, national security and civil rights, housing and health equity, education, and advancing a non-militarized, diplomacy-first u.s. Foreign policy.
$152,320,301 spentof which $148,700,129 as grants87% of program spendingInternational: osaf furthers its social welfare activities through advocacy, coalition-building and grantmaking on a range of international policy areas, which in 2024 included the following: africa, asia, europe and eurasia, latin america, middle east and north africa, climate, energy, and environmental justice, corporate accountability, criminal justice, democracy, digital rights, drug policy, economic justice, finance and debt relief, health, human rights, racial, gender, and ethnic justice, and peace and security-related issues.
$23,475,683 spentof which $22,102,283 as grants13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $175,795,984.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $53M to $14M (−74%).
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 5 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
Laleh Ispahani
Director, executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $60k → $50k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $989M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fund for Policy Reform Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC’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
OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- Foundation to Promote Open Society · exempt
- Alliance for Open Society International · exempt
- Open Society Fund Inc · exempt
- Soros Economic Development Fund · exempt
- Open Society Institute · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC: 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 OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being ORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $110,000 in grants to OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC?
- ORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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