California · Nonprofit
PLUS Action Fund
PLUS Action Fund (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,000 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS ACTION FUND ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $620
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $280k
- Net assets
- $0
What PLUS Action Fund does
Mission
Advocacy for Paid Family Leave for workers in the US
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Public Sector EngagementEducating and engaging policy makers and other key decision makers on paid family and medical leave, and advocating that they support high quaility public policy to provide paid leave and address the caregiving crises in the US.
$21,920 spent81% of program spendingPolitical EngagementEducating electoral candidates on the importance of paid family and medical leave public policy, and endorsing issue champions.
$5,000 spent19% of program spendingEducation & OutreachBuilding awareness of paid family and medical leave and highlighting the stories of impacted people through original reports, research, and paid and earned media that identify the complexity and broad impact of this issue.
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,920.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $67k (−97%).
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 3 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.
Board chair
Sarah El-Amine
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100k → $180k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $200k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest PLUS Fund Paid Leave for the United States). These are real filings, and they are not money PLUS Action Fund raised.
From the IRS filings of PLUS 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
PLUS Action Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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 PLUS Action Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 83% — 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 PLUS 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. $30k 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.
Organizations like PLUS 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- PLUS Fund Paid Leave for the US · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLUS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PLUS Action Fund?
- PLUS Action Fund (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,000 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS ACTION FUND ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLUS Action Fund have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $280,000 in grants to PLUS Action Fund, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLUS Action Fund?
- THE HEISING-SIMONS ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLUS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), 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