Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
POGO ACTION INC
POGO ACTION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($1,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $41k
What Pogo Action Inc does
Mission
Pogo action is organized for purposes of social welfare, including but not limited to conducting research, publicizing findings and advocating for a more effective, accountable, open and ethical federal government, including proposing good government issues to candidates and to presidential transition teams.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Fiscal sponsorship of financial accoutability in corporate transparency project at the fund for constitutional government.
$442,957 spentof which $386,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $442,957.
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. 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 $489k to $48k (−90%).
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.
0% of POGO ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $325k → $300k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Project on Government Oversight Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money POGO ACTION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of POGO ACTION 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.
Where its funders are
POGO ACTION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., 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.
Against its field
POGO ACTION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,247 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,247 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like POGO ACTION 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POGO ACTION 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 POGO ACTION INC?
- POGO ACTION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($1,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POGO ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000,000 in grants to POGO ACTION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POGO ACTION INC?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POGO ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 1 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