Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
POWER SHIFT NETWORK
POWER SHIFT NETWORK (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,715,991 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($650,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $-72487
What Power Shift Network does
Mission
The Power Shift Network mobilizes the collective power of young people to mitigate climate change and create a just, clean energy future and resilient, thriving communities for all.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Programming ceased after the convergence at the end of april 2023 due to financial constraints. In light of the organization's financial situation as of fy 2024, an interim board of directors determined that the best course forward for psn is to dissolve. The interim board contracted with a mediation/facilitation team to interview past board, staff, and members, to develop a narrative of what transpired that can serve as lessons learned for the youth climate justice movement going forward. Upon the completion of this narrative-building process in june 2024, the interim board will officially dissolve psn.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Power Shift Network mobilizes the collective power of young people to mitigate the climate crisis and create a just, clean energy future and resilient, thriving communities for all. With a national network of more than 100 climate and environmental organizations, we're building a strong, intersectional, bottom-up movement to take on the climate crisis, shift the power, and create systemic change. Our major activity in fy 2023 was our bi-annual signature program: ps23 convergence, which is a meeting hub for climate and social justice activists to share knowledge and deepen the interpersonal kinships critical to the fight against oppression and climate destruction. Ps23 convergence brought together over 650 young people, primarily from the us and including territories as far away as guam, to deepen in the practices of self and communal care as a proactive measure in the resistance to climate destruction. Ps23 convergence helped attendees acquire the skills necessary to become the social justice and climate change leaders we need, with programming including disability justice and praxis, solidarity economy frameworks, financial accessibility, arts and culture, network weaving and…
$1,981,143 spentof which $156,669 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,981,143.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $810k to $297k (−63%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Michel Legendre
Board member & chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $91k → $1.2M.
16 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 POWER SHIFT NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 funders by total. 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
POWER SHIFT NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
51% 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 POWER SHIFT NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 28% · 2019 16% · 2020 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 22% · 2023 21% — 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
23% of POWER SHIFT NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
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
POWER SHIFT NETWORK draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like POWER SHIFT NETWORK
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.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POWER SHIFT NETWORK: 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 POWER SHIFT NETWORK?
- POWER SHIFT NETWORK (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,715,991 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($650,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POWER SHIFT NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $5,715,991 in grants to POWER SHIFT NETWORK, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POWER SHIFT NETWORK?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POWER SHIFT NETWORK 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 79 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