California · Nonprofit
SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK
SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,100,015 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,548,015). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $929k
What Sister District Action Network does
Mission
Sister District Action Network inspires and empowers legislators, organizations, volunteers, and voters through civic education, rigorous research, policy analysis, and strategic convenings to engage deeply in civic engagement activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research - our award-winning research team conducts research and analysis to develop best practices for voter and volunteer engagement and contribute to non-profit organization which may at their discretion use their funds for political activities. This work ensures we are utilizing the highest impact tactics in our work. We also perform qualitative and narrative research to investigate how non-experimental factors like race and gender may impact electoral outcomes.
$236,087 spentof which $534,730 as grants19% of program spendingState bridges - activates sister district volunteers across the country to fundraise for organizations leading year-round power-building work.
$213,832 spent17% of program spendingResearch (non primary purpose) - our award-winning research team conducts academic-quality experiments and analyses to develop and disseminate best practices in the areas of voter and volunteer engagement that specifically involves outreach to liberal voters. This work ensures we are utilizing the highest impact tactics in our work. We also perform qualitative and narrative research to investigate how non-experimental factors like race and gender may impact electoral outcomes.
$162,755 spent13% of program spendingPurple district network - builds community among purple district legislators in order to share best practices, governance techniques, education and strategies for being effective legislators. Narrative building & story telling - increases understanding of the public about the power and promise of states.state power table is convening national organizations engaged in progressive state legislator support in order to 1) increase our collective impact by identifying and pursuing opportunities to streamline organizational efforts through collaboration and coordination, 2) increase visibility about progressive state legislators, policy and issues, and 3) drive collective narrative around the importance of state legislators, policy and issues.
$649,104 spent51% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,261,778.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $736k to $1.4M (+89%).
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.
100% of SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 3 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $90k → $570k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK’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
SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 82% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 40% 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
74% of SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $552k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SISTER DISTRICT ACTION 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sister District Project Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SISTER DISTRICT ACTION 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 SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK?
- SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,100,015 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,548,015). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,100,015 in grants to SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,548,015 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SISTER DISTRICT ACTION NETWORK 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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