Ohio · Nonprofit
STATE POWER ACTION FUND
STATE POWER ACTION FUND (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,047,500 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($1,375,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What State Power Action Fund does
Mission
The State Power Action Fund is dedicated to educating the general public on racial, economic, and social justice issues and developing strategies to reduce poverty, decrease disparities, and improve living conditions for low-income americans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Collaborate with individuals and institutions to provide fiscal sponsorships and project hosting support that enables them to reach their philanthropic goals.
$2,883,172 spentof which $463,775 as grants$94,233 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,883,172.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $2.0M (+80%).
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.
97% of STATE POWER ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Kristen Crowell
Executive director
Board chair
Prentiss Haney
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.4M.
1 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $120k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest State Power Action Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money STATE POWER ACTION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of STATE POWER 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
STATE POWER ACTION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders 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 STATE POWER ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 83% · 2022 74% · 2023 33% — 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
STATE POWER ACTION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $440k 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
STATE POWER ACTION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 STATE POWER 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STATE POWER 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STATE POWER ACTION FUND?
- STATE POWER ACTION FUND (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,047,500 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($1,375,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STATE POWER ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $5,047,500 in grants to STATE POWER ACTION FUND, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STATE POWER ACTION FUND?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STATE POWER ACTION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 15 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