Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
The Partnership Project Action Fund
The Partnership Project Action Fund (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,518,466 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($9,800,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $13M
What The Partnership Project Action Fund does
Mission
The Partnership Project Action Fund helps the environmental community work more collaboratively to advocate for the protection of the natural environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Partnership Project Action Fund helps the environmental community work more collaboratively to defend environmental safeguards from efforts to weaken them. Specifically, the Partnership Project Action Fund uses paid media, constituent outreach, and opinion research to educate the public, press, and decision makers about the threats to human health and the environment.
$3,933,837 spentof which $1,479,427 as grants$61,798 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,933,837.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.9M to $14M (+41%).
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.
96% of The Partnership Project Action Fund’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Alicia Prevost
CEO
Board chair
Erich Pica
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $4.5M → $1.4M.
3 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $810k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Partnership Project Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money The Partnership Project Action Fund raised.
From the IRS filings of The Partnership Project 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
The Partnership Project Action Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 The Partnership Project Action Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 75% · 2019 94% · 2020 75% · 2021 63% · 2022 82% · 2023 35% — 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
33% of The Partnership Project Action Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
The Partnership Project Action Fund draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M 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
The Partnership Project Action Fund runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like The Partnership Project 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Partnership Project Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Partnership Project 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 The Partnership Project Action Fund?
- The Partnership Project Action Fund (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,518,466 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($9,800,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Partnership Project Action Fund have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $33,518,466 in grants to The Partnership Project Action Fund, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Partnership Project Action Fund?
- LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Partnership Project Action Fund 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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