Michigan · Nonprofit
We The People Action Fund
We The People Action Fund (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,691,593 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($2,295,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What We The People Action Fund does
Mission
To promote racial and economic justice throughout Michigan by training and organizing community leaders across the state; Engaging community members in the development of thoughtful public policy solutions through nonpartisan educational means; Engaging in voter education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On July 30 , 2024, we received $300,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund through their Rural Action Fund to WTPAF for general operating support. We The People Action Fund is an organization that works to build and strengthen multi-racial, working-class community organizing infrastructure across Michigan in order to build shared vision for our state and contest for progressive governing power.We The People Action Fund (WTPAF) and its sister 501c3 organization We The People MI (WTPMI) launched in the summer of 2017, focusing first on building deep relationships in a wide range of rural, urban, and suburban communities across the state, from the Keweenaw Peninsula to the city of Detroit. We are focused on 1) building rigorous, disciplined, organizing capacity in communities across the state, 2) developing a strong proactive narrative and peoples agenda rooted in communities, and 3) uniting Michiganders across identities and geographies and engaging people to build collectively toward economic and racial justice. Our long-term goal is to build a robust organized base of multi-racial working class people that recognize a linked fate across many communities in Michigan and advance a…
$1,591,226 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,591,226.
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 $1.9M to $3.4M (+81%).
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 We The People 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. 0 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.
Board chair
Stephanie Arellano
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $1.3M.
2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 We The People 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
We The People Action Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 We The People Action Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 53% · 2022 55% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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
We The People Action Fund draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
We The People Action Fund runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like We The People 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- We the People Michigan · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for We The People 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 We The People Action Fund?
- We The People Action Fund (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,691,593 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($2,295,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does We The People Action Fund have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $6,691,593 in grants to We The People Action Fund, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of We The People Action Fund?
- SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,295,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like We The People Action Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing