Funding search · EIN 453084134 · Oakland, CA

Center for Empowered Politics

Name: Center for Empowered Politics grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

103
grants reported: $4.8M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

building capacity organizational policy black regrant primary stipends

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Rising Voices Action Fund2 grants · $1.2M
One Apia Nevada4 grants · $380,000
Asian American Advocacy Fund4 grants · $300,000
Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance3 grants · $290,000
Our Future Is Black3 grants · $263,000
Michigan Action2 grants · $230,000
Ncaat in Action2 grants · $230,000
Drum Beats4 grants · $140,000
Social Good Fund3 grants · $115,000
Ncaat Action Fund2 grants · $100,000

Giving over time

$183,750

2021

$1.9M

2022

$2.8M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 103 grants.

$599,969
Rising Voices Action Fund · Lansing, MI · 2024
Political purpose regrant
$599,969
Rising Voices Action Fund · Lansing, MI · 2024
Political purpose regrant
$140,000
One Apia Nevada · Las Vegas, NV · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant and general operating funds
$140,000
One Apia Nevada · Las Vegas, NV · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant and general operating funds
$120,000
Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant/research
$120,000
Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant/research
$115,000
Ncaat in Action · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Primary and political purpose regrant
$115,000
Ncaat in Action · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Primary and political purpose regrant
$115,000
Michigan Action · Detroit, MI · 2022
Rising voices contribution
$115,000
Michigan Action · Detroit, MI · 2022
Rising voices contribution
$100,000
Asian American Advocacy Fund · Norcross, GA · 2022
General operating grant
$100,000
Asian American Advocacy Fund · Norcross, GA · 2022
General operating grant
$100,000
Our Future Is Black · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating grant
$100,000
Our Future Is Black · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating grant
$63,000
Our Future Is Black · Oakland, CA · 2021
Grant for pac activities
$53,000
Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2022
Stipends
$53,000
Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2022
Stipends
$50,000
Asian American Advocacy Fund · Norcross, GA · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$50,000
Asian American Advocacy Fund · Norcross, GA · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$50,000
Asian American Midwest · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating grant
$50,000
Asian American Midwest Progressives · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating grant
$50,000
Asian Pacific American · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General operating grant
$50,000
Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General operating grant
$50,000
Chinese Progressive Political · Boston, MA · 2022
General operating support
$50,000
Chinese Progressive Political Action · Boston, MA · 2022
General operating support
$50,000
Drum Beats · Jackson Heights, NY · 2022
General operating support
$50,000
Drum Beats · Jackson Heights, NY · 2022
General operating supportgeneral operating support
$50,000
Nakasec Action Fund · Centrevill, VA · 2022
General operating grant
$50,000
Nakasec Action Fund · Centrevill, VA · 2022
General operating grant
$50,000
Ncaat Action Fund · Raleigh, NC · 2022
General operating grant
$50,000
Ncaat Action Fund · Raleigh, NC · 2022
General operating grantgeneral operating grant
$50,000
One Apia Nevada · Las Vegas, NV · 2022
General operating grant
$50,000
One Apia Nevada · Las Vegas, NV · 2022
General operating grant
$50,000
Chicago Normi · Chicago, IL · 2021
Grant for technical assistance
$50,000
Young Womens Freedom Center · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Grant for policy campaign
$42,500
Mississippi Votes Action Fund · Jackson, MS · 2024
Black policy initiative grant
$42,500
Mississippi Votes Action Fund · Jackson, MS · 2024
Black policy initiative grant
$40,000
Az Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Advocates · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$40,000
Az Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Advocates · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$37,500
Silicon Valley Rising Action · San Jose, CA · 2024
Primary purpose general operating grant
$37,500
Silicon Valley Rising Action · San Jose, CA · 2024
Primary purpose general operating grant
$35,000
Florida Rising Together · Miami, FL · 2022
Stipends
$35,000
Florida Rising Together · Miami, FL · 2022
Stipends
$30,000
Bay Rising Committee · Oakland, CA · 2022
Grant redesignation to the brc pac ru account
$30,000
Bay Rising Committee · Oakland, CA · 2022
Grant redesignation to brc
$27,687
Our Future Is Black Pac · Oakland, CA · 2024
Political purpose regrant
$27,687
Our Future Is Black Pac · Oakland, CA · 2024
Political purpose regrant
$26,850
Force for Change · Oakland, CA · 2024
Contribution to primary purpose voter guide
$26,850
Force for Change · Oakland, CA · 2024
Contribution to primary purpose voter guide
$25,000
Oakland Rising Ballot · Oakland, CA · 2022
Transfer of tsff grant
$25,000
Oakland Rising Ballot Committee · Oakland, CA · 2022
Transfer of tsff grant
$25,000
Oakland Rising Committee · Oakland, CA · 2022
Contribution
$25,000
Oakland Rising Committee · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating grant
$20,500
Ella Baker Center Action Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024
Californian's united against prop 36 support
$20,000
Asian American Midwest Progressives · Chicago, IL · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$20,000
Asian American Midwest Progressives · Chicago, IL · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$20,000
Chinese Progressive Political Action · Boston, MA · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$20,000
Chinese Progressive Political Action · Boston, MA · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$20,000
Drum Beats · Jackson Heights, NY · 2024
Primary purpose general operating grant
$20,000
Drum Beats · Jackson Heights, NY · 2024
Primary purpose general operating grant
$20,000
East Bay Action · Oakland, CA · 2024
Governing power project and voter outreach
$20,000
East Bay Action · Oakland, CA · 2024
Governing power project and voter outreach
$15,000
Black Voters Matter · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Regrant for advanced accelerator cohort
$15,000
Black Voters Matter · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Regrant for advanced accelerator cohort
$15,000
Maine People'S Alliance · Portland, ME · 2024
Regrant for advanced accelerator cohort
$15,000
Maine People'S Alliance · Portland, ME · 2024
Regrant for advanced accelerator cohort
$15,000
Pico California Action Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Primary purpose general operating grant
$15,000
Pico California Action Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Primary purpose general operating grant
$15,000
Red Wine & Blue · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Regrant for advanced accelerator cohort
$15,000
Red Wine & Blue · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Regrant for advanced accelerator cohort
$15,000
Arizona Wins · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General operating grant
$15,000
Arizona Wins · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General operating grant
$15,000
Dwight Hall at Yale Univ · New Haven, CT · 2022
Black policy institute grant
$15,000
Dwight Hall at Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
Black policy institute grant
$15,000
One Apia Texas · Houston, TX · 2022
General operating support
$15,000
One Apia Texas · Houston, TX · 2022
General operating grant
$13,500
Hope Enterprise Corporation · Jackson, MS · 2022
Stipends
$13,500
Hope Enterprise Corporation · Jackson, MS · 2022
Stipends
$12,500
Young Womens Freedom Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$12,500
Young Womens Freedom Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$10,000
East Bay Action Pac · Oakland, CA · 2024
No on prop 36 and prop 5
$10,000
Asian Pacific American Net · Portland, OR · 2022
General operating grant
$10,000
Asian Pacific American Network Oregon · Portland, OR · 2022
General operating grant
$10,000
Care in Action · New York, NY · 2022
Sponsorship
$10,000
Care in Action · New York, NY · 2022
Sponsorship
$9,000
Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2021
Black policy institute stipend
$8,000
Oaklanders Together for a Safer Oakland · Oakland, CA · 2024
Oppose measure nn in oakland
$8,000
One Voice · Lake Odessa, MI · 2024
Black policy initiative grant
$8,000
One Voice · Lake Odessa, MI · 2024
Black policy initiative grant
$7,500
Change Today Change Tomorrow · Louisville, KY · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$7,500
Change Today Change Tomorrow · Louisville, KY · 2024
Organizational capacity building grant
$7,500
New Georgia Project · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Black policy initiative grant
$7,500
New Georgia Project · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Black policy initiative grant
$7,500
Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2024
Black policy initiative grant
$7,500
Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2024
Black policy initiative grant
$7,500
Education Reform Now · New York, NY · 2022
Stipends
$7,500
Education Reform Now · New York, NY · 2022
Stipends
$6,000
New Life Worship Center · Hartford, CT · 2021
Black policy institute stipend
$5,750
The Free School · Albany, NY · 2022
Stipend
$5,750
The Free School · Albany, NY · 2022
Stipend

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.