Funding search · EIN 824170762 · Washington, DC

Future Forward USA Action

Name: Future Forward USA Action 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.

127
grants reported: $501.6M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $320,600
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

primary political

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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.

Where the money goes

Direct political spending through affiliated FF PAC
Voter mobilization and turnout programs in battleground states
Progressive infrastructure intermediaries: America Votes, Sixteen Thirty Fund
Partisan digital media and newsroom operations
Constituency organizing: Latino, AAPI, Black voter groups
Reproductive rights and abortion access advocacy

Typical grant

Median grant is about $320,600, with the middle half between $125,000 and $1.2 million. The enormous checks go to the affiliated FF PAC ($251.5 million in 2024) and to national pass-through intermediaries like America Votes and Sixteen Thirty Fund in the eight-figure range, while constituency and state groups get $50,000 to $500,000. Giving is overwhelmingly concentrated in election years: 2024 accounts for nearly all the dollars, with only six modest grants in 2023.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“Primary Purpose”
“General Support”
“Political”
“Action Fund”
“Education Fund”

Positioning adjacent work

Do not approach directly. Route through America Votes, Sixteen Thirty Fund, or New Venture Fund, which they fund heavily.
Frame work as voter contact, turnout, or persuasion research tied to a battleground state.
Ask in the $250,000 to $1 million range if pitching a constituency or state-level program.
Time proposals to the election cycle. Off-year giving nearly stops.

Worth knowing: This is a 501(c)(4) political vehicle, not a conventional grantmaking foundation, and half the money in the record is a single transfer to its own affiliated PAC. Giving is relationship-driven inside the progressive donor network, heavily DC-based, and cycle-driven, so anything academic or nonpartisan is a poor fit.

Top recipients

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

Ff Pac4 grants · $274.8M
America Votes1 grant · $34.2M
Sixteen Thirty Fundspa2 grants · $29.2M
America Votes Education Fund1 grant · $19.3M
National Philanthropic Trust1 grant · $16.8M
Working America Education Fund1 grant · $15.3M
Courier Newsroom1 grant · $13.6M
Rapid Resist Action1 grant · $9.4M
Workmoney1 grant · $5.8M
Organizing Empowerment Project1 grant · $5.0M

Giving over time

$6.2M

2021

$16.5M

2022

$9.6M

2023

$469.3M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 127 grants.

$251.5M
Ff Pac · Washington, DC · 2024
Political
$34.2M
America Votes · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$27.7M
Sixteen Thirty Fundspa · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$19.3M
America Votes Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$16.8M
National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2024
Primary purpose
$15.3M
Working America Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$13.6M
Courier Newsroom · New York, NY · 2024
Primary purpose
$12.0M
Ff Pac · Washington, DC · 2022
Political
$9.4M
Rapid Resist Action · Chicago, IL · 2024
Primary purpose
$8.0M
Ff Pac · Washington, DC · 2023
Political
$5.8M
Workmoney · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Primary purpose
$5.0M
Organizing Empowerment Project · McFarland, WI · 2024
Primary purpose
$5.0M
Working America Action · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$4.8M
Counteract Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$3.8M
Way To Win Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$3.6M
Vote Rev Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$3.4M
Turnout Action Fund · Evanston, IL · 2024
Primary purpose
$3.4M
Ff Pac · Washington, DC · 2021
General Support
$3.0M
Voto Latino · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$2.5M
Black Progressive Action Coalition · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$2.5M
The Act Now Project · Covina, CA · 2024
Primary purpose
$2.3M
Planned Parenthood Action Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Primary purpose
$2.3M
Building Back Together · Washington, DC · 2021
Primary Purpose
$2.1M
Potential Energy Action Network · New York, NY · 2024
Primary purpose
$2.0M
Development Now for Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$2.0M
Focus for Democracy Action · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$2.0M
The Future Now Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.9M
Good Neighbor Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.6M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.5M
Sixteen Thirty Fundspa · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$1.3M
Way To Rise · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.3M
Voter Formation Project · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.2M
Future Now Action · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.1M
Accelerate Change · Boston, MA · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.1M
The Voter Participation Center · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.1M
Aapi Victory Power Fund · Chicago, IL · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.1M
All Americans Vote · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.1M
Voteamerica · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.0M
Civics Unplugged · New York, NY · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.0M
Reproductive Freedom for All Committee · Detroit, MI · 2024
Primary purpose
$1.0M
Story Network Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$900,000
The Voter Project · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Primary purpose
$850,000
Headcount · New York, NY · 2024
Primary purpose
$750,000
Betches Media Llc · New York, NY · 2024
Primary purpose
$750,000
Equis Institute · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Primary purpose
$750,000
Fair Democracy · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$550,000
Free Our Vote · Bethesda, MD · 2024
Primary purpose
$525,000
Center for Voter Information · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$500,000
Emily'S List Action · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$500,000
More Than a Vote · Arlington, VA · 2024
Primary purpose
$500,000
Progressive Victory Action · Arlington, VA · 2024
Primary purpose
$500,000
Rise United Network · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$500,000
Community Change Action · Washington, DC · 2022
Primary Purpose
$500,000
Indivisible Project · Washington, DC · 2022
Primary Purpose
$500,000
Way To Win Action Fund · Walnut, CA · 2022
Primary Purpose
$500,000
Working Families Power · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Primary Purpose
$475,000
Congressional Integrity Project · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$450,000
Americans for Contraception · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$450,000
Voter Participation Center · Washington, DC · 2022
Primary Purpose
$379,414
Ohio Alliance for Community Education Fund · Cleveland Heights, OH · 2024
Primary purpose
$374,000
America Works · Washington, DC · 2023
Primary Purpose
$355,000
Ready Campaigns · St Louis, MO · 2023
Primary Purpose
$350,000
Civic Nation Action · Washington, DC · 2022
Primary Purpose
$320,600
Mi Familia Vota Education Fund · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Primary purpose
$306,000
America Works · Washington, DC · 2023
Political
$300,000
Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Primary purpose
$300,000
Indian American Impact · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$300,000
One Apia Nevada · Las Vegas, NV · 2024
Primary purpose
$300,000
Southeast Asian Action · Waunakee, WI · 2024
Primary purpose
$250,000
Community Change Action · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$250,000
Community Change Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$250,000
Equislabs · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
$250,000
Faith Forward · Chevy Chase, MD · 2024
Primary purpose
$250,000
Moveonorg Civic Action · Beaverton, OR · 2024
Primary purpose
$250,000
Moveonorg Political Action · Beaverton, OR · 2024
Political
$250,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024
Primary purpose
$250,000
Nextgen Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Primary purpose
$250,000
Priorities USA Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$250,000
Vote To Live Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$250,000
Nevada Alliance · Las Vegas, NV · 2023
Primary Purpose
$250,000
Ultraviolet Action · Washington, DC · 2022
Primary Purpose
$214,750
Action for the Climate Emergency · Charlestown, MA · 2024
Primary purpose
$214,050
Center for Civic Information · Savannah, GA · 2021
Primary Purpose
$200,000
Defending Democracy Together · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$200,000
Hometown Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Primary purpose
$200,000
Reproductive Freedom for All · Detroit, MI · 2022
Primary Purpose
$200,000
Wake Up & Vote · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Primary Purpose
$175,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Primary purpose
$150,000
Latino Victory Project · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$150,000
Texas Blue Action Fund · Austin, TX · 2023
Political
$150,000
The Act Now Project · Covina, CA · 2023
Primary Purpose
$150,000
National Conf On Citizenship · Washington, DC · 2022
Primary Purpose
$126,500
Campaign To End Covid Now · Washington, DC · 2021
Primary Purpose
$125,000
Aapi Victory Power Fund · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$125,000
Watering Hole Media Action · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$125,000
Watering Hole Media Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$125,000
Way To Win Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$101,850
Care in Action · New York, NY · 2021
Primary Purpose
$100,000
Black Men Vote Civic Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Primary purpose
$100,000
Emgage Action · Lakeland, FL · 2024
Primary purpose

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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.