Funding search · EIN 844316553 · Los Altos, CA

The Heising-Simons Action Fund

Name: The Heising-Simons Action Fund grants, 2022–2024
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.

222
grants reported: $48.0M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $200,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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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.

Tides Advocacy18 grants · $2.5M
Energy Action Fund5 grants · $1.7M
Children'S Funding Accelerator3 grants · $1.4M
First Five Action Fund3 grants · $1.3M
Center for Community Change Action3 grants · $1.3M
Sixteen Thirty Fund4 grants · $1.3M
Climate Power3 grants · $1.2M
Care in Action3 grants · $1.2M
Environmental Defense Action Fund3 grants · $1.2M
Impact Fellows Action Fund3 grants · $1.2M

Giving over time

$16.0M

2022

$15.8M

2023

$16.2M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 222 grants.

$700,000
States United Action · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$645,000
Alliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2024
For general support
$550,000
Children'S Funding Accelerator · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$500,000
Climate Equity Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$500,000
Climate Equity Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
For the climate equity action fund
$500,000
Energy Action Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023
For general support
$500,000
Center for Community Change Action · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$500,000
First Five Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$500,000
Sixteen Thirty Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
For the climate equity action fund
$475,000
Energy Action Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022
For general support
$400,000
Care in Action · New York, NY · 2024
For the care can't wait campaign
$400,000
Carolina Federation · Durham, NC · 2024
For general support
$400,000
Center for Community Change Action · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$400,000
Child Care Providers United California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
For communications support to transform child care subsidies in california
$400,000
Climate Power · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$400,000
Energy Action Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024
For general support
$400,000
Environmental Defense Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$400,000
First Five Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$400,000
Impact Fellows Action Fund · Overland Park, KS · 2024
For general support
$400,000
League of Conservation Voters · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$400,000
Momsrising Together · Bellevue, WA · 2024
For general support
$400,000
Parent Voices Action · Oakland, CA · 2024
For general support
$400,000
Care in Action · New York, NY · 2023
For care can't wait table
$400,000
Center for Community Change Action · Washington, DC · 2023
For general support
$400,000
Children'S Funding Accelerator · Washington, DC · 2023
For general support
$400,000
Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund · New York, NY · 2023
For general support
$400,000
Climate Power · Washington, DC · 2023
For general support
$400,000
Colorofchangeorg · Oakland, CA · 2023
For general support
$400,000
Environmental Defense Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
For general support
$400,000
First Five Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
For general support
$400,000
Impact Fellows Action Fund · Overland Park, KS · 2023
For general support
$400,000
League of Conservation Voters · Washington, DC · 2023
For general support
$400,000
Momsrising Together · Bellevue, WA · 2023
For general support
$400,000
New Left Accelerator · Alameda, CA · 2023
For capacity building supports and technical assistance to heising simons action fund grantees
$400,000
Save the Children Action Network · Washington, DC · 2023
For general support
$400,000
Care in Action · New York, NY · 2022
For general support
$400,000
Children'S Funding Accelerator · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$400,000
Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund · New York, NY · 2022
For general support
$400,000
Climate Power · Sacramento, CA · 2022
For climate power
$400,000
Colorofchangeorg · Oakland, CA · 2022
For general support
$400,000
Environmental Defense Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$400,000
Impact Fellows Action Fund · Overland Park, KS · 2022
For general support
$400,000
League of Conservation Voters · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$400,000
Momsrising Together · Bellevue, WA · 2022
For general support
$400,000
Save the Children Action Network · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$400,000
Stand for Children · Portland, OR · 2022
For general support
$400,000
Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2022
For sister warriors action fund
$325,000
New Left Accelerator · Alameda, CA · 2022
For capacity building supports and technical assistance to heising simons action fund grantees
$300,000
Center for American Progress Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$300,000
Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund · New York, NY · 2024
For general support
$300,000
Fight for the Future · Boston, MA · 2024
For general support
$300,000
National Women'S Law Center Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$300,000
New Left Accelerator · Alameda, CA · 2024
For general support
$300,000
Nrdc Action Fund · New York, NY · 2024
For general support
$300,000
Save the Children Action Network · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$300,000
Sixteen Thirty Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
For csme action
$300,000
Stand for Children · Portland, OR · 2024
For general support
$300,000
Working Families Organization · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
For general support
$300,000
Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions · Washington, DC · 2023
For general support
$300,000
National Women'S Law Center Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
For general support
$300,000
Nrdc Action Fund · New York, NY · 2023
For general support
$300,000
Stand for Children · Portland, OR · 2023
For general support
$300,000
Texas Organizing Project · San Antonio, TX · 2023
For general support
$300,000
Working Families Organization · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
For united fort worth
$300,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Action · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$300,000
National Women'S Law Center Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$300,000
Nrdc Action Fund · New York, NY · 2022
For general support
$300,000
Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2022
For la defensa
$300,000
Vote Yes for Kids · Albuquerque, NM · 2022
For general support
$275,000
Sixteen Thirty Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
For child care for every family action
$275,000
Bluegreen Alliance · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
For general support
$250,000
Climate Emergency Advocates · Boston, MA · 2024
For general support
$250,000
Forward Action Fund (Formerly Family Friendly Action Fund) · Concord, NH · 2024
For the campaign for a family friendly economy
$250,000
Equity Action · Austin, TX · 2023
For general support
$250,000
Care for Monterey County Kids · Salinas, CA · 2022
For general support
$250,000
Center for American Progress Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$250,000
National Wildlife Federation Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
For general support
$250,000
North Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
For support of the safer states initiative
$250,000
Texas Organizing Project · San Antonio, TX · 2022
For general support
$225,000
Children Now Action Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024
For the california pro-kid scorecard
$225,000
Our Kids Our Future · Sebastopol, CA · 2022
For our kids our future initiative
$200,000
Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$200,000
Climate Cabinet Action · San Francisco, CA · 2024
For general support
$200,000
Counterspark · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$200,000
Dignity and Power in Action · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
For general support
$200,000
Mijente · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
For general support
$200,000
Neo Philanthropy Action Fund · New York, NY · 2024
For the four freedoms action fund
$200,000
The Leadership Conference On Civil and Human Rights · Washington, DC · 2024
For general support
$200,000
Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2024
For sister warriors action fund
$200,000
Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2024
For down ballot climate action fund
$200,000
Yes On Prop 6 End Slavery in California · Sacramento, CA · 2024
For general support
$200,000
Children Now Action Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023
For ece focused california pro-kid scorecard
$200,000
Counterspark · Washington, DC · 2023
For general support
$200,000
Energy Action Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023
For general support
$200,000
Fight for the Future · Boston, MA · 2023
For general support
$200,000
Mijente · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
For general support
$200,000
Million Voter Project Action Fund Sponsored By Social Justice Orgs · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
For general support
$200,000
Neo Philanthropy Action Fund · New York, NY · 2023
For the four freedoms action fund
$200,000
Oc Action · Buena Park, CA · 2023
For general support
$200,000
Our Kids Our Future · Sebastopol, CA · 2023
For our kids our future initiative

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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.