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Our American Future Action

Name: Our American Future Action 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.

251
grants reported: $316.0M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $250,000
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

advocacy democracy protecting social welfare american improve lives

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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

Pooled national c4 intermediaries that regrant to electoral programs
State ballot measure committees, especially reproductive freedom and redistricting
Democracy and anti-authoritarian rapid-response funds
Worker and economic-justice organizing groups (WorkMoney, Working America)
Courts and judicial accountability advocacy (The Justice Project, Demand Justice)
Research, polling and message-testing shops (Evidence for Impact, $10M)

Typical grant

Median check is $250,000 and the middle half runs $100,000 to $1,000,000, but the money is wildly top-heavy: Future Forward USA Action alone took $48.8M, and roughly a dozen national intermediaries absorb most of the $316M. Six-figure grants go to state and constituency groups in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and North Carolina. In this file 251 grants went to 251 distinct recipients, so nothing repeats year over year; giving spikes hard in the election year.

Their words

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

“GENERAL SUPPORT”
“CHARITABLE AND ADVOCACY ACTIVITY”
“CHARITABLE ACTIVITY”
“Action Fund”
“Democracy”

Positioning adjacent work

Route the ask through a 501(c)(4) or PAC vehicle; nearly every recipient here is advocacy-side, not a c3.
Anchor to the Evidence for Impact and Priorities USA line: measurement, persuasion testing, message research.
Ask $250,000 to $1,000,000 unless you are a regranting intermediary; that is where the state-level checks land.
Name a battleground: MI, PA, WI, NV, AZ, NC recipients dominate the sub-$1M tier.

Worth knowing: This is a partisan advocacy funding vehicle, not a philanthropic grants program: 100 of 251 recipients sit in Washington DC, purpose lines are boilerplate, and the giving is clearly relationship- and cycle-driven rather than responsive to unsolicited proposals. Every grant in the file lands in 2024, and no recipient appears twice, so treat any approach as pitching a specific election-cycle project to people who already know your network.

Top recipients

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

Future Forward USA Action1 grant · $48.8M
Future Forward USA Action1 grant · $42.1M
Evidence for Impact1 grant · $10.0M
American Opportunity Action1 grant · $9.8M
House Majority Forward1 grant · $8.2M
Pro-Democracy Campaign1 grant · $7.8M
The Leadership Network1 grant · $7.2M
Brick By Brick Foundation1 grant · $7.0M
Priorities USA1 grant · $5.1M
Searchlight Institute1 grant · $5.0M

Giving over time

$1.0M

2022

$132.4M

2023

$182.6M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 251 grants.

$48.8M
Future Forward USA Action · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable and advocacy activity
$42.1M
Future Forward USA Action · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$10.0M
Evidence for Impact · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable and advocacy activity
$9.8M
American Opportunity Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$8.2M
House Majority Forward · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable and advocacy activity
$7.8M
Pro-Democracy Campaign · Foxboro, MA · 2024
General support
$7.2M
The Leadership Network · West Hollywood, CA · 2023
general support
$7.0M
Brick By Brick Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable and advocacy activity
$5.1M
Priorities USA · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$5.0M
Floridians Protecting Freedom · Miami, FL · 2024
General support
$5.0M
Searchlight Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable and advocacy activity
$5.0M
Workmoney · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
General support
$4.8M
Unrig Our Economy · Wilmington, DE · 2023
general support
$4.7M
Nevada Alliance · Las Vegas, NV · 2024
General support
$4.5M
Working Families Organization · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
$4.3M
Resilience and Renewal Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable and advocacy activity
$4.2M
Missourians for Constitutional Freedom · St Louis, MO · 2024
General support
$4.0M
State Engagement Fund · Raleigh, NC · 2023
general support
$3.8M
Democracy Planning and Enhancement Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable and advocacy activity
$3.5M
Working America · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$3.0M
Citizens Not Politicians · Columbus, OH · 2024
Charitable and advocacy activity
$3.0M
Environmental Defense Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$3.0M
The Justice Project · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$2.9M
United for Democracy · Foxboro, MA · 2024
General support
$2.6M
The Justice Project Action · Foxboro, MA · 2024
General support
$2.5M
The Wisconsin Initiative Pac · Verona, WI · 2023
general support
$2.5M
Priorities USA · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$2.5M
Democracy Planning & Enhance · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$2.5M
Fair Democracy Engagement · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$2.5M
Citizens Not Politicians · Columbus, OH · 2023
general support
$2.3M
America Votes · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$2.2M
Sixteen Thirty Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$2.1M
Accelerate Change · Boston, MA · 2023
general support
$2.0M
Article Iv · Arlington, VA · 2024
Charitable and advocacy activity
$2.0M
Democracyfirst · Evanston, IL · 2024
General support
$2.0M
States United Action · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.8M
The Fairness Project · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.7M
Better Pennsylvania · Mechanicsburg, PA · 2023
general support
$1.6M
Prosperity Michigan Action · Sault Ste Marie, MI · 2023
general support
$1.5M
Americans Against Government Censorship · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$1.5M
American Independent Found · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.5M
Working America Ed Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.4M
Article Iv · Arlington, VA · 2023
general support
$1.3M
North Star Prosperity · St Paul, MN · 2023
general support
$1.3M
The Bench · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$1.2M
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.1M
Public Democracy America · Great Falls, VA · 2023
general support
$1.1M
New Day Nevada · Las Vegas, NV · 2023
general support
$1.1M
Alliance for Youth Action · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.1M
Community Change Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Care in Action · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Ifp Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Rapid Resist Action · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$1.0M
The Pac for Americas Future · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Urban Justice Center · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$1.0M
All Americans Vote · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.0M
American Oversight · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.0M
Civic Nation · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.0M
Courier Newsroom · New York, NY · 2023
general support
$1.0M
Defending Democracy Together · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.0M
Democracy Works · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
general support
$1.0M
House Majority Pac · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.0M
Media Matters for America · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.0M
Moms Rising Together · Bellevue, WA · 2023
general support
$1.0M
Nextgen Climate Action · San Francisco, CA · 2023
general support
$1.0M
Power Rising Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.0M
Reproductive Freedom for All · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.0M
Senate Majority Pac · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$1.0M
The Justice Project · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$900,000
Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$850,000
Lcv Victory Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$800,000
Natl Womens Law Center · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$750,000
Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom · Reno, NV · 2024
General support
$750,000
Fair Future Nc · Raleigh, NC · 2023
general support
$750,000
House Majority Forward · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$750,000
Secure Democracy USA · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$750,000
Supermajority · New York, NY · 2023
general support
$750,000
Way To Win Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$670,000
Fair Future North Carolina · Raleigh, NC · 2024
General support
$630,000
Democratic Future Fund 527 · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$625,000
Advance American Democracy · Wilmington, DE · 2023
general support
$600,000
Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$500,000
Blueprintusa · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$500,000
Rise Action Fund · Sherman Oaks, CA · 2024
General support
$500,000
The American Experiment Fund Inc (P68) · Homestead, FL · 2024
General support
$500,000
The Steady State · Cabin John, MD · 2024
General support
$500,000
The Voter Project · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General support
$500,000
Unrig Our Economy · Wilmington, DE · 2024
General support
$500,000
Worker Power · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
General support
$500,000
A Better Big Sky · Missoula, MT · 2023
general support
$500,000
Clear Choice Action · Boston, MA · 2023
general support
$500,000
Congressional Integrity Proj · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$500,000
Democracyfirst · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$500,000
Environmental Defense Action · New York, NY · 2023
general support
$500,000
Future Now Action · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$500,000
Higher Heights for America · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
general support
$500,000
Nextgen Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023
general support
$500,000
Repower · Saint Paul, MN · 2023
general support
$500,000
The Pac for Americas Future · Washington, DC · 2023
general support
$500,000
United To Protect Democracy · Washington, DC · 2023
general support

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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.