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Strategic Victory Fund

Name: Strategic Victory Fund 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.

221
grants reported: $141.9M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $250,000
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

work accountability research registration voter communications democracy

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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

General operating support for state progressive advocacy and communications groups
Battleground state hubs: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina
ProgressNow-affiliated state affiliates and their 501(c)(3) education arms
Ballot-measure and issue campaigns, notably Arizona abortion access
Constituency vote programs: NAACP, APIAVote, AAPI Victory Power Fund
Transfers to affiliated vehicles including Strategic Victory Fund IE PAC

Typical grant

Median check is $250,000, with the middle half between $100,000 and $720,000, but the distribution is extremely top-heavy: the largest grants run $1.9M to $9.7M and all go to state advocacy hubs in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Arizona. Small grants of $25,000 to $100,000 go to secondary states like New Hampshire, Utah, Colorado, and Montana, or to national partners. Giving repeats heavily year over year to the same names, with amounts swinging by cycle (Progress Now Michigan took $9.7M in 2023 and $3.4M in 2024).

Their words

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

“GENERAL SUPPORT”
“ACTION”
“PROGRESS NOW”
“CIVIC ACTION”
“EDUCATION FUND”

Positioning adjacent work

This is a c4-style advocacy funder, not a research funder; frame work as state communications capacity, not scholarship.
Anchor to one of the five core states (WI, MI, PA, NC, MN) rather than a national frame.
A first check here realistically lands at $50,000 to $250,000; the millions go to established hubs.
Partner with or be fiscally hosted by an existing grantee such as A Better Wisconsin Together or Progress NC.

Worth knowing: Every grant is unrestricted general support, and the money is concentrated in a tight federation: roughly a dozen ProgressNow-family and state hub organizations absorb most of the $142M, several sharing the funder's Raleigh base or receiving both c3 and c4 grants. The pattern reads as network- and relationship-driven allocation among affiliated entities, including $3.5M to its own IE PAC in 2023, so cold outreach from an unaffiliated organization has very little precedent here.

Top recipients

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

Progress Now5 grants · $14.9M
Pa Alliance Action16 grants · $13.9M
Together Wisconsin Acts14 grants · $13.8M
A Better Wisconsin Together12 grants · $11.2M
State Victory Action3 grants · $8.5M
Michigan Civic Action5 grants · $6.5M
Progress Michigan10 grants · $6.3M
Progress Nc Action4 grants · $5.7M
Make North Carolina First2 grants · $4.8M
Michigan Civic Action Fund5 grants · $4.8M

Giving over time

$35.0M

2021

$28.3M

2022

$52.6M

2023

$26.0M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 221 grants.

$9.7M
Progress Now · Lansing, MI · 2023
General support
$4.3M
Progress Nc Action · Raleigh, NC · 2023
General support
$4.0M
State Victory Action · Raleigh, NC · 2021
General support
$3.7M
A Better Wisconsin Together · Madison, WI · 2024
General support
$3.5M
Strategic Victory Fund Ie Pac · Raleigh, NC · 2023
General support
$3.4M
Progress Now · Lansing, MI · 2024
General support
$3.3M
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General support
$3.0M
State Victory Action · Raleigh, NC · 2021
State investment contribution
$2.9M
Millions of Michiganians · Lansing, MI · 2023
General support
$2.8M
Make North Carolina First · Raleigh, NC · 2023
General support
$2.8M
A Better Wisconsin Together · Monona, WI · 2023
General support
$2.7M
Together Wisconsin Acts · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
General support
$2.4M
Michigan Civic Action Fund · Madison Heights, MI · 2021
General support and accountability work
$2.2M
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General support
$2.2M
Michigan Civic Action · Madison Heights, MI · 2023
General support
$2.1M
Progress Now Education · Lansing, MI · 2023
General support
$2.1M
Michigan Civic Action · Madison Heights, MI · 2024
General support
$2.0M
Arizona of Abortion Access · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
General support
$2.0M
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
General support and accountability work
$2.0M
Make North Carolina First · Raleigh, NC · 2024
General support
$1.9M
Together Wisconsin Acts · Milwaukee, WI · 2021
General support and accountability work
$1.9M
Together Wisconsin Acts · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
General support
$1.9M
Progress Michigan · Lansing, MI · 2023
General support
$1.9M
Together Wisconsin Acts · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
General support
$1.8M
Together Wisconsin Acts · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
General support
$1.7M
Michigan Civic Action · Madison Heights, MI · 2022
General support
$1.5M
State Victory Action Fund · Raleigh, NC · 2022
General support
$1.5M
Progress Michigan · Lansing, MI · 2021
To support accountability work
$1.5M
State Victory Action · Raleigh, NC · 2021
General support
$1.4M
Commonwealth Communications · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General support
$1.4M
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General support
$1.3M
Progress Now · Lansing, MI · 2022
General support
$1.3M
Win Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2021
General support and accountability work
$1.2M
Progress Nc Action · Raleigh, NC · 2024
General support
$1.1M
A Better Wisconsin Together · Monona, WI · 2022
General support
$1.1M
Project 72 Wi · Shorewood, WI · 2024
General support
$1.1M
Progress Arizona · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
General support
$1.0M
Rally Nc · Raleigh, NC · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Naacp · Baltimore, MD · 2023
General support
$1.0M
A Better Wisconsin Together · Madison, WI · 2021
General support and accountability work
$1.0M
Michigan Civic Action Fund · Madison Heights, MI · 2021
General support
$1.0M
Michigan Civic Action Fund · Madison Heights, MI · 2021
General support and accountability work
$1.0M
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
To support accountability work
$1.0M
Together Wisconsin Acts · Milwaukee, WI · 2021
General support and accountability work
$1.0M
Win Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2021
General support and accountability work
$970,000
Progress Michigan · Lansing, MI · 2024
General support
$940,000
Project 26 Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General support
$900,000
Win Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2024
General support
$900,000
Pa Alliance Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General support
$900,000
State Victory Action Fund · Raleigh, NC · 2023
General support
$800,000
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General support
$800,000
Progress Michigan · Lansing, MI · 2022
General support
$792,000
The Wisco Project · Shorewood, WI · 2024
General support
$750,000
A Better Big Sky · Missoula, MT · 2023
General support
$750,000
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
To support voter registration efforts
$720,000
Rally Nc · Raleigh, NC · 2023
General support
$700,000
State Victory Action Fund · Raleigh, NC · 2022
General support
$687,000
America'S Voice · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$650,000
Liberty Group · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$600,000
A Better Wisconsin Together · Monona, WI · 2022
General support
$600,000
Nc Citizens for Protecting Our Schools · Raleigh, NC · 2022
General support
$600,000
Together Wisconsin Acts · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
General support
$600,000
A Better Wisconsin Together · Madison, WI · 2021
Pro-democracy research and communications work
$595,064
Alliance for a Better Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2023
General support
$584,618
Together Wisconsin · Milwaukee, WI · 2021
To support pro democracy research and communications
$560,000
Together Wisconsin Acts · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
General support
$549,500
Progress Georgia · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General support
$520,000
Project Keystone · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General support
$517,000
Together Wisconsin · Milwaukee, WI · 2021
To support the rural project
$510,000
Blackpac · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$500,000
Naacp Empowerment Programs · Baltimore, MD · 2023
General support
$500,000
Naacp · Baltimore, MD · 2022
General support
$500,000
Progress Now Education · Lansing, MI · 2022
General support
$500,000
State Victory Action Fund · Raleigh, NC · 2022
General support
$500,000
A Better Wisconsin Together · Madison, WI · 2021
General support
$500,000
Battle Born Progress · Las Vegas, NV · 2021
General support and accountability work
$500,000
Nevada Alliance · Las Vegas, NV · 2021
To support voter registration efforts
$500,000
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
To support voter registration efforts
$500,000
Together Wisconsin Acts · Milwaukee, WI · 2021
To support pro democracy research and communications
$450,000
Congressional Integrity Project · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$450,000
Michigan Civic Education Fund · Madison Heights, MI · 2022
General support
$450,000
Together Wiscosin · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
General support
$434,850
Progress Nc · Raleigh, NC · 2023
General support
$400,000
Liberty Group · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$400,000
Michigan Civic Action · Madison Heights, MI · 2022
General support
$400,000
North Carolina Families First · Raleigh, NC · 2022
General support
$400,000
For Our Future Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2021
General support
$400,000
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
General support and accountability work
$392,600
Progress Michigan · Lansing, MI · 2021
For research support
$385,500
Battle Born Progress · Henderson, NV · 2024
General support
$383,500
A Better Wisconsin Together · Madison, WI · 2021
For research support
$383,500
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
For research support
$375,000
Commonwealth Communications · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General support
$360,000
Progress Michigan · Lansing, MI · 2021
General support and accountability work
$350,000
Dna Fund · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
General support
$350,000
Alliance for a Better Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2021
General support and accountability work
$349,500
Middle Fork Strategies · Helena, MT · 2023
General support
$336,000
Family Friendly Action Fund · Concord, NH · 2021
General support and accountability work
$310,000
Pa Alliance Action · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General support
$300,000
Progress Now · Lansing, MI · 2022
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.