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Cspi Action Fund
Washington, DC · EIN 87-4417685. Reported 30 grants totalling $1,403,345 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Cspi Action Fund, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in food & nutrition (NTEE K01).
- How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 25% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 26% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $17,340 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $330,620. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
10 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $328,904 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church of God of Prophecy Bible | Bronx, NY | $356,112 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Center for Black Health and Equity | Durham, NC | $249,572 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Food Advocates Inc | New York, NY | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bay Area Community Resources | El Cerrito, CA | $83,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sustainable Food Center Inc | Austin, TX | $69,242 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hunger Free Colorado | Denver, CO | $67,340 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| California Immigrant Policy Center | Los Angeles, CA | $58,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Professional Resource Associates LLC | Stockton, CA | $55,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kyfc Keep Your Faith Corporation | Charleston, WV | $51,880 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Parents and Students | Los Angeles, CA | $33,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rhode Island Public Health Foundation Inc | Providence, RI | $31,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mission Edge San Diego | San Diego, CA | $31,177 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hunger Solutions New York Inc | Albany, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maryland State Conference NAACP | Columbia, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Movement Strategy Center | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition | Cleveland, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| DC Greens Inc | Washington, DC | $28,030 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc | Louisville, KY | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest Inc | Lincoln, NE | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Farm to Table Inc | Santa Fe, NM | $16,242 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Momsrising Education Fund | Bellevue, WA | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| A Well-Fed World | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
7 of 22 (32%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Interfaith Public Health Network
COMMUNITY OUTREACH WORK IN SUPPORT OF NUTRIENT WARNING LABEL AND FOOD MARKETING POLICY CAMPAIGNS IN NEW YORK - The Center for Black Health & Equity
CAMPAIGN FOR PASSAGE OF A RESTAURANT MENU SODIUM DISCLOSURE POLICY IN CLEVELAND, OHIO - Community Food Advocates
CAMPAIGNS FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL MEALS FOR ALL AND VALUES-ALIGNED FOOD PURCHASING IN NYS - Bay Area Community Resources
DEVELOP THE POWER OF YOUTH ADVOCATES TO CONDUCT RESEARCH AND MAKE POLICY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO IMPROVE THE FOOD RETAIL LANDSCAPE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA IN CALIFORNIA - Sustainable Food Center
SECURE STATEWIDE SUPPORT AND FUNDING FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS FOR SNAP INCENTIVE PROGRAMS THROUGH LEGISLATION THAT PROMOTES GREATER FOOD ACCESS - California Immigrant Policy Center
FOOD4ALL CAMPAIGN; SNAP POLICY TO ADDRESS FOOD INSECURITY FOR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 22 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | $240,646 | $23,000 |
| 2022 | 10 | $328,904 | $29,015 |
| 2023 | 11 | $833,795 | $40,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
34% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $30,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Cspi Action Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1250 I Street Nw 500, Washington, DC, 20005.
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