GrantmakersMassachusetts

Pro-Democracy Campaign

Foxborough, MA · EIN 93-2175467. Reported 58 grants totalling $10.5M to 58 organizations across tax years 2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

58organizations funded
$150,000median reported grant
$10.5Mgranted, 2023
6%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Pro-Democracy Campaign, by its IRS classification it provides support services within civil rights (NTEE R19).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 6% 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 big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $150,000. Half of what it reported fell between $100,000 and $250,000; the smallest was $25,000 and the largest $600,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
10 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
31 grants
$250,000 Or More
15 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Make North Carolina FirstRaleigh, NC$600,000112023
Ohio Progressive CollaborativeColumbus, OH$500,000112023
Living United for Change in ArizonaPhoenix, AZ$450,000112023
Rural Arizona ActionCoolidge, AZ$450,000112023
Detroit Action a Project of TidesLos Angeles, CA$400,000112023
Faith in MinnesotaSaint Paul, MN$400,000112023
United for DemocracyFoxborough, MA$392,000112023
Carolina FederationDurham, NC$300,000112023
Down Home North CarolinaGreensboro, NC$300,000112023
Michigan Peoples CampaignDetroit, MI$300,000112023
Pennsylvania VoicePhiladelphia, PA$275,000112023
Make the Road Action Fund IncBrooklyn, NY$250,000112023
Organize PennsylvaniaPittsburgh, PA$250,000112023
Pa Alliance ActionPhiladelphia, PA$250,000112023
Voces De La Frontera Action IncMilwaukee, WI$250,000112023
State Power Action FundYoungstown, OH$225,000112023
Action Together Nepa IncWilkes Barre, PA$200,000112023
Activate 48 IncPhoenix, AZ$200,000112023
Florida Rising IncMiami, FL$200,000112023
Michigan VoicesDetroit, MI$200,000112023
Neo Philanthropy IncNew York, NY$200,000112023
Our Voice Our Vote ArizonaPhoenix, AZ$200,000112023
Power to the PollsWashington, DC$200,000112023
Promote the VoteLansing, MI$200,000112023
Rockefeller Family Fund IncNew York, NY$200,000112023
Unite Here Action FundNew York, NY$200,000112023
America VotesWashington, DC$150,000112023
Beyond ImpactW Hollywood, CA$150,000112023
Black Male Initiative Fund IncFairburn, GA$150,000112023
New Georgia Project Action Fund IncAtlanta, GA$150,000112023
New Pennsylvania ProjectHarrisburg, PA$150,000112023
Pennsylvania Stands Up IncPhiladelphia, PA$150,000112023
Asian Pacific Islander Political Al LiancePhiladelphia, PA$100,000112023
Blueprint North CarolinaDurham, NC$100,000112023
Citizen Action of Wisconsin IncMilwaukee, WI$100,000112023
Count Mi VoteLansing, MI$100,000112023
Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues IncMadison, WI$100,000112023
League of Conservation Voters IncWashington, DC$100,000112023
Mi Familia VotaPhoenix, AZ$100,000112023
Ncaat in ActionRaleigh, NC$100,000112023
New Jersey Working Families AllianceMonmouth Jct, NJ$100,000112023
New Rural ProjectCharlotte, NC$100,000112023
Ohio Organizing CampaignYoungstown, OH$100,000112023
One ArizonaPhoenix, AZ$100,000112023
Power Action FundHarrisburg, PA$100,000112023
Progeorgia State Table IncAtlanta, GA$100,000112023
National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleJackson, MS$75,000112023
Aliento Education FundPhoenix, AZ$50,000112023
Arizona Native VotePhoenix, AZ$50,000112023
Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin IncRiver Falls, WI$50,000112023
Instituto Lab LLCPhoenix, AZ$50,000112023
Law Forward IncMadison, WI$50,000112023
Miigwech IncAlanson, MI$50,000112023
Mississippi Coalition on Black Civic ParticipationJackson, MS$50,000112023
One VoiceJackson, MS$50,000112023
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CA$50,000112023
Committee on StatesRaleigh, NC$25,000112023
Mississippi Votes Action Fund CorporationJackson, MS$25,000112023

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 of 58 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.

Civil Rights
29 orgs
Human Services
5 orgs
Community Improvement
5 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
3 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Education
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org

Where its money goes

16% of its giving went to organizations in Arizona. 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.

Arizona
$1.6M
North Carolina
$1.5M
Pennsylvania
$1.5M
Michigan
$850K
New York
$850K
Ohio
$825K
California
$600K
Wisconsin
$550K

Down to the city

Phoenix, AZ
$1.2M
Philadelphia, PA
$775K
Raleigh, NC
$725K
New York, NY
$600K
Columbus, OH
$500K
Detroit, MI
$500K

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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.

Tides Foundation49 shared recipientsAll Hands on Deck Network Inc36 shared recipientsSixteen Thirty Fund33 shared recipientsTides Advocacy33 shared recipientsAmerica Votes30 shared recipientsOpen Society Action Fund Inc28 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $150,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Arizona.
  4. 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 Pro-Democracy Campaign's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 124 Washington St 101, Foxborough, MA, 02035.

EIN 93-2175467 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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