Rapid Resist Action
Chicago, IL · EIN 82-2476207. Reported 28 grants totalling $4,260,000 to 28 organizations across tax years 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 Rapid Resist Action, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 5% 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 $150,000 and $150,000; the smallest was $150,000 and the largest $210,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contest Every Race Pac | Omaha, NE | $210,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arizona Movement Labs | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arizona Political Innovations | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arizona Progress Incubator | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida Movement Labs | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida Political Innovations | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgia Movement Labs | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgia Progress Incubator | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michigan Movement Labs | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michigan Political Innovations | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michigan Progress Incubator | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Movement Labs Pac | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nevada Movement Labs | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nevada Political Innovations | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nevada Progress Incubator | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Movement Labs | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Political Innovations | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Progress Incubator | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania Movement Labs | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania Political Innovations | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania Progress Incubator | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Political Innovations Pac | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rapid Recruit Pac | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Movement Labs | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Political Innovations | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texting Solutions Pac | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wisconsin Movement Labs | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wisconsin Political Innovations | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
Where its money goes
95% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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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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 $150,000 -- 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 California.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Rapid Resist Action's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 28 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: 2045 W Grand Ave Ste B Pmb 31638, Chicago, IL, 60612.
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