Actblue Charities Inc
Boston, MA · EIN 47-3739141. Reported 95 grants totalling $3,834,225 to 86 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Actblue Charities Inc, the IRS classifies it under philanthropy & grantmaking rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE T02) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 86 distinct organizations, with 57% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. 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 $7,500. Half of what it reported fell between $3,097 and $14,992; the smallest was $1,099 and the largest $2,201,263. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Lives Matter Foundation Inc | Oakland, CA | $2,201,263 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Highlander Research & Education Center Inc | New Market, TN | $280,191 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $248,948 | 6 | 1 | 2021 |
| Common Counsel Foundation | Oakland, CA | $165,628 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alliance for Global Justice | Tucson, AZ | $56,206 | 3 | 1 | 2021 |
| N a a C P Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc | New York, NY | $50,188 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Civic Nation | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Power Rising | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colorofchangeorg Education Fund Inc | New York, NY | $35,630 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Minnesota Freedom Fund Inc | St Paul, MN | $35,055 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Community Bond Fund | Chicago, IL | $28,736 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unicorn Riot | Minneapolis, MN | $27,958 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| We the Protesters Inc | New York, NY | $26,834 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catalyst California | Los Angeles, CA | $25,564 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bail Project Inc | Venice, CA | $20,594 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marshall Project Inc | New York, NY | $19,725 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black and Pink Inc | Boston, MA | $18,538 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Massachusetts Bail Fund Inc | Boston, MA | $18,276 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $17,625 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Philadelphia Bail Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $17,528 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Restoring Justice | Houston, TX | $16,942 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwest Community Bail Fund | Spokane, WA | $16,663 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Providence Youth Student Movement | Providence, RI | $15,789 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Entertainment Industry Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $14,066 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Movement Alliance Project | Philadelphia, PA | $14,063 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Bonds Inc | New Haven, CT | $13,487 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Business Coalition for Justice | Richmond, VA | $13,226 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nashville Community Bail Fund | Nashville, TN | $13,177 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Union Theological Seminary | New York, NY | $13,144 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Faith in Texas - Pico | Dallas, TX | $13,012 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fusion Partnerships Inc | Baltimore, MD | $12,903 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chattanoogans in Action for Love Equality and Benevolence | Chattanooga, TN | $12,878 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Just City Inc | Memphis, TN | $12,787 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dauphin County Bail Fund | Harrisburg, PA | $12,770 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Success Initiative Inc | Raleigh, NC | $12,420 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hawaii Community Bail Fund | Honolulu, HI | $12,394 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Forsyth County Community Bail Fund | Winston Salem, NC | $12,340 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media & Education | Portland, OR | $12,293 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operation Restoration | New Orleans, LA | $12,289 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fronterizo Fianza Fund | El Paso, TX | $12,256 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social Justice Center Inc | Madison, WI | $12,117 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peace Resource Center of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $8,856 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Climate Mobilization Project Inc | New York, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| State Voices | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Citizenship Education Fund | Chicago, IL | $7,473 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Prairielands Freedom Fund | Iowa City, IA | $6,760 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Organization for Human Rights and Democracy | Atlanta, GA | $5,763 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Popular Democracy | Washington, DC | $5,556 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Building Audacity | Boston, MA | $5,493 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Groundswell Fund | San Francisco, CA | $5,260 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Louisville Urban League | Louisville, KY | $4,733 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Georgia Project Incorporated | Atlanta, GA | $4,699 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Prison Book Program | Quincy, MA | $4,536 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Austin Justice Coalition | Austin, TX | $4,260 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pure Justice | Houston, TX | $4,052 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Violence in Boston | Hyde Park, MA | $3,956 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beloved Community Church Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $3,787 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Advocates for Just and Moral Governance | San Diego, CA | $3,713 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sirat Chicago | Chicago, IL | $3,697 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Transgender Emergency Fund of Ma Inc | Dorchester, MA | $3,484 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Voices Pittsburgh Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $3,456 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Third World Organizing | Oakland, CA | $3,328 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Emancipate Nc Inc | Durham, NC | $3,097 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| YWCA of Greater Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge, LA | $3,040 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Human Rights Coalition of Alachua County | Gainesville, FL | $2,784 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Transgender Law Center | Oakland, CA | $2,569 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brave Space Alliance | Chicago, IL | $2,439 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law | Washington, DC | $2,393 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arch City Defenders Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $2,206 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Socialists of America | Brooklyn, NY | $2,044 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Data for Black Lives Inc | Miami, FL | $2,011 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| People Organized for Westside Renewal | Los Angeles, CA | $1,867 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Foundation for Social Impact | Little Rock, AR | $1,865 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Holler Health Justice Inc | Charleston, WV | $1,784 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center | Urbana, IL | $1,642 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tulsa Community Foundation | Tulsa, OK | $1,636 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women | Roxbury, MA | $1,552 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Focus Forward Project Inc | New York, NY | $1,468 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The United Church of Christ | Cleveland, OH | $1,414 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Audre Lorde Project Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $1,396 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St James Infirmary | Las Vegas, NV | $1,393 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $1,275 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc | Washington, DC | $1,214 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social Good Fund Inc | Richmond, CA | $1,172 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $1,099 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
0 of 86 (0%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 78 of 86 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 | 90 | $3,711,725 | $8,164 |
| 2022 | 3 | $65,000 | $7,500 |
| 2024 | 2 | $57,500 | $28,750 |
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
71% 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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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $7,500 -- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Actblue Charities Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 2 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: One Boston Place 2603, Boston, MA, 02108.
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