Economic Security Project Action Inc
New York, NY · EIN 83-2050594. Reported 50 grants totalling $3,369,039 to 42 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 Economic Security Project Action Inc, the IRS classifies it under public & societal benefit rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE W05) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 14% 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. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 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 $37,500. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $7,700 and the largest $482,279. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economic Security Project Inc | New York, NY | $482,279 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Initiative for Medicines Access &knowledge I-Mak Inc | Lewes, DE | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Institute for Local Self Reliance Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tech Oversight Project | Washington, DC | $170,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United for Respect | Sacramento, CA | $156,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fight for the Future Inc | Boston, MA | $155,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| P Street | Washington, DC | $135,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United States Public Interest Research Group Inc | Denver, CO | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New York Immigration Coalition Inc | New York, NY | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Action Center on Race and the Economy | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Farm Action | Mexico, MO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fight Corporate Monopolies | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Policylink | Oakland, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| PREP4ALL | Brooklyn, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United for Respect Education Fund | Sacramento, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Economic and Policy Research | Washington, DC | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Baratunde Bureaucracy Corporation | Los Angeles, CA | $79,560 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Earth | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Young Farmers Coalition | Hudson, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Freedom Virginia Inc | Richmond, VA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mecep Action | Augusta, ME | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washington State Budget and Policy Center | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania Policy Center | Harrisburg, PA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| DC Fiscal Policy Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Empire State Voices Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Momsrising Together | Bellevue, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Jersey Policy Perspective Inc | Trenton, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Revolution | Chattanooga, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maine Peoples Alliance | Portland, ME | $21,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fuse Washington | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York Communities for Change Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest Inc | Lincoln, NE | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oregon Center for Public Policy | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Illinois Immigrant Action | Chicago, IL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice | Honolulu, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Make the Road Action Fund Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our Power | Portland, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| America Family Voices | Washington, DC | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc | Boston, MA | $7,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
6 of 42 (14%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- Ilsr
ILSR IS COMMITTED TO REVERSING THE CONCENTRATION OF ECONOMIC POWER AND TRANSITIONING TO AN ECONOMY THAT EMBODIES DEMOCRATIC VALUES. OUR PRIMARY GOALS ARE TO EXPAND PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE THREAT THAT CONCENTRATION POSES TO THE ECONOMY AND DEMOCRACY; ADVANCE POLICY SOLUTIONS; AND BUILD THE POLITICAL PRESSURE NEEDED TO WIN. WITH THIS GRANT, ILSR WILL ENHANCE THE POWERFUL ROLE THAT INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES CAN PLAY IN THE GROWING MOVEMENT TO REINVIGORATE ANTI-MONOPOLY POLICIES AND REDUCE CORPORATE CONCENTRATION. - I-Mak
WE ARE IN A ONCE-IN-A-GENERATION MOMENT TO CREATE LONG-TERM STRUCTURAL CHANGE TO ADDRESS CORPORATE CONCENTRATION IN PATENTS, THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY, AND BEYOND. THE SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF A DRUG PRICING CRISIS, A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, AND A RACIAL AWAKENING HAS PRIMED A PUBLIC DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY ACCESS TO MEDICINES/VACCINES FOR EQUITY AND POLITICIANS TO FUNDAMENTALLY SHIFT THE STRUCTURES THAT ALLOW CORPORATIONS TO EXTEND AND EXPAND THEIR MONOPOLIES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS GRANT IS TO CREATE THE ENVIRONMENT FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE THAT PRIORITIZES EQUITY ACROSS OUR PATENT AND MEDICINES SYSTEMS BY UPLEVELING OUR COMMUNICATIONS, EDUCATION, AND PARTNERSHIP EFFORTS THAT HAVE BEEN KEY TO BUILDING POLITICAL SUPPORT - BOTH INSIDE THE HALLS OF CONGRESS AND BEYOND. WE WILL ACCOMPLISH THIS BY USING OUR NEARLY TWO DECADES OF EXPERIENCE IN DEEP ANALYTICAL RESEARCH AND STAKEHOLDER INFORMED COLLABORATION TO ACTIVATE KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND BE A VOICE IN THE MEDIA TO CENTER THE NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON EQUI - United for Respect
WE HAVE 7 TARGETED MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO WHOM WE WOULD LIKE TO DO 250 PATCH-THROUGH CALLS. WE HAVE A GREAT WORKING GROUP OF POLICY EXPERTS AND 5 HILL-FOCUSED STAFF FROM OUR MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. WE ARE MOBILIZING HILL MEETINGS, SPEAKING AT BRIEFINGS, RESPONDING ON TWITTER AND OTHER PLATFORMS, AND ACTIVATING THE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WE'VE TRAINED ON ANTIMONOPOLY WITH YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF, AMONG OTHER RAPID RESPONSE EFFORTS. BUT WE NEED TO DO MORE. AND THIS GRANT IS FOR ATHENA TO CREATE WIDESPREAD, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT TO SUPPORT FIRST-IN-A-GENERATION ANTI-MONOPOLY ENFORCEMENT AND LEGISLATION AT THE FEDERAL AND STATE LEVEL. ATHENA DOES THIS BY CAMPAIGNING ALONGSIDE LEADING ANTI-MONOPOLY ADVOCATES AND SUPPORTING GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS TO TAKE UP ANTI-MONOPOLY EFFORTS ALONGSIDE THEIR EXISTING WORK. - Fight for the Future Inc
FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE SEEKS FUNDING IN ORDER TO TAKE ON A RAPID-RESPONSE "CAMPAIGN SPRINT," WITH THE GOAL OF PASSING THE PACKAGE OF ANTITRUST BILLS TARGETING BIG TECH THROUGH THE HOUSE AND SENATE THIS YEAR. - The Tech Oversight Project
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE TECH OVERSIGHT PROJECT (TOP) IS TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC DIALOGUE AND LAWMAKERS' POSITIONS AND ACTIONS DURING THE ONGOING DEBATE OVER ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION POLICIES, IN ORDER TO HAVE MEANINGFUL ANTITRUST LEGISLATION PASSED DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE 117TH CONGRESS. TOP WILL COMPLEMENT, AMPLIFY, AND ACCELERATE THE WORK DONE BY THE MANY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STAKEHOLDERS OF THE ANTI-MONOPOLY SPACE. - United States Public Interest Research Group Inc
THE GOAL OF OUR RIGHT TO REPAIR CAMPAIGN IS TO GIVE EVERYONE ACCESS TO THE PARTS, TOOLS, AND SERVICE INFORMATION THEY NEED TO REPAIR PRODUCTS SO WE CAN KEEP THINGS IN USE AND REDUCE WASTE, AND TO BUILD A CULTURE WHICH SEEKS TO REPAIR THINGS. THE RIGHT TO REPAIR MOVEMENT GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT OUR THROWAWAY CULTURE AND THE COMPANIES WHO PROFIT FROM THAT SYSTEM, AND EMPOWER PEOPLE TO CHART A MORE SUSTAINABLE PATH. U.S. PIRG RIGHT TO REPAIR CAMPAIGN SEEKS TO DIRECTLY CONFRONT BOTH THE THROWAWAY MINDSET, AND THE POLICY ENVIRONMENT WHICH CULTIVATES THAT MINDSET. WE RUN A RANGE OF CONGRESSIONAL, STATE LEGISLATIVE, CORPORATE AND REGULATORY EFFORTS TO REDUCE MANUFACTURER-IMPOSED BARRIERS TO REPAIR, ORGANIZE THE FIELD OF INTEREST REPAIR TECHNICIANS AND EDUCATORS, AND EMPOWER THE REPAIR ECOSYSTEM.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 42 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 | 19 | $1,911,560 | $100,000 |
| 2022 | 7 | $225,000 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $252,500 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 12 | $979,979 | $47,500 |
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
25% 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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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 $37,500 -- 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 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 Economic Security Project Action 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 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 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: 228 Park Ave S Pmb 32482, New York, NY, 10003.
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