Fair Fight Action Inc
Atlanta, GA · EIN 47-1427359. Reported 65 grants totalling $12.1M to 57 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 Fair Fight Action Inc, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 45% 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. 12% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 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 $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $100,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $3,782,500. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Democracy America | Great Falls, VA | $5,476,900 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Black Progressive Action Coalition | Washington, DC | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fair Count Inc | Atlanta, GA | $750,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Opportunity Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $744,680 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hopewell Fund | Washington, DC | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for New Data | Sacramento, CA | $463,710 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Public Education Matters Georgia Ac | Atlanta, GA | $306,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Arizona Advocacy Network Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $292,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Georgia Project Action Fund | Atlanta, GA | $145,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Defend Democracy Now Inc | Tampa, FL | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Democracy 21 | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| For West Virginias Future Inc | Myra, WV | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Womens Law Center Action Fund | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgia Legislative Black Caucus Inc | Atlanta, GA | $93,750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Alliance for a Better Arkansas Inc | Little Rock, AR | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $65,864 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Coalition for Good Governance | Charlotte, NC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Black Male Voter Project Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Georgia Equality Inc | Atlanta, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Georgia First Inc | Flowery Br, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Youth Justice Coalition for | Roswell, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Move Texas Action Fund | San Antonio, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Voter Registration Project | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Common Cause | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Working Families Organization Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Organization for Human Rights and Democracy | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| People for the American Way | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Naral Pro-Choice America | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates Inc | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sister Song Inc | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern Center for Human Rights | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgia Harm Reduction Coalition Inc | Atlanta, GA | $17,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Highlander Research & Education Center Inc | New Market, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Transforming Georgia | Lithonia, GA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 1000 Women Strong | Tallahassee, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Deep Center Incorporated | Savannah, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Giving Kitchen Initiative Inc | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alabama Association for the Arts | Huntsville, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Going Back to Give Back Inc | Evans, GA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Living in Purpose Inc | Grovetown, GA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kendrick Johnson Foundation Inc | Valdosta, GA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Savannah a Phillip Randolph Institute | Savannah, GA | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Network for Strong Communities Inc | Atlanta, GA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 100 Black Men Southeast Georgia | Blackshear, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc | Atlanta, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Church Girls Inc | Kingsland, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feeding the Valley Inc | Midland, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Filmore Thomas Park | Macon, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First African Baptist Church Brunsw | Brunswick, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Augustas Interfaith Coaliti | Augusta, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Higher Heights for America | Brooklyn, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Liberty County Manna House | Hinesville, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lowndes Valdosta Commission for Children & Youth Inc | Valdosta, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Middle Georgia Community Food Bank Inc | Macon, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sams Memorial Community Partnership for Social Economic Develop Inc | Darien, GA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
7 of 57 (12%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Public Democracy America Inc
GENERAL SUPPORT EDUCATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 of 57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | $4,312,460 | $76,875 |
| 2021 | 22 | $2,332,080 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 15 | $4,579,500 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | $786,764 | $57,364 |
| 2024 | 15 | $127,000 | $1,000 |
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
45% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. 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 $20,000 -- 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 Virginia.
- 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 Fair Fight Action Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1270 Caroline Street D120-430, Atlanta, GA, 30307.
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