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Majority Forward
Washington, DC · EIN 83-3690373. Reported 47 grants totalling $312.0M to 36 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 42% 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. 38% 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 $665,000. Half of what it reported fell between $250,000 and $5,500,000; the smallest was $40,000 and the largest $53.8M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $3,418,943 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smp | Washington, DC | $131.4M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| America Votes | Washington, DC | $76.1M | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Duty and Honor | Washington, DC | $27.8M | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Duty and Honor | Washington, DC | $20.3M | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Last Best Place Pac | Washington, DC | $12.5M | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Priorities USA | Washington, DC | $9,004,222 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| North Star | Washington, DC | $7,100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Americans for Secure Future | Chattanooga, TN | $5,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Duty and Country | Washington, DC | $4,050,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Impetus Fund | Washington, DC | $3,418,943 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| 53 Peaks | Washington, DC | $3,013,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc | New York, NY | $1,900,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Americans for Economic Growth | Washington, DC | $1,426,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Lincoln Project | Washington, DC | $1,350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Votevets Action Fund | Portland, OR | $1,175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Save My Country Action Fund | Washington, DC | $665,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Our Future United Pac | Washington, DC | $653,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| End Citizens United-Let America Vote Action Fund | Washington, DC | $505,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Swing Left | Washington, DC | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Emilys List Action | Washington, DC | $465,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Climate Reality Action Fund | Washington, DC | $330,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Black Progressive Action Coalition | Washington, DC | $303,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| 222 Evergreen | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Center | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Montana Hunters and Anglers Action | Billings, MT | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nevada Alliance | Las Vegas, NV | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Protect Your Vote Nevada | Las Vegas, NV | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Preserve American Ideals | Chattanooga, TN | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Planned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund Inc | Burlington, VT | $165,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Equislabs | Washington, DC | $160,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| League of Conservation Voters Inc | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Right to Vote Foundation | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rural America Fund | Sheridan, WY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Strategic Victory Fund | Raleigh, NC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Piedmont Rising Inc | Durham, NC | $140,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Advancing Az | Gilbert, AZ | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
7 of 36 (19%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 9 of 36 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 | 24 | $125.5M | $276,500 |
| 2021 | 8 | $31.3M | $1,045,750 |
| 2022 | 8 | $107.6M | $2,721,500 |
| 2023 | 7 | $47.6M | $4,050,000 |
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
97% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. 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
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.
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 $665,000 -- 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 District of Columbia.
- 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 Majority Forward'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 7 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: 1032 15TH Street Nw 247, Washington, DC, 20005.
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