MOVEMENT ACTION FUND

As filed

Subsection

04

NTEE code

R99

Classification

3000

Street

PO BOX 1268

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• COMMUNITY AND WORKER ORGANIZING: THIS PROGRAM AREA IS DEDICATED TO STRENGTHENING DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION AND CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE BY SUPPORTING COMMUNITY AND WORKER ORGANIZING EFFORTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THESE EFFORTS ARE ROOTED IN THE BELIEF THAT A VIBRANT DEMOCRACY DEPENDS ON THE ACTIVE AND INFORMED ENGAGEMENT OF ALL ITS PEOPLE. IN 2025, MAF AWARDED GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS ENGAGED IN BUILDING GRASSROOTS POWER AMONG HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING LOW-INCOME WORKERS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES, RESULTING IN INCREASED ADVOCACY FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS.

  Expenses $2,055,953 · Grants $1,300,000

• SECTOR SUPPORT: THIS PROGRAM AREA IS DEDICATED TO PROTECTING AND STRENGTHENING THE NONPROFIT AND PHILANTHROPIC SECTOR AS VITAL PARTS OF CIVIL SOCIETY. MAF WORKS TO ENSURE THAT THE BROADER PHILANTHROPIC INFRASTRUCTURE, UPON WHICH GRANTEES, COMMUNITIES, AND DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEPEND, REMAINS RESILIENT, INDEPENDENT, AND CAPABLE OF SERVING THE PUBLIC GOOD. IN 2025, MAF PROVIDED SUPPORT TO SECTOR-WIDE INITIATIVES AIMED AT DEFENDING PHILANTHROPIC INDEPENDENCE AND SUSTAINING THE FREEDOM OF FOUNDATIONS TO FUND COMMUNITIES AND CAUSES CONSISTENT WITH THEIR CHARITABLE MISSIONS.

  Expenses $387,479 · Grants $100,000

• KNOWLEDGE SHARING (RESEARCH AND CONVENINGS): THIS PROGRAM AREA IS DEDICATED TO FOSTERING CONNECTIONS, SHARING INSIGHTS, AND BRIDGING THE TRADITIONAL SILOS SEPARATING ORGANIZERS, PHILANTHROPIC FUNDERS, AND ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS. IN 2025, MAF DEEPENED ITS CAPACITY TO SUPPORT CROSS-SECTOR CONVENINGS THAT BRING TOGETHER ORGANIZERS, FUNDERS, AND RESEARCHERS TO SHARE STRATEGIES, EVALUATE PROGRESS, AND BUILD A MORE CONNECTED AND EFFECTIVE FIELD. BY FACILITATING THESE CONVENINGS AND RELEVANT RESEARCH, MAF AIMS TO ACCELERATE THE TRANSLATION OF RESEARCH INTO ACTIONABLE ORGANIZING STRATEGIES, ENSURING THAT THEY ARE INFORMED BY ON-THE-GROUND REALITIES AS WELL AS CULTIVATING AN ECOSYSTEM WHERE KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE DRIVES TANGIBLE SOCIAL CHANGE AND SUSTAINED IMPACT.

  Expenses $155,804

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $28,346,663

  Expenses

  $3,211,113

  Contributions

  $27,353,000

  Grants paid

  $1,400,000

• 2024

  Revenue

  $25,791,526

  Expenses

  $1,186,770

  Contributions

  $25,000,000

  Grants paid

  $450,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

• UNITE HERE ACTION FUND

  $1,100,000

  2025 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• WORKER POWER

  $250,000

  2024 · TO INCREASE VOTER PARTICIPATION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR IN MARICOPA AND PIMA COUNTIES.

• INDIVISIBLE PROJECT

  $200,000

  2025 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

  $100,000

  2025 · SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE CAMPAIGN

• MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC

  $50,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S PRIMARY PURPOSE OF BUILDING POWER ROOTED IN WORKING-CLASS LATINE COMMUNITIES, PROMOTING POLICY SOLUTIONS THAT IMPROVE THE LIVES OF ALL WORKING-CLASS AND LOW-INCOME PEOPLE, AND STRENGTHENING THE MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE.

• WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS

  $50,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT THE 2024 MONTANA RURAL VOTERS PROGRAM.

• UNITE HERE ACTION FUND

  $50,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S CANVASS PROGRAM AND RELATED ACTIVITIES.

• PROGRESSIVE ERA PROJECT

  $50,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S CALIFORNIA TABLE FUND, WHICH ENGAGES HISTORICALLY OVERLOOKED COMMUNITIES AND HELPS VOTERS ADDRESS ISSUES WITH THEIR BALLOTS.

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Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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