The Atlantic Advocacy Fund is a Delaware-based left-of-center 501(c)(4) pass-through nonprofit associated with Atlantic Philanthropies, a Bermuda-based foundation which makes grants in the United States.
Funding
Between 2007 and 2015, Atlantic Philanthropy’s 501(c)(4) Atlantic Advocacy Fund provided a series of grants toward several Tides Advocacy projects and policy initiatives, totaling $42,617,750 (a number provided by Atlantic Philanthropies based on conversion rates of different currencies into U.S. dollars at the time of grant disbursement). 1
| Atlantic Advocacy Fund Grants to Tides Advocacy Projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| Projects and Initiatives | Grants | Descriptions |
| Alliance for Citizenship | $5,950,000 | “To support advocacy work to secure comprehensive immigration reform” |
| Vote Safe: Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act | $850,000 | “To enact sentencing reform in California through a ballot initiative that would reduce incarceration levels and penalties for low-level crimes and thereby improve the criminal justice system” |
| Fund for Fair and Just Policing | $2,200,000 | “To reform the stop and frisk practices of the New York Police Department by winning the appeals of the End Discriminatory Profiling Act and the Floyd and Ligon v the City of New York court decisions and by implementing the court-ordered Joint Remedial Process” |
| Reform Immigration For America (RIFA) | $5,000,000 | “To use Reform Immigration for America’s online grassroots organizing capacity to ensure policymakers at the state and federal levels are attuned to Latino voting power and its immigration policy objectives” |
| National Latino Engagement Action Fund | $700,000 | “To advance a strategy that increases Latino voter registration and mobilization” |
| Social Security Works | $100,000 | “To organize a pledge campaign to hold members of U.S. Congress and candidates accountable to low-income families on Social Security reform” |
| Supporting State Strategies to Abolish the Death Penalty | $3,353,000 | “To nurture and advance state campaigns to abolish the death penalty around the US by providing resources to a donor collaborative fund for regranting to state campaigns” |
| Environment and Climate Action Fund | $2,500,000 | “To support advocacy efforts for climate, energy, and other environmental policy reform” |
| Enacting Immigration Reform | $3,500,000 | “To provide continued support (support for 2010 campaign) for the federal campaign to reform immigration policy” |
| Keeping Social Security’s Promise | $2,700,000 | “To ensure the protection of Social Security benefits for low- and moderate-income older adults, children and families through Strengthen Social Security, an aggressive, time-limited national campaign directed at the President, federal lawmakers and members of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility” |
| Voter Engagement Technology | $250,000 | “To support citizen engagement technology and technical assistance to assist policy campaigns and civic participation efforts” |
| Social Security Policy Planning | $200,000 | “To explore the possibility of a consensus for Social Security reform” |
| Voting Modernization/Universal Voter Registration | $250,000 | “To promote federal legislation that would shift the burden to state governments to affirmatively add voters to the voting rolls by assembling existing lists rather than placing the burden on individual voters” |
| Social Security Reform Campaign to Protect Low-Income Individuals | $1,555,000 | “Towards Phase I (Activate Preparation) - To support a campaign focusing attention on the needs of low-income individuals in the forthcoming reform of Social Security” |
| Four Pillars Campaign for Immigration Reform | $5,259,750 | Field and Policy Pillars: “To support the strategic field and policy components of the federal effort to enact immigration reform by establishing a regranting and technical capacity delivery fund” |
| We Are America Alliance Action Fund | $5,750,000 | “To empower immigrant communities throughout the U.S. through support for a collaborative citizenship and voter registration initiative” |
| Eldercare Workforce Alliance | $1,000,000 | “To implement the Institute of Medicine report on workforce issues for an ageing America by activating a broad-based coalition to advocate for public policy changes” |
| Total: | $42,617,750 | |
Grants from Atlantic Advocacy Fund
The following are grants from the Atlantic Advocacy Fund: 2
| Year | Recipient Name | Grant Amount | Grant Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Center for Democracy in the Americas | $80,000 | To provide general operating support to to the Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA) for its core activities and collaboration with the Cuba Platform. |
| 2018 | Civic Participation Action Fund | $1,270,000 | To create an independent, 501 (c ) (4) fund to provide ongoing support for several of Atlantic's longstanding U.S. advocacy objectives and to build greater capacity for raising and effectively using (c ) (4) funds for social change in the future. |
| 2018 | New Futures Fund Inc | $75,000 | To support mobile-based civic engagement with African-Americans. |
| 2017 | Bronx Museum of the Arts | $107,850 | To support the creation of a replica of the Jose Marti sculpture in Central Park to be donated for permanent display in Havana. |
| 2017 | The Advocacy Fund | $600,000 | To advance coordinated efforts to repeal the death penalty in the United States by supporting the priorities of the death penalty abolition campaign. |
| 2017 | Fund for Reconciliation and Development | $30,000 | To strengthen awareness and connections between US and Cuba citizens. |
| 2017 | New Futures Fund Inc | $275,000 | To support mobile-based civic engagement with African Americans. |
| 2017 | Civic Participation Action Fund | $2,409,750 | To create an independent, 501 (c ) (4) fund to provide ongoing support for several of Atlantic's longstanding U.S. advocacy objectives and to build greater capacity for raising and effectively using (c ) (4) funds for social change in the future. |
| 2016 | Alliance for Retired Americans | $300,000 | To protect the adequacy and sustainability of Social Security and improve benefits for low-income disadvantaged beneficiaries by contributing fact-based information, advocacy and a sustainable and broad-based coalition to influence future Social Security reform debates. |
| 2016 | Bend the Arc Jewish Action | $2,000,000 | To facilitate long-term care solutions at the federal and state levels by 2020 through the development and implementation of narrative and culture change, state-level civic engagement and policy, and a fellowship program to engage caregivers as leaders in the campaign. |
| 2016 | Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partership for Justice | $1,000,000 | To facilitate long-term care solutions at the federal level by 2020 through the development and implementation of narrative and culture change, state-level civic engagement and policy, and a fellowship program to engage caregivers as leaders in the campaign. |
| 2016 | Center for Democracy in the Americas | $75,000 | To provide general operating support to continue its strategic, focused activities to restore diplomatic relations and increase cooperation between the United States and Cuba. |
| 2016 | Center for Democracy in the Americas | $2,000,000 | To expose Atlantic Fellows to Cuba's challenges and successes by developing opportunities for active for active participation and knowledge exchange in the areas of health equity, food security, socio-economic inequality and issues of race and gender. |
| 2016 | Center for Inter-American Legal Education | $50,000 | To support the education of Cuban lawyers in aspects of U.S. law relevant to their representation of Cuban interests in commerical and related dealings with the United States. |
| 2016 | Civic Participation Action Fund | $425,000 | To create and disseminate case studies focused on 501 ( c ) (4) - funded policy change and fundraising to advance the Civic Participation Action Fund's program objectives and strengthen democracy. |
| 2016 | Civic Participation Action Fund | $8,520,250 | To create an independent, 501 (c ) (4) fund to provide ongoing support for several of Atlantic's longstanding US advocacy objectives and to build greater capacity for raising and effectively using ( c) (4) funds for social change in the future. |
| 2016 | First Focus Campaign for Children, Inc. | $500,000 | To protect and expand health coverage for children and youth through sucessful implementation of the Affordanble Care Act and reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program. |
| 2016 | Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba | $50,000 | To develop a legal / policy brief outlining the benefits to both the US and Cuba of increased health cooperation. |
| 2016 | Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba | $50,000 | To demonstrate how innovative Cuban biopharmaceutical products could positively impact the health and well-being of Americans. |
| 2016 | National Senior Citizens Law Center | $250,000 | To improve access to quality health care for low-income older adults through strategic litigation, policy analysis, legislative and administrative advocacy and professional training. |
| 2016 | Proteus Action League | $1,500,000 | To advance coordinated efforts to repeal the death penalty in the United States by supporting the priorities, infrastructure, and fundraising needs of the death penalty abolition campaign. |
| 2016 | The Sentencing Project | $75,000 | To promote a fair and effective criminal justice system by addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, working for reforms in sentencing policy and advocating for alternatives to incarceration. |
| 2016 | Washington Office on Latin America | $28,000 | To support development of a memorandum recommending key actions the Obama White House can take to normalize US-Cuba relations. |
| 2015 | Proteus Action League | $4,500,000 | To advance coordinated efforts to repeal the death penalty in the United States by supporting the priorities, infrastructure, and fundraising needs of the death penalty abolition campaign. |
| 2015 | Community Catalyst Action Fund | $1,197,178 | To support the Center for Consumer and Community Engagement and national advocacy communications on health system transformation issues affecting low-income, chronically ill and other vulnerable people. |
| 2015 | Center for International Policy | $7,500 | To support for an event celebrating recent U.S.-Cuba policy changes and to use that event to expand media attention and momentum surrounding these and future changes. |
| 2015 | Brookings Institution | $20,000 | To support a half-day conference, "Rethinking Cuba: New Challenges for Development," featuring economists from Cuba, to evaulate its evolving economy in light of the significant changes underway in the US-Cuba relationship. |
| 2015 | The Advocacy Fund | $450,000 | To preserve the gains in the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and to support transition to a reviesed and more sustainable coalition leadership model. |
| 2015 | Washington Office on Latin America | $75,000 | To continue to improve prospects for closure of Guantanamo Bay detention center and improve US-Cuba policy by engaging Latin American governments to accept Guantanamo Bay prisoners. |
| 2015 | Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partership | $2,000,000 | To facilitate long-term care solutions at the federal level by 2020 through the development and implementation of narrative and culture change, state-level civic engagement and policy, and a fellowship program to engage caregivers as leaders in the campaign. |
| 2015 | Social Science Research Council | $33,000 | To support a two-day meeting for US-based foundations to learn more about funding Cuba-related activities. |
| 2015 | Bronx Museum of the Arts | $20,000 | To support the project coordinator position for the Museum's project to create a replica of the Jose Marti sculpture in Central Park to be donated for permanent display in Havana. |
| 2015 | Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty | $250,000 | To repeal the death penalty in Kansas by supporting a comprehensive legislative campaign. |
| 2015 | Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable | $300,000 | To repeal the death penalty in Colorado by supporting a comprehensive legislative campaign. |
| 2015 | First Focus Campaign for Children, Inc. | $300,000 | To protect and expand health coverage for children and youth through sucessful implementation of the Affordanble Care Act and reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program. |
| 2015 | The Sentencing Project | $75,000 | To promote a fair and effective criminal justice system by addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, working for reforms in sentencing policy and advocating for alternatives to incarceration. |
| 2015 | Alliance for Retired Americans | $150,000 | To protect the adequacy and sustainability of Social Security and improve benefits for low-income disadvantaged beneficiaries by contributing fact-based information, advocacy and a sustainable and broad-based coalition to influence future Social Security reform debates. |
| 2015 | Civic Participation Action Fund | $33,200,000 | To create an independent, 501 (c ) (4) fund to provide ongoing support for several of Atlantics longstanding US advocacy objectives and to build greater capacity for raising and effectively using ( c) (4) funds for social change in the future. |
| 2015 | Human Rights First | $500,000 | To increase civil liberties protections by supporting the Law and Security programme objectives and the organisation's sustainability. |
| 2015 | Physicians for Human Rights | $100,000 | To use the unique voice of medical professionals in helping to reform counterterrorism policies that undermine U.S. national security. |
| 2015 | National Senior Citizens Law | $200,000 | To improve access to quality health care for low-income older adults through strategic litigation, policy analysis, legislative and administrative advocacy and professional training. |
| 2015 | Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights | $75,000 | To support the National Immigrant Justice Center's efforts to restore and uphold the due-process protections of immigrants through strategic litigation. |
| 2014 | United States Department of Education | $74,000 | To support a national summit of state leaders and advocates on school discipline reform. |
| 2014 | Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty | $450,000 | To repeal the death penalty in Kansas by supporting a comprehensive legislative campaign. |
| 2014 | Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable | $400,000 | To repeal the death penalty in Colorado by supporting a comprehensive legislative campaign. |
| 2014 | ACLU of Washington | $600,000 | To repeal the death penalty in Washington state by supporting a comprehensive legislative campaign. |
| 2014 | First Focus Campaign for Children, Inc. | $1,900,000 | To protect and expand health coverage for children and youth through sucessful implementation of the Affordanble Care Act and reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program. |
| 2014 | Engage Texas | $800,000 | To build a sustainable, statewide infrastructure for health insurance coverage for children and youth in Texas. |
| 2014 | Children Now | $950,000 | To build a sustainable, statewide infrastructure for health insurance coverage for children and youth in California. |
| 2014 | America's Voice | $1,000,000 | To secure momentum for the eventual passage of federal immigration reform legislation by supporting a national media narrative that affirms the relationship between growing Latino electorate and the public demand for immigration reform. |
| 2014 | The Sentencing Project | $300,000 | To promote a fair and effective criminal justice system by addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, working for reforms in sentencing policy and advocating for alternatives to incarceration. |
| 2014 | Alliance for Retired Americans | $1,305,000 | To protect the adequacy and sustainability of Social Security and improve benefits for low-income disadvantaged beneficiaries by contributing fact-based information, advocacy and a sustainable and broad-based coalition to influence future Social Security reform debates. |
| 2014 | Partnership for a New American Economy Action Fund | $500,000 | To support the passage of federal immigration reform through 2014 Latino civic engagement. |
| 2014 | Sixteen Thirty Fund | $650,000 | To safeguard the political pressure necessary for the eventual passage of federal immigration reform by demonstrating Latino voters can sustain electoral impact in a non-presidential election year. |
| 2014 | Oregon Justice Resource Center | $600,000 | To support work to abolish the death penalty in Oregon. |
| 2014 | The Advocacy Fund | $600,000 | To enact sentencing reform in California through a ballot initiative that would reduce incarceration levels and penalties for low-level crimes and thereby improve the criminal justice system. |
| 2014 | Center for Community Change Action | $750,000 | To support the eventual passage of federal immigration reform through immigrant rights led civic engagement and voter turnout during the 2014 mid-term election cycle. |
| 2014 | Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law | $90,000 | To strengthen the sustainability of the four Elev8 sites by providing federal policy advocacy and communications support, including coordinating and convening policy engagements, developing opportunities for media exposure, and producing issue briefs and other documents to influence policy change. |
| 2014 | Latino Victory Project | $400,000 | To support comprehensive immigration reform through Latino civic engagement. |
| 2014 | Center for International Policy | $35,000 | To support an initiative to negotiate the release of Alan Gross. |
| 2014 | Cuba Study Group | $76,000 | To support the Cuba Study Group in its comprehensive rollout of advocacy programming to change US- Cuba policy. |
| 2014 | Cuba Now | $250,000 | To support Cuba Now, a 501 ( c ) (4) advocacy organisation in its mission to amplify the diverse voices calling for change to US-Cuba policy and relations. |
| 2014 | Atlantic Council of the United States | $192,300 | To support a Gallup poll on Cuban's attitude toward US-Cuba policy. |
| 2014 | Washington Office on Latin America | $50,000 | To support efforts to engage Latin American governments to relocate prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre who have been cleared to leave the facility, a significant step towards closing Guantanamo and change in US-Cuba policy. |
| 2014 | Cuba Research Group, a project of Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba | $15,000 | To support the Cuba Research Group to develop a paper exploring the impact of the US-Cuba regulatory restrictions on contacts and exchanges related to health care. |
| 2014 | Washington Office on Latin America | $30,000 | To support the research and writing of a document outlining the impact of the US-Cuba policy. |
| 2014 | Beyond Conflict | $24,150 | To support efforts to develop a white paper and and facilitate discussions that provide a historical perspective on U.S. negotiations with adversarial governments. |
| 2014 | PICO Action Fund | $250,000 | To support advocacy of a ballot measure in Oakland California that would provide long-term public revenue for improving educational and long-term employment outcomes low income youth of color and expand and diversify the health care work force. |
| 2014 | Center for Democracy in the Americas | $150,000 | To support the Center's US-Cuba policy work on Capitol Hill. |
| 2014 | Columbia University - School of Journalism | $125,000 | To increase media coverage and better inform reporting US-Cuba policy by supporting a multi-day conference for journalists on a wide range of beats connected to Cuba and Cuba policy. |
| 2014 | The Advocacy Fund | $250,000 | To enact sentencing reform in California through a ballot initiative that would reduce incarceration levels and penalties for low-level crimes and improve the criminal justice system. |
| 2014 | Washington Office on Latin America | $35,000 | To improve prospects for closure of Guantanamo Bay detention center and improve US-Cuba policy by engaging Latin American governments to accept Guantanamo Bay prisoners. |
| 2014 | Civic Participation Action Fund | $4,600,000 | To create an independent, 501 (c ) (4) fund to provide ongoing support for several of Atlantics longstanding US advocacy objectives and to build greater capacity for raising and effectively using ( c) (4) funds for social welfare in the future. |
| 2014 | National Immigration Forum Action Fund | $200,000 | To increase public support for the Presidents Executive Order on Immigration and to urge Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation by elevating diverse voices of the center right. |
| 2014 | America's Voice | $300,000 | To shape the narrative in support of President Obamas executive order on immigration and to strengthen support in the long term for comprehensive immgration reform legislation. |
| 2014 | National Security Archive Fund | $12,000 | To support the National Security Archive as it sustains the momentum of the publication "Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana" and continues to play a key role of influence in the dynamic discussion over US-Cuba policy. |
| 2014 | Equal Justice USA | $338,735 | To strengthen state death penalty repeal campaigns by providing strategic assistance in policy, organising, and communication work. |
| 2014 | Proteus Action League | $200,000 | To advance efforts to repeal the death penalty nationwide. |
| 2014 | Human Rights First | $200,000 | To increase civil liberties protections by supporting the Law and Security programme objectives and the organisation's sustainability. |
| 2014 | Physicians for Human Rights | $100,000 | To use the unique voice of medical professionals in helping to reform counterterrorism policies that undermine U.S. national security. |
| 2014 | Campaign for Community Change | $200,000 | To advance economic security for low-income older adults by expanding and ensuring sustainability of a training program of local advocates to counter factual inaccuracies in the debate over the long-term adequacy and sustainability of Social Security. |
| 2014 | National Senior Citizens Law | $100,000 | To improve access to quality health care for low-income older adults through strategic litigation, policy analysis, legislative and administrative advocacy and professional training. |
| 2014 | Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights | $225,000 | To support the National Immigrant Justice Center's efforts to restore and uphold the due-process protections of immigrants through strategic litigation. |
| 2014 | Latino Victory Project | $600,000 | To support comprehensive immigration reform through Latino civic engagement, recruitment of Latino candidates and fundraising. |
| 2014 | Campaign for Community Change | $50,000 | To increase political pressure for the passage and implementation of federal immigration reform by mobilising Latino voters and key allies during the 2014 mid-term election cycle. |
| 2014 | Human Rights Watch | $225,000 | To end abusive counterterrorism policies that undermine US national security. |
| 2014 | ACLU Foundation of Montana | $40,566 | To support a state legislative campaign to abolish the death penalty in Montana by 2013 and to advance the goals of the Abolition 2025 campaign, which aim to eliminate the death penalty in the US by the year 2025. |
| 2014 | Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty | $36,528 | To repeal the death penalty in Kansas by supporting a legislative campaign. |
| 2014 | Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty | $58,915 | To repeal the death penalty in Colorado by supporting a legislative campaign. |
| 2014 | Campaign for Community Change | $250,000 | To provide core support to advocate for policy change on issues such as immigration reform, the strengthening and protection of Social Security, and the promotion of economic policies that benefit the poor and middle class. |
| 2014 | Proteus Action League | $400,000 | To support the Security and Rights Action Fund, a pooled fund that support human rights organisations working to protect civil liberties through grassroots advocacy, field building, and joint communications. |
| 2014 | Alliance for Retired Americans | $500,000 | To advance economic security for low-income older adults by training local advocates to counter factural inaccuracies in the debate over the long-term adequacy and sustainability of Social Security. |
| 2013 | National Immigration Law Center - Immigrant Justice Fund | $375,000 | To secure broad immigration reform, including a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants, through a coordinated legislative campaign. |
| 2013 | Equal Justice USA | $1,311,265 | To strengthen state death penalty repeal campaigns by providing strategic assistance in policy, organising, and communication work. |
| 2013 | Proteus Action League | $6,800,000 | To advance the efforts to repeal the death penalty nationwide. |
| 2013 | Human Rights First | $1,600,000 | To increase civil liberties protections by supporting the Law and Security programme objectives and the organisation's sustainability. |
| 2013 | Physicians for Human Rights | $200,000 | To use the unique voice of medical professionals in helping to reform counterterrorism policies that undermine U.S. national security. |
| 2013 | The Advocacy Fund | $2,200,000 | To reform the stop and frisk practices of the New York Police Department by winning the appeals of the End Discriminatory Profiling and the Floyd and Ligon v the City of New York court decisions and by implementing the court-ordered Joint Remedial Process. |
| 2013 | Community Catalyst Action Fund | $2,000,000 | To support health care delivery system and payment reforms at the state and local levels through the Affordable Care Act Implementation Fund. |
| 2013 | NYS Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children | $50,000 | To disseminate and build support for reccomendations to reduce suspensions, arrests, and expulsion in the New York City's public schools from the NYC School's Justice Task Force: Keeping Kids in School and Out of Court. |
| 2013 | Campaign for Community Change | $575,000 | To advance economic security for low-income older adults by expanding and ensuring sustainability of a training program of local advocates to counter factual inaccuracies in the debate over the long-term adequacy and sustainability of Social Security. |
| 2013 | National Senior Citizens Law | $1,200,000 | To improve access to quality health care for low-income older adults through strategic litigation, policy analysis, legislative and administrative advocacy and professional training. |
| 2013 | Heartland Alliance for Human Needs | $200,000 | To support the National Immigrant Justice Center's efforts to restore and uphold the due-process protections of immigrants through strategic litigation. |
| 2013 | Hispanics in Philanthropy | $250,000 | To support general operations and its Cuba Initiative. |
| 2013 | Citizens for a Better Arizona | $200,000 | To secure successful passage and implementation of federal immigration reform by reinforcing increased Latino civic engagment in Arizona through support of voter registration, protection, education and turnout efforts. |
| 2013 | Campaign for Community Change | $150,000 | To increase political pressure for the passage and implementation of federal immigration reform by mobilising Latino voters and key allies during the 2014 mid-term election cycle. |
| 2013 | Herndon Alliance | $75,000 | To provide coordinated and strategic communications support to health justice advocates seeking to improve the publics understanding of and support for the health care delivery system reforms and other provisions of the Affordable Care Act. |
| 2013 | Atlantic Council of the United States | $88,500 | To support the commissioning of a poll to review Americans attitudes on Cuba and publicise its findings as a central component in an effort to influence policy reform on Cuba. |
| 2013 | Latin America Working Group Education Fund | $25,000 | To bring moderate Cuban-American voices into shaping U.S. policy by providing the financial resources to transition from a grassroots network to a 501 (c ) (3) educational organisation. |
| 2013 | Latin America Working Group | $150,000 | To develop and implement a comprehensive advocacy campaign designed to improve existing policies on Cuba. |
| 2013 | Americas Society / Council of the Americas | $50,000 | To support the collaborative think-tank, the Cuba Working Group, the promote entrepreneurship in Cuba and to position Washington policy to suport Cuba's market transititon and improve political relations between the two countries. |
| 2013 | Florida International University Foundation - School of Hospitality Management | $20,000 | To support a public opinion / civic engagement poll to frame Cuban-American political interests in a broader context. |
| 2013 | The Advocacy Fund | $1,700,000 | To provide start-up funding for the Alliance for Citizenship in support of broad immigration reform, including a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants. |
| 2013 | Campaign for Community Change | $200,000 | To secure national immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship by mobilising Latino voters, key allies and civic leaders to exert pressure on Arizona's imporant congressional delegation. |
| 2013 | Citizens for a Better Arizona | $225,000 | To put pressure on Congress to pass immigration reform by providing a tangible state-level example of Latino electoral strength. |
| 2013 | The Advocacy Fund | $1,800,000 | To support advocacy work to secure comprehensive immigration reform. |
| 2013 | America's Voice | $1,300,000 | To provide rapid-response communications support for advocacy campaigns seeking to pass comprehensive immigration reform. |
| 2013 | America's Voice | $1,100,000 | To provide rapid-response communications support for advocacy campaigns to pass comprehensive immigration reform. |
| 2013 | Gamaliel Faith and Democracy | $300,000 | To secure the passage of an immigration reform bil in the US House of Representatives by using faith-based mobilisation to win and maintain the support of Republican Congressional members. |
| 2013 | New York Communities for Change | $100,000 | To pursue enactment of the Community Safety Act. |
| 2013 | Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights | $200,000 | To engage civil rights community in legislative advocacy to increase bipartisan backing for immigration reform in the Senate and House. |
| 2013 | PICO Action Fund | $200,000 | To secure a sucessful immigration reform bill in Congress by using field organising to win the support of eight key federal elected officials in Florida and Colorado. |
| 2013 | The Advocacy Fund | $2,000,000 | To support the Alliance for Citizenship for advocacy to secure comprehensive immigration reform. |
| 2013 | ACLU Foundation of Montana | $59,434 | To support a state legislative campaign to abolish the death penalty in Montana by 2013 and to advance the goals of the Abolition 2025 campaign, which aim to eliminate the death penalty in the US by the year 2025. |
| 2013 | Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty | $63,472 | To repeal the death penalty in Kansas by supporting a legislative campaign. |
| 2013 | Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty | $41,085 | To repeal the death penalty in Colorado by supporting a legislative campaign. |
| 2013 | Proteus Action League | $600,000 | To support the Security and Rights Action Fund, a pooled fund that support human rights organisations working to protect civil liberties through grassroots advocacy, field building, and joint communications. |
| 2013 | America's Voice | $150,000 | To deliver a national media narrative that affirms the relationship between immigration reform and the Latino vote. |
| 2013 | Alliance for Retired Americans | $1,000,000 | To advance economic security low-income older adults by training local advocates to counter factual inaccuracies in the debate over the long-term adequacy and sustainability of Social Security. |
| 2012 | Human Rights Watch | $525,000 | To end abusive counterterrorism policies that undermine US national security. |
| 2012 | Proteus Action League | $500,000 | To support a collaborative grantmaking initiative designed to empower local communities of color to challenge structural racism and injustice. |
| 2012 | National Day Laborer Organizing | $200,000 | To support a southern United States advocacy campaign to significantly limit discrimination and rights abuses of immigrants at the state level. |
| 2012 | ACLU Foundation of Montana | $350,000 | To support a state legislative campaign to abolish the death penalty in Montana by 2013 and to advance the goals of the Abolition 2012 campaign, which aim to eliminate the death penalty in the US by the year 2025. |
| 2012 | Kansas Coalition Against the Death | $475,000 | To repeal the death penalty in Kansas by supporting a legislative campaign. |
| 2012 | Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty | $590,000 | To repeal the death penalty in Colorado by supporting a legislative campaign. |
| 2012 | Center for Democracy in the Americas | $100,000 | To support efforts that advocate for the reform of U.S. policy toward Cuba, leading to normalisation of relations between the two countries. |
| 2012 | Campaign for Community Change | $2,000,000 | To provide core support to advocate for policy change on issues such as immigration reform, the strengthening and protection of Social Security, and the promotion of economic policies that benefit the poor and middle class. |
| 2012 | Proteus Action League | $800,000 | To support the Security and Rights Action Fund, a pooled fund that support human rights organisations working to protect civil liberties through grassroots advocacy, field building, and joint communication. |
| 2012 | Taxpayers for Public Safety Sponsored by a Coalition of Justice | $1,000,000 | To support the SAFE California Campaign, a ballot initiative to replace the death penalty with life without parole that will go before the state's voters on 6 November 2012. |
| 2012 | Christopher Reynolds Foundation | $750,000 | To support efforts to bring change in US-Cuba policy, including health care, the environment, and economic reform. |
| 2012 | America's Voice | $650,000 | To deliver a national media narrative that affirms the relationship between immigration reform and the Latino vote. |
| 2012 | Brave New Films | $200,000 | To increase the Latino vote, in collaboration with effective national, regional and local partnerships, by creating media to promote Spanish-language voter registration and Get Out The Vote activity. |
| 2012 | The Advocacy Fund | $700,000 | To advance a strategy that increases Latino voter registration and mobilisation. |
| 2012 | New Organizing Institute | $100,000 | To support training of immigrant rights advocates, especially DREAM Act advocates. |
| 2012 | Center for Civic Action | $400,000 | To advance immigration reform by increasing Latino voter mobilisation. |
| 2012 | Colorado Immigrant Rights | $400,000 | To advance immigration reform by increasing Latino voter mobilisation. |
| 2012 | Campaign for Community Change | $300,000 | To advance immigration reform by increasing Latino voter mobilisation. |
| 2012 | The Advocacy Fund | $500,000 | To use Reform Immigration for America's online grassroots organising capacity to ensure policymakers at the state and federal levels are attuned to Latino voting power and its immigration policy objectives. |
| 2012 | Alliance for Retired Americans | $500,000 | To advance economic security for low-income older adults by training local advocates to counter factural inaccuracies in the debate over the long-term adequacy and sustainability of Social Security. |
| 2012 | Regents of the University of California at Berkley | $175,000 | To advance federal immigration policy reform in 2013 by informing the public and journalists of research findings and analysis of 2012 Latino voter turnout results. |
| 2012 | Public Interest Projects Action | $1,802,500 | To support the State Capacity and Innovation Fund to build national, in-state and individual donor collaboration for civic engagement and capacity building investments at the state level. |
| 2012 | Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership | $300,000 | To increase the civic engagement of older adults, their family members and caregivers to improve the quality of care for older adults and to expand and improve opportunities for the caregivers. |
| 2012 | American Civil Liberties Union | $450,000 | To support litigation, advocacy and public education efforts to stop harmful anti-immigrant measures at the state level. |
| 2011 | America Votes | $800,000 | To assist in providing access to sophisticated technology and tools to civic engagement organisations operating in 15 staates. |
| 2011 | American Civil Liberties Union | $450,000 | To support litigation, advocacy, and public education efforts to stop harmful anti-immigrant measures at the state level. |
| 2011 | Campaign for America's Future | $2,450,000 | To support Social Security Works effort to educate the public and expand grassroots engagement on Social Security and related policy issues, including Medicare and Medicaid. |
| 2011 | ColorofChange.org | $1,500,000 | To combine technology and digitial media with traditional methods of civic engagement with the goal of increasing civic engagement of marginalised constituencies. |
| 2011 | Jewish Funds for Justice | $450,000 | To increase the civic engagement of older adults, their family members and caregivers to improve the quality of care for older adults and to expand and improve opportunities for the caregivers. |
| 2011 | New Jersey Working Families | $44,158 | To prove one-time support for its Middlesex County Leadership Development project. |
| 2011 | Planned Parenthood Action Fund | $400,000 | To fund a communications and public policy campaign in response to propose cuts in federal funding women health care and Planned Parenthood clinics. |
| 2011 | Public Interest Projects Action | $2,197,500 | To support the State Capacity and Innovation Fund to build national, in-state and individual donor collaboration for civic engagement and capacity building investments at the state level. |
| 2011 | State Voices | $1,500,000 | To support state-based civic engagement efforts by providing access to data and tools, capacity building support, and a co-ordinating infrastructure that facilitates year-round activities. |
| 2011 | The Advocacy Fund | $1,500,000 | To support a campaign for police accountability in New York City. |
| 2011 | Working America | $1,500,000 | To support civic engagement efforts of marginalised communities, including older Americans, to participate in key policy debates such as implementing and defending health care reform, strengthening Social Security, and promoting job creation. |
| 2010 | America Votes | $1,000,000 | To assist in its efforts to provide access to advocacy tools to progressive, social justice and grasroots organizations. |
| 2010 | America Votes | $200,000 | To support civic engagement activities. |
| 2010 | Analyst Institute | $200,000 | To support a set of small donor fundraising experiemnts that would provide detailed information on online small donor fundraising and prospecting. |
| 2010 | Campaign for Community Change | $500,000 | To conduct a pilot project to test the impacts of various approaches in registering progressive Latino voters. |
| 2010 | Campaign for Community Change | $500,000 | To build the power of local, state and national low-income and marginalized communities to influence national policy and to enhance the broader social justice organizing infrastructure. |
| 2010 | Campaign For Community Change | $1,000,000 | To build the power of local, state and national low-income and marginalized communities to influence national policy and to enhance the broader social justice organizing infrastructure. |
| 2010 | Catalist | $1,000,000 | To provide Atlantic grantees with access to a nationwide comprehensive voter file. |
| 2010 | Center for Democracy in the Americas | $150,000 | To support the efforts of CDA and the Cuba Coalition, a group of core US-Cuba policy organizations, to end the travel ban on all U.S. citizens and champion efforts to begin normalizing relations with Cuba. |
| 2010 | Democracia Ahora | $250,000 | To support a donor collaborative of Latino leaders. |
| 2010 | Every Child Matters Education Fund | $250,000 | To highlight children and youth issues by supporting a non-partisan public education campaign during the 2008 presidential election cycle. |
| 2010 | FACE: Vote for Dignity | $250,000 | To support civic engagement by African-American and Caribbean-America communities. |
| 2010 | FairDistricts Now, Inc. | $250,000 | To support reform efforts to establish constitutional rules that would stop politicans from drawing districts to favor themselves. |
| 2010 | First Focus Campaign for Children, Inc. | $300,000 | To elevate the visibility of children's issues and engage voters during the 2010 elections. |
| 2010 | Food Research and Action Center | $325,000 | To support FRAC's advocacy efforts on behalf of low-income famlies and children by providing general operating support. |
| 2010 | Food Research and Action Center | $600,000 | To support FRAC's advocacy efforts on behalf of low-income familiies and children by providing general operating support. |
| 2010 | Latin America Working Group | $90,000 | To support the group's efforts to end restrictions on travel to Cuba for US citizens. |
| 2010 | Latin America Working Group | $95,000 | To expand outreach and activities to mobilise grassroots and grasstops organisations to support passage of pending legislation in Congress and to support advocacy efforts for a White House Executive Order to end U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba. |
| 2010 | Leadership Conference on Civil Rights | $150,000 | To provide capacity building support to utilise the collective strength of its more than 200 civil and human rights member organizations to promote a social justice agenda through national policy, field and communications campaigns. In addition to provide support to broaden and diversify the individuals and organisations involved at the state and local levels to advance the Campaign for Better Care. |
| 2010 | Leadership Conference on Civil Rights | $150,000 | To provide capacity building support to utilise the collective strength of its more than 200 civil and human rights member organizations to promote a social justice agenda through national policy, field and communications campaigns. In addition to provide support to broaden and diversify the individuals and organisations involved at the state and local levels to advance the Campaign for Better Care. |
| 2010 | Lexington Institute | $35,000 | To support the Institute's efforts to end restrictions on travel to Cuba for U.S. citizens. |
| 2010 | Media Matters Action Network | $450,000 | To launch a rapid response media capability for countering misinformation and obstructive rhetoric about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (health reform law) and to contribute to a more favorable environment for implementing key provisions of the act that will improve the lives of vulnerable people of all ages. |
| 2010 | New America Foundation | $100,000 | To continue its organisational and coalition activities to end the travel ban on all U.S. citizens and champion efforts to begin normalising relations with Cuba. |
| 2010 | New Progressive Network | $100,000 | To support civic engagement by young people. |
| 2010 | PowerPAC | $150,000 | To support this campaign 2 October 2010 mobilisation and ongoing collaborations of leading civil rights and labor organisations as part of the One Nation initiative. |
| 2010 | Project New West | $50,000 | To provide access to extensive research on the changing demographics and messaging necessary to mobilise under-represented communities in the West, Southwest and Texas. |
| 2010 | Proteus Action League | $875,000 | To continue the advancement of the Death Penalty Abolition 2025 Campaign by providing support for this re-granting fund. |
| 2010 | Proteus Action League | $600,000 | To address structural causes of racial injustice by providing re-granting funds to support grassroots organisations engaged in community-based advocacy work, and to build the racial justice field through connecting and convening local, regional, and national organisations to share and disseminate best practices and research findings. |
| 2010 | The Advocacy Fund | $1,059,250 | To support the strategic field and policy components of the federal effort to enact immigration reform by establishing a regranting and technical capacity delivery fund. |
| 2010 | The Advocacy Fund | $400,000 | To implement the Institute of Medicine report on workforce issues for an ageing America by activating broad-based coaltion to advocate for public policy changes. |
| 2010 | The Advocacy Fund | $1,500,000 | To advance reforms to the US immigration system by supporting the Reform Immigration for America Campaign. |
| 2010 | The Advocacy Fund | $100,000 | To organise a pledge campaign to hold members of U.S. Congress and candidates accountable to low-income families on Social Security reform. |
| 2010 | The Advocacy Fund | $500,000 | To advance reforms to the U.S. immigration system by supporting the Reform Immigration for America Campaign. |
| 2010 | The Advocacy Fund | $2,700,000 | To ensure the protection of Social Security benefits for low- and moderate-income older adults, children, and families through Strengthen Social Security, an aggressive, time-limited national campaign directed at the President, federal lawmakers, and members of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility. |
| 2010 | The Advocacy Fund | $470,000 | To deepend and expand state and local capacity to end capital punishment in America. |
| 2010 | The Advocacy Fund | $500,000 | To advance reforms to the U.S. immigration system by supporting the Reform Immigration for America Campaign. |
| 2010 | The Hispanic Institute Advocacy | $100,000 | To support civic engagement in Hispanic communities. |
| 2010 | Voices for America's Children | $1,000,000 | To influence national and state policy for children and families by strengthening and enhancing the coordination between Voices' national office and state and local members. |
| 2010 | Vote Kids | $200,000 | To complete its work in the 2010 elections promoting better policies for children. |
| 2010 | Vote Yes for Oregon | $100,000 | To support a campaign to protect funding for education, health care, and public safety in Oregon. |
| 2010 | Washington Office on Latin America | $50,000 | To support efforts to end the Cuban travel restrictions imposed on US Citizens. |
| 2010 | Center for Democracy in the Americas | $69,500 | To expand media outreach and communications activities to support passage of pending legislation in Congress, and to provide for advocacy efforts for a White House Executive Order to remove U.S. restrictions on travel to Cuba. |
| 2010 | Christopher Reynolds Foundation | $25,000 | To provide quick and flexible funding for strategic projects that will amplify the impact of US-Cuba policy grantees work to end the travel ban on all U.S. citizens and begin normalising relations with Cuba. |
| 2010 | Christopher Reynolds Foundation | $25,000 | To provide funding for strategic projects that will amplify the impact of U.S.-Cuba policy grantees work to end all restrictions on travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens and being normalising relations with Cuba. |
| 2010 | Christopher Reynolds Foundation | $40,000 | To provide small grants to support the Cuba Coalition, a group of core U.S.- Cuba policy organisations working to end U.S. restrictions on travel to Cuba. |
| 2010 | ColorofChange.org | $100,000 | To provide online support for civic engagement activities. |
| 2009 | Center for American Progress Action | $500,000 | To support a joint project with Media Matters Action Network to ensure that media coverage of key progressive priorities is fair, accurate, complete and free of misinformation. |
| 2009 | Health Care for America Now | $3,000,000 | To support HCAN's work in the first quarter of 2009 to achieve affordable, quality health care. |
| 2009 | Christopher Reynolds Foundation | $450,000 | To support a live coalition of five policy organizations working to change U.S.-Cuba policy. |
| 2009 | Center for American Progress Action | $419,000 | To inform the anticipated debate over health reform legislation in 2009 by developing and employing health policy and syntheses. |
| 2009 | Tides Advocacy Fund | $5,259,750 | To support the strategic field and policy components of the federal effort to enact immigration reform by establishing a regranting and technical capacity delivery fund. |
| 2009 | Californians for Children's Health | $100,000 | To achieve universal childrens coverage in California through the 2010 ballot initiative or other means. |
| 2009 | America United for Change | $200,000 | To promote passage of progressive Budget Resolution for FY 2010 Federal Budget. |
| 2009 | Sixteen Thirty Fund | $340,000 | To promote passage of progressive Budget Resolution for FY 2010 Federal Budget. |
| 2009 | Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $375,000 | To continue litigation at the state and federal levels to protect women's reproductive health. |
| 2009 | Policy Link | $500,000 | To build the infrastructure of equity organizations to advocate for sustained attention to equity, particularly in federal stimulus investments, through work on th American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. |
| 2009 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $500,000 | To build coalitions between community organizations and organized labor to advocate for policies that use stimulus money to deepen equity and citizen engagement while reducing the carbon emissions in marginalized communities. |
| 2009 | New Organizing Institute | $250,000 | To build on the sophisticated grassroots organizing efforts employed in the 2008 elections campaigns. NOI will contribute to the grassroots organizing infrastructure with a focus on innovations in online organizing and technology by: training other organizations. |
| 2009 | Citizen Engagement Laboratory | $350,000 | To create a network of overlapping constituencies that serve as distribution channels for calls to action and progressive messages. |
| 2009 | Tides Advocacy Fund | $250,000 | To support citizen engagement technology and technical assistance to help policy campaigns and civic participation efforts. |
| 2009 | Communities for Quality | $250,000 | To support Communities for Quality Education's advocacy efforts to build better public schools, including its work in Maine to defeat restrictive spending measure, the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. |
| 2009 | Sixteen Thirty Fund | $1,000,000 | To foster collaboration between dozens of organizations representing millions of supporters by coordinating strategic public education. |
| 2009 | Tides Advocacy Fund | $250,000 | To promote federal legislation that would shift the burden to state governments to to affirmatively add voters to the voting rolls by assembling existing lists rather than placing the burden on individual voters. |
| 2009 | Campaign for Community Change | $3,750,000 | To create an infrastructure that can push from the bottom up for policy change at the federal level in 2009 and beyond; and to bring the voice of low-income people and people of color into national focus. |
| 2009 | Christopher Reynolds Foundation | $500,000 | To provide general operating support to policy and grassroots organizations working to change U.S.- Cuba policy. |
| 2008 | Voices for America's Children | $3,000,000 | To influence national and state policy for children and families by strengthening and enhancing the coordination between Voices' national office and state and local members. |
| 2008 | Tides Advocacy Fund | $1,000,000 | To implement the Institute of Medicine report on workforce issues for an ageing America by activating broad-based coaltion to advocate for public policy changes. |
| 2008 | Tides Advocacy Fund | $750,000 | To empower immigrant communities throughout the US through support for a collaborative citizenship and voter registration initiative. |
| 2008 | Tides Advocacy Fund | $5,000,000 | To empower immigrant communities throughout the US through support for a collaborative citizenship and voter registration initiative. |
| 2008 | Food Research & Action Center | $2,750,000 | To support FRAC's advocacy efforts on behalf of low-income familiies and children by providing general operating support. |
| 2008 | American Civil Liberties Union | $335,000 | To conduct a strong statewide grassroots and media campaign in support of Montana's anti-death penalty campaign during the 2009 legislative session. |
| 2008 | US Action | $250,000 | To ensure quality health care for all americans, by supporting the planning phase of this two year health care advocacy campaign. |
| 2008 | America's Voice | $1,000,000 | To support the implementation of a strategic plan for reforming US immigration policies by providing core support to America's Voice. |
| 2008 | Health Care for America Now | $10,000,000 | To support Health Care for America Now in building and launching a multi-tiered advocacy campaign to achieve affordable, quality health care coverage for all in the US by demanding that all candidates for Congress and President address this issue. |
| 2008 | Proteus Action League | $132,709 | For Proteus to design and manage a convening of key advocates to discuss and develop collaborative strategies for a rights-centered national seucrity in the next Administration. |
| 2008 | Center for American Progress | $184,000 | To develop and employ health policy analyses and syntheses to make health care coverage a priority issue in 2008. |
| 2008 | Vote Kids | $400,000 | To close the child investment gap by building support for child- and youth-friendly federal legislation. |
| 2008 | Christopher Reynolds Foundation | $12,500 | To identify and advise Atlantic about potential grantees focusing on nonpartisan voter registration, get out the vote, and polling activities; to engage in limited grantmaking to organizations focusing on U.S. -Cuba policy. |
| 2008 | Florida Immigration Coalition | $170,000 | To support non-partisan voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts in South Florida. |
| 2008 | Families USA Foundation, Inc | $250,000 | To place health care reform at the top of the action agenda of the next President and Congress through the formation of a non partisan coalition. |
| 2008 | Every Child Matters | $1,000,000 | To highlight children and youth issues by supporting a non-partisan public education campaign during the 2008 presidential election cycle. |
| 2008 | Center for American Progress Action | $250,000 | To develop and employ health policy anslyses and synthesis to make health care coverage a priority issues in 2008. |
| 2007 | Every Child Matters Education Fund | $2,000,000 | |
| 2007 | Tides Advocacy Fund | $1,953,000 | |
| 2007 | M & R Strategic Services | $100,000 | |
| 2007 | Children Now | $100,000 | |
| 2007 | Campaign For Community Change | $2,500,000 | |
| Total: | $211,669,345 |
References
- “The Advocacy Fund: Atlantic Philanthropies.” Atlantic Philanthropies. Accessed June 8, 2020. https://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/grantees/the-advocacy-fund.
- Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Atlantic Advocacy Fund.