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FUSE Corps (FUSE)

Website:

www.fuse.org
Location:

San Francisco, CA
Tax ID:

27-5469219
Tax-Exempt Status:

501(c)(3)

Budget (2021):

Revenue: $11,746,562
Expenses: $9,991,514
Assets: $14,198,081
Type:

Equity-based local government consulting group
Founded:

2011
President and COO:

Nancy Gage

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FUSE Corps (FUSE) is a left-of-center equity-based nonprofit that embeds fellows in local governments to promote a left-leaning agenda. FUSE Corps seeks to promote racial equity due to perceived systemic and institutionalized racism.

FUSE seeks to raise the minimum wage, enact carbon neutral housing mandates that in Boston would require 80 percent of buildings to undergo a major retrofit, adopt the Green New Deal, and promote prison reduction through resentencing and bail reforms. FUSE has called for less water consumption, greater recycling efforts, and increased use of electric vehicles with an equity agenda. FUSE is primarily funded through numerous left-of-center nonprofit organizations.

History and Work

FUSE Corps was founded in 2011 by Jennifer Anastasoff, the former head of the U.S. Digital Service at the White House during the Obama administration. 1 FUSE is an executive fellowship-based model working on community-based problem solving by placing individuals in local government agencies. 2 FUSE Corps executive fellows work on projects that advance racial equity. 3 FUSE seeks to change perceived social and economic barriers caused by systemic and institutionalized racism. 4 FUSE states it has worked on over 300 projects in cities and counties across 20 states. 5

FUSE Corps works with local governments to identify local needs and opportunities taking into account racial equity considerations. 6 FUSE works with local officials to search for candidates to lead projects as FUSE fellows for at least a 12-month position. 7 FUSE may extend fellows for a second year of a project if requested by host agencies. 8

Issue Areas

FUSE focuses on six issue areas: health, housing, climate, education, justice, and jobs. 9 Health care work has included expanding access to substance abuse treatment and addressing health care inequities across the country; easing medical debt in Los Angeles County; expanding healthy food programs and addressing racial health inequities in Birmingham, Alabama; addressing “burnout” in the medical profession; promoting equitable long-term COVID response in around the country; and addressing health care needs of seniors. 10

FUSE Corps has sought to deal with housing issues by using racial equity to address homelessness, focusing on affordable housing solutions, developing new funding mechanisms and regional responses to homelessness, diversifying neighborhood revitalizations, and preventing new transit development that would displace residents. 11

FUSE’s left-leaning global warming stance entails using environmental protection as a framework to address issues in local communities. 12 FUSE Corps’ projects include promoting equity in a climate agenda, advocating for electric vehicles over fossil fuels, advancing equity for electric cars, adopting new waste management projects promised to be more environmentally friendly, ensuring sustained water supplies in the West through reduced water consumption and larger efforts to recycle, providing new green energy jobs to people of color, retrofitting housing to be carbon neutral including a plan in Boston that will require 80 percent of buildings to undergo deep retrofits, and ensuring cemeteries are culturally appropriate and environmentally sustainable. 13

FUSE Corps educational efforts include increasing equitable access to broadband services, increasing college affordability for more equitable opportunities, and improving public education. 14 FUSE’s jobs agenda includes policies to raise the minimum wage, designing small business support systems primarily for minority owned businesses, creating quality jobs to further Los Angeles’ Green New Deal, working with cities to create more equitable jobs post-COVID, expanding ways to build wealth in the Black community, launching opportunity zones across the country, using strategic marketing to boost social services, and promoting job creation as a way to achieve growth and equity. 15

FUSE seeks to transform the justice system by reducing reliance on incarceration, examining prison overcrowding and resentencing options for prisoner release, examining and deploying federal funds to combat racial inequities, reducing jail populations through diversion programs, transforming L.A. County into an “anti-racist institution,” supporting bail reform efforts for a more equitable process, and recruiting diverse police forces. 16

Finances

In 2021, FUSE Corps had net assets of $15,837,719. 17 According to the organization’s tax returns, in 2021 FUSE Corps recorded $13,172,227 in revenue and $10,403,373 in expenses. 18 In 2020, FUSE Corps raised $11,746,562 in revenue and reported $9,991,514 in expenses. 19

Funding

Major funding for FUSE Corps has been provided by Ballmer Group, the California Endowment, California Health Care Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Deloitte, Edelman, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Greater New Orleans Foundation, the Heinz Endowments, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Luminate, Missouri Foundation for Health, Omidyar Network, the Rockefeller Foundation, Start Small, the Walton Family Foundation, and Waverly Foundation. 20

Leadership

Nancy Gage is president and COO of FUSE Corps. 21 Prior to joining FUSE, Gage was director of presidential personnel in the Obama Aadministration. 22 Gage previously served as chief of staff for presidential personnel for President Barack Obama. 23 Gage worked for the Obama 2008 presidential campaign as Northeast political director, deputy director for the Democratic National Committee convention, and deputy director for battleground states. 24 Previously, Gage worked as senior advisor to former U.S. Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD).25 Gage has a B.A. in political science from Emory University. 26

References

  1. “Jennifer Anastasoff.” Tech Talent Project. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://techtalentproject.org/about-us/; “Our Story.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/about-us/; “FUSE Corps.” LinkedIn. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.linkedin.com/company/fusecorps/.
  2. “Our Story.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/about-us/; “FUSE Corps.” LinkedIn. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.linkedin.com/company/fusecorps/.
  3. “FUSE Corps.” LinkedIn. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.linkedin.com/company/fusecorps/.
  4. “FUSE Corps.” LinkedIn. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.linkedin.com/company/fusecorps/.
  5. “Our Work.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/our-work/.
  6. “The FUSE Model.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/our-model/.
  7. “The FUSE Model.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/our-model/.
  8. “The FUSE Model.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/our-model/.
  9. “Our Story.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/about-us/.
  10. “Health.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/issue-areas/public-health/.
  11. “Housing.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/issue-areas/housing-homelessness/.
  12. “Putting People First: How Environmental Justice is Shaping Local Governments’ Climate Agenda Strategies.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/blog/putting-people-first-how-environmental-justice-is-shaping-local-governments-climate-action-strategies/.
  13. “Climate.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/issue-areas/climate-resilience/; “Sustainable Land Use In Cemeteries.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/projects/sustainable-land-use-in-cemeteries/.
  14. “Education.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25,2023. https://fuse.org/issue-areas/education-youth/.
  15. “Jobs.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/issue-areas/workforce-jobs/. “Education.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25,2023. https://fuse.org/issue-areas/education-youth/.
  16. “Justice.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/issue-areas/justice-reform/.
  17. FUSE Corps, Return of a Nonprofit Corporation (Form 990), 2021.
  18. FUSE Corps, Return of a Nonprofit Corporation (Form 990), 2021.
  19. FUSE Corps, Return of a Nonprofit Corporation (Form 990), 2020.
  20. [1] “Our Funders and Supporters.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/funders-and-supporters/; “FUSE Corps.” Ford Foundation. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/grants-database/fuse-corps-138720/; “FUSE Corps.” Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/grants-database/fuse-corps-138720/; “FUSE Corps.” Heinz Endowments. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.heinz.org/grants/grants-approved; “FUSE Corps.” William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://hewlett.org/grants/fuse-corps-for-support-for-the-equitable-recovery-initiative/; “FUSE Corps.” The James Irvine Foundation. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.irvine.org/our-grants/search-grants-awarded/?grant_search=FUSE+Corps; “FUSE Corps.” Luminate. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.luminategroup.com/investee/fuse-corps; “FUSE Corps.” Rockefeller Foundation. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/fuse-corps-2021-4/; “FUSE Corps.” Start Small. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://startsmall.llc/#list; “FUSE Corps.” Walton Family Foundation. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/grants-database?q=FUSE+Corps&s=1.
  21. “Nancy Gage.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/our-team/?uid=3949.
  22. “Nancy Gage.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/our-team/?uid=3949.
  23. “Nancy Gage.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/our-team/?uid=3949.
  24. “Nancy Gage.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/our-team/?uid=3949.
  25. “Nancy Gage.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/our-team/?uid=3949.
  26. “Nancy Gage.” FUSE Corps. Accessed August 25, 2023. https://fuse.org/our-team/?uid=3949.
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Nonprofit Information

  • Accounting Period: September - August
  • Tax Exemption Received: January 1, 2013

    • Available Filings

    Period Form Type Total revenue Total functional expenses Total assets (EOY) Total liabilities (EOY) Unrelated business income? Total contributions Program service revenue Investment income Comp. of current officers, directors, etc. Form 990
    2021 Sep Form 990 $11,746,562 $9,991,514 $14,198,081 $1,129,216 N $7,899,426 $3,803,414 $8,419 $632,176 PDF
    2020 Sep Form 990 $16,923,475 $8,823,060 $12,340,029 $1,026,212 N $11,815,699 $5,085,298 $20,353 $430,803 PDF
    2019 Sep Form 990 $9,001,990 $9,508,910 $4,146,005 $932,603 N $3,179,800 $5,792,500 $29,690 $401,469 PDF
    2018 Sep Form 990 $8,047,977 $7,074,923 $4,235,811 $515,489 N $3,005,175 $5,036,314 $6,488 $606,458 PDF
    2017 Sep Form 990 $4,972,659 $3,848,888 $3,897,937 $1,150,669 N $2,478,875 $2,493,087 $197 $133,010 PDF
    2016 Dec Form 990 $3,054,694 $2,844,829 $2,149,023 $525,526 N $1,400,900 $1,653,794 $0 $370,137 PDF
    2015 Dec Form 990 $1,731,246 $1,381,900 $1,638,999 $225,367 N $1,287,350 $443,896 $0 $329,925 PDF
    2014 Dec Form 990 $1,977,610 $931,254 $1,131,730 $67,444 N $1,938,082 $0 $0 $182,436 PDF
    2013 Dec Form 990 $299,726 $281,796 $25,628 $7,698 N $299,726 $0 $0 $32,500 PDF

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