Heising-Simons Action Fund

Our Awards

The Heising-Simons Action Fund, established in 2020, is funded by the Heising-Simons family and is governed by a four-person Board. Awards by the Action Fund include:

Community and Opportunity

— 2020 —

  • Tides Advocacy, for the Fight Back Table Action Fund — $700,000
  • Sixteen Thirty Fund for the Civic Action Fund — $450,000
  • Silicon Valley Rising Action for General Support — $50,000

— 2021 —

  • North Fund for Fair Representation in Redistricting Action Fund — $200,000
  • Silicon Valley Rising Action for general support — $100,000
  • Way to Win Action Fund for general support — $500,000
  • MOVE Texas Action Fund for general support — $300,000
  • Living United for Change in Arizona for general support — $100,000
  • End Citizens United-Let America Vote Action Fund for general support — $100,000

Climate and Clean Energy

— 2020 —

  • Sixteen Thirty Fund for the Climate Equity Action Fund — $500,000
  • Partnership Project Action Fund for General Support — $125,000
  • Advanced Energy Works for General Support — $100,000
  • League of Conservation Voters, Inc. for General Support — $100,000
  • Energy Action Fund for General Support — $200,000
  • Environmental Defense Action Fund for General Support — $500,000
  • NRDC Action Fund for General Support — $500,000

— 2021 —

  • Fund for a Better Future for Climate Power — $2,800,000
  • Partnership Project Action Fund for general support — $300,000
  • Advanced Energy Works for general support — $150,000
  • Solar United Neighbors Action for general support — $100,000
  • BlueGreen Alliance for general support — $100,000
  • Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund, Inc. for general support — $150,000
  • Center for American Progress Action Fund for general support — $300,000
  • Working Families Organization, Inc. for general support — $200,000
  • League of Conservation Voters, Inc. for general support — $250,000
  • NRDC Action Fund Inc. for general support — $300,000
  • Energy Action Fund Inc. for general support — $250,000
  • Sunrise Movement for general support — $250,000
  • Cabinet Action for general support — $35,000
  • Environmental Defense Action Fund for general support — $400,000
  • WE ACT 4 Change Inc. for general support — $150,000
  • Bipartisan Policy Center Action for general support — $300,000

Education

— 2020 —

  • Children Now Action Fund for Planning Phase to Develop a Pro-kid Legislative Scoreboard in California — $25,000
  • National Women’s Law Center Action Fund for General Support — $200,000
  • United for San Joaquin Kid & Community — Yes on Measure X for General Support — $50,000
  • Million Voter Project Action Fund for Voter Engagement in California — $200,000
  • Support our Public Schools for General Support — $50,000
  • Center for American Progress Action Fund for General Support — $800,000
  • Center for Community Change Action for General Support — $500,000
  • Impact Fellow for General Support — $250,000
  • PLUS Action Fund for General Support — $100,000
  • Children’s Funding Accelerator, Inc. for General Support — $250,000

— 2021 —

  • Tides Advocacy for the Building the California Dream Alliance — $100,000
  • Save the Children Action Network for general support — $400,000
  • Moms Rising Together for general support — $400,000
  • Parent Voices Action for General Support — $100,000
  • Children Now Action Fund for the California Pro-Kid Scorecard — $200,000
  • Communities For A New California for general support — $100,000
  • Yes on Santa Cruz Children’s Fund Committee for general support — $25,000
  • Care in Action Inc. for general support — $400,000
  • Impact Fellows Action Fund for general support — $300,000
  • First Five Action Fund for general support — $500,000
  • Children’s Funding Accelerator Inc. for general support — $375,000
  • National Women’s Law Center Action Fund for general support — $200,000
  • Center for Community Change Action for general support — $500,000
  • PLUS Action Fund for general support — $150,000
  • Million Voter Action Fund Sponsored By Social Justice Orgs for general support — $200,000
  • Economic Security Action for general support — $100,000

Human Rights

— 2020 —

  • Tides Advocacy for Smart Justice California — $25,000
  • Tides Advocacy for La Defensa — $100,000
  • Drug Policy Action for Oregon Ballot Measure 110 Work — $150,000
  • No on Prop 25 — Committee Against Pretrial Racism for General Support — $100,000
  • Re-imagine LA, A Coalition of Nonprofits Orgs and Justice Advocates for General Support — $200,000
  • Poder NC Action for General Support — $100,000
  • Free the Vote CA, Yes on Prop 17, Sponsored by Civil and Voting Rights Organizations for Free the Vote CA, Yes on Prop 17 — $100,000
  • New Georgia Project Action Fund, Inc. for General Support — $200,000
  • Carolina Federation for General Support — $100,000
  • Texas Freedom Network for General Support — $100,000
  • Black Voters Matter Fund for General Support — $200,000
  • Move Texas Action Fund for General Support — $100,000
  • Asian American Advocacy Fund, Inc. for General Support — $100,000
  • ColorOfChange.org for General Support — $200,000
  • Forward Justice Action Network for General Support — $100,000
  • Workers Defense Action Fund for General Support — $100,000
  • Californians Against the Prison Spending Scam for Defeating the Cooper Prison Measure (Cooper Initiative) — $375,000

— 2021 —

  • Tides Advocacy for Sister Warriors Action Fund for assistance with Legal, accounting, and compliance needs — $20,000
  • Tides Advocacy for Smart Justice California — $50,000
  • Tides Advocacy for La Defensa — $100,000
  • Tides Advocacy for the Sister Warriors Action Fund — $100,000
  • Tides Advocacy for Chispa for assistance with legal, accounting, and compliance needs — $20,000
  • Tides Advocacy for La Defensa for assistance with legal, accounting, and compliance needs — $20,000
  • Working Families Organization Inc. for United Fort Worth — $200,000
  • Working Families Organization Inc. for United Fort Worth for assistance with legal, accounting, and compliance needs — $20,000
  • Texas Organizing Project for general support — $100,000
  • Working Families Organization Inc. for work in California, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina — $1,200,000
  • New Georgia Project Action Fund Inc. for general support — $200,000
  • NEO Philanthropy Action Fund for the Four Freedoms Action Fund — $200,000
  • New Left Accelerator for capacity building supports and technical assistance to Heising-Simons Action Fund grantees — $400,000
  • Forward Justice Action Network for general support — $100,000
  • Workers Defense Action Fund for general support — $100,000
  • Carolina Federation for assistance with legal, accounting and compliance needs — $20,000
  • Mijente for assistance with legal, accounting and compliance needs — $20,000
  • Poder NC Action for assistance with legal, accounting and compliance needs — $20,000
  • Asian American Advocacy Fund for assistance with legal, accounting and compliance needs — $20,000
  • Poder NC Action for general support — $100,000
  • Carolina Federation for general support — $100,000
  • GLAHR Action Network for assistance with legal, accounting and compliance needs — $20,000
  • Siembra NC for assistance with legal, accounting and compliance needs — $20,000
  • ColorOfChange.org for general support — $250,000
  • Asian American Advocacy Fund, Inc. for general support — $100,000
  • Mijente for general support — $200,000
  • GLAHR Action Network for general support — $50,000
  • Repeal California’s Three Strikes Law Ballot Committee for general support — $250,000
  • NILC Immigrant Justice Fund for federal immigration work — $200,000