Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund
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About Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund
The Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund primarily supports grassroots civic engagement and movement-building organizations—especially Bay Area-based immigrant, Asian American, and racial justice groups—by funding organizational capacity, leadership development, and narrative/civic education work. Their grants favor direct-action and community-led groups, fiscal sponsors, and infrastructure projects that strengthen local and statewide civic participation and progressive policy campaigns.
Focus Areas
Chinese and Asian American community organizing and leadership development (e.g., Chinese Progressive Association, Asian Americans United)Grassroots civic engagement and voter/civic education infrastructure (e.g., Watering Hole Media Action, State Voices, Nakasec)Black and multiracial racial justice organizing and narrative change (e.g., Anti-Police Terror Project, Black Organizing Project, Race Forward)Regional economic and workplace justice in the Bay Area and California (e.g., Working Partnerships USA, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy)Support for fiscal sponsors and movement infrastructure/technical assistance (e.g., Tides Center, Tides Advocacy)
About Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund
A standout recent grant was $495,000 to Watering Hole Media Action for community education and outreach, which captures how the Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund uses larger awards to support civic infrastructure. The funder backs grassroots organizing, civic education, leadership development, and narrative work, with repeated support for Chinese and Asian American community organizations, racial justice groups, and movement infrastructure. Its recent grants also show steady support for Bay Area-based groups working on organizational development, training, and local campaign capacity. The Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund gives at a meaningful scale: annual grants totaled $3,928,174, and recent awards range from smaller project grants to six-figure commitments. In the recent-grants list, Chinese Progressive Association appears multiple times across 2023–2025, including support for a Chinese Narrative Hub project and general support, while Working Partnerships USA received repeated programmatic grants tied to organizational development and leadership training. The pattern points to a funder that combines general support with targeted project funding and infrastructure support for organizations engaged in civic participation, racial justice, and community-led policy work.
What Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund Funds
Chinese and Asian American organizing is one clear thread. The funder gave $303,379 to Chinese Progressive Association in 2025 for a Chinese Narrative Hub project and general support, and also funded the organization in San Francisco with $185,000 in 2023 for programmatic grants including SF Rising organizational development and leadership training. Asian American civic engagement also appears in grants such as $53,000 to Asian Americans United for civic engagement and capacity building. Racial justice and narrative work is another area. The funder awarded $225,000 to Anti-police Terror Project in 2024 for Refunding Communities Narrative, and $75,000 to Black Organizing Project in 2024 for strengthening core organizing work. Civic engagement infrastructure shows up in grants to Nakasec for civic engagement program support and to State Democracy Project for its fiscally sponsored Frontline Election Defenders project.
How Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1.6M
Total Assets
$30.6M
Total Revenue
$24.4M
Total Expenses
$16.8M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $20K and $144K, with a median of $42K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$42K
75th Percentile
$144K
Geographic Reach
Regional13 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Alex Tom
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