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Political Candidate & Ballot Endorsements

01 Political Candidate & Ballot Endorsements · 11 edit slice
4
orgs
11
activities
1
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 4 organizations and 11 activities — CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL, CATCH FIRE MOVEMENT, OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA, ARIZONA LOCAL POST and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (75%) and California (25%). The field's most common shared approach is "Progressive Candidate Endorsement", run by 1 orgs.
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL and CATCH FIRE MOVEMENT hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
pull-quote · for funders
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 75% · 3 orgs
California 25% · 1 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 4

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

Arnold Ventures 1
Foundation
Google News Initiative 1
Foundation
Inasmuch Foundation 1
Foundation
Report for America 1
Foundation
Yes on Prop 139 1
Foundation
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Progressive Candidate Endorsement
2
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

ABC15 Partner
shared by 1 org
AFL-CIO Network
shared by 1 org
Amazon Partner
shared by 1 org
Amber Rivera Partner
shared by 1 org
American Federation of Labor--Congress of Industrial Organizations Partner
shared by 1 org
American Society of News Editors Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Coalition for Change Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Community Foundation Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Community Foundation Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Local News Foundation Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Local News Fund Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Student Media Advisory Board Partner
shared by 1 org
Arnold Ventures Funder
shared by 1 org
Becky Pallack Partner
shared by 1 org
Blue America PAC Partner
shared by 1 org
Bluejay Rising Partner
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL CA · 6 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 CATCH FIRE MOVEMENT AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 ARIZONA LOCAL POST AZ · 1 · shares w/ 0
scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

39
Partner organizations
from 3 orgs
23
Staff
from 2 orgs