Actionaid USA
ActionAid USA is a Washington, DC-based public charity and the U.S. branch of ActionAid International. Its stated purpose includes raising money in the United States to support antipoverty projects in developing countries, implemented by ActionAid associates and partners.
Actionaid USA at a glance
In short: Actionaid USA reported $1.5M in grants paid in 2025 (a total; its filing lists no individual grants). Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Grants paid (2025)
- $1,506,608 — reported as a total on the IRS filing, without an itemized list
- +1095.7% vs 2024
- Total assets
- $1,508,602
- -61.4% vs 2024
- Revenue (2025)
- $1,765,065
- -35.5% vs 2024
- Net investment income (2025)
- $22,301
- -29.1% vs 2024
- Expenses (2025)
- $3,539,770
- -14.3% vs 2024
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
How to apply to Actionaid USA
- Contact
Mailing address: 1220 L St Nw 725, Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 835-1240
Website: https://actionaidusa.org
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Who Actionaid USA funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Grant Size Distribution
6 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 4 grants of 6 (67%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
ActionAid USA describes its work as supporting antipoverty projects in developing countries. Its 2025 filing reports humanitarian response in Gaza and the West Bank, Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Cambodia; climate-related work in the United States and international advocacy; and research concerning Kenya and Liberia. The filing says ActionAid International works in more than 40 countries.
Grant Distribution by State
Cities
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $126K (2024) to $3.1M (2022). In 2025 it reported $1.5M in grants paid, as a total without an itemized list.
Hatched bars: grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund Oakland, CA | Climate Justice Grant | $80,000 |
| Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light Minneapolis, MN | Climate Justice Grant | $40,000 |
| National Family Farm Coalition Washington, DC | Land Rights Grant | $6,000 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,508,602 | $1,765,065 | $3,539,770 | $1,506,608 | Total only | $22,301 |
| 2024 | $3,907,437 | $2,738,586 | $4,131,257 | $126,000 | 3 | $31,446 |
| 2023 | $4,947,083 | $3,798,214 | $4,684,847 | $245,000 | 3 | $17,673 |
| 2022 | $6,064,951 | $6,820,978 | $5,284,592 | $3,128,641 | Total only | $462 |
| 2021 | $3,925,088 | $6,196,724 | $4,960,534 | $2,870,091 | Total only | $980 |
| 2020 | $2,455,872 | $4,453,185 | $4,066,632 | $2,190,150 | Total only | $1,755 |
| 2019 | $1,607,483 | $3,151,755 | $4,634,822 | $2,740,655 | Total only | $5,718 |
"Total only": grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated September 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
ActionAid USA states its mission is to help achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication in solidarity with communities facing poverty and injustice, including by influencing U.S. policy and international institutions and elevating marginalized voices.
Its 2025 filing describes support for women’s rights through research, movement-building, and locally led programming; emergency humanitarian aid; climate justice organizing and advocacy; and research and advocacy on economic justice. Its website also identifies climate justice, emergency response, land rights, politics and economics, food and agriculture, and women’s rights as core issues.
Grantmaking
The 2025 filing describes projects implemented by ActionAid associates and partners. Project accountability groups meet quarterly to review grant progress and budgets against expenses, and ActionAid USA reviews program and financial reports with implementing partners for compliance with grant provisions. The filing reports three grants totaling $245,000 in 2023 and three totaling $126,000 in 2024. Those totals correspond to average grant sizes of about $81,667 and $42,000, respectively. The 2025 filing reports zero grants. No grantee names or application process are provided in the available information.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
Officers and directors listed on the 2025 filing are Geoffrey Knox, board chair; Burhan Razi, treasurer; Anne-Marea Griffin, secretary; Faran Saeed, vice chair; Alka Kothari, Rachel Carle, Victoria Wigodzky, Jennifer Amuzie, and Cynthia Cabrera, directors; and Niranjali Amerasinghe, executive director.
Actionaid USA is led by Niranjali Amerasinghe, Executive Director on every filing since 2019; 4 of 13 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Niranjali Amerasinghe
Executive Director
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$40K (2019) → $161K (2025)
Geoffrey Knox
Board Chair
Board Secretary → Vice Chair, 2024
Vice Chair → Board Chair, 2025
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Richard Payling-Wright
Director of Finance & Administrator
Chief Financial Officer → Director of Finance & Administration, 2024
Director of Finance & Administration → Director of Finance & Administrator, 2025
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$108K (2019) → $123K (2025)
Meredith Slater
Director of Development
On filings since 2021
40 hrs/week
$100K (2021) → $113K (2025)
Brandon Wu
Director of Policy & Campa
Director of Policy & Campaigns → Director of Policy & Campa, 2025
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$110K (2023) → $114K (2025)
Alka Kothari
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Cynthia Cabrera
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jennifer Amuzie
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Rachel Carle
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Victoria Wigodzky
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Burhan Razi
Treasurer
Board Member → Board Treasurer, 2022
Board Treasurer → Treasurer, 2024
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Anne-Marea Griffin
Secretary
Board Member → Secretary, 2024
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Faran Saeed
Vice Chair
Director → Vice Chair, 2025
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (20)
- Former: Margot Hoerrner (2022–2024) — Board Chair
- Former: Douglas Hertzler (2023–2024) — Senior Policy Analyst
- Former: Oyeboade Adeleye (2023–2024) — Officer & Hr Manager
- Former: Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau (2023–2024) — Senior Policy Campaigner
- Former: Brenna Kupferman (2024) — Senior Partnerships Manager
- Former: Ehab Elsawaf (2024) — Deputy Director
- Former: Patricia Zermeno (2019–2023) — Board Chair
- Former: Rollin Johnson Jr. (2019–2023) — Board Vice Chair
- Former: Timi Gerson (2022–2023) — Board Member
- Former: Anuradha Mittal (2023) — Board Member
- Former: Abid Aslam (2019–2022) — Board Member
- Former: Imani Countess (2019–2022) — Board Vice Chair
- Former: Athena Ronquillo-Ballesteros (2020–2022) — Board Member
- Former: Anuradha Desai (2019–2021) — Board Secretary
- Former: Ricki McMillan (2019–2021) — Board Treasurer
- Former: Tom Fox (2019–2021) — Board Member
- Former: Arjun Makhijani (2019–2020) — Board Member
- Former: Diana Duarte (2019–2020) — Board Chair
- Former: Ann Marie Clarke (2019) — Executive Director
- Former: Caroline Hamric (2019) — Director of Operations
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $161K, to Niranjali Amerasinghe (Executive Director). 4 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Actionaid USA
How much does Actionaid USA give each year?
Actionaid USA reported $1.5M in grants paid in 2025 on its 2025 IRS Form 990, as a total without an itemized list of grants. In 2024 it gave $126K across 3 grants.
How large is Actionaid USA?
Actionaid USA reported $1.5M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $1.8M.
What does Actionaid USA fund?
ActionAid USA states its mission is to help achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication in solidarity with communities facing poverty and injustice, including by influencing U.S. policy and international institutions and elevating marginalized voices. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Actionaid USA?
Actionaid USA has no public application process in the sources Grantable reviewed. Check actionaidusa.org for current guidelines, or contact the foundation directly before submitting a request.
Where does Actionaid USA make grants?
ActionAid USA describes its work as supporting antipoverty projects in developing countries. Its 2025 filing reports humanitarian response in Gaza and the West Bank, Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Cambodia; climate-related work in the United States and international advocacy; and research concerning Kenya and Liberia. The filing says ActionAid International works in more than 40 countries.
What is Actionaid USA's EIN?
Actionaid USA's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 52-2277575. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated September 2026.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS May 14, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS August 28, 2025)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS June 4, 2020)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS August 9, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS May 13, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS July 13, 2023)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS June 29, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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