ACT 4 SA

What ACT 4 SA does

ACT 4 SA is a San Antonio-based grassroots criminal justice reform organization founded in 2021. It operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with an affiliated 501(c)(4) Action Fund established in 2022, and in 2025 launched an Action PAC for direct electoral engagement. Its mission centers on combating over-criminalization and over-policing through community organizing, voter education, and legislative advocacy aimed at the San Antonio community and Texas state policymaking.

The organization's core products are civic-information tools and advocacy platforms. The Cop The Data Dashboard and the SAPD Budget Dashboard provide public-facing data transparency on local law enforcement activity and police spending. The Know Your Rights Toolkit offers residents educational resources for encounters with law enforcement. In 2025 the organization expanded into state-level legislative advocacy, attending advocacy days at the Texas Capitol and coordinating opposition to bills it characterized as harmful, reporting five defeated bills across the regular and special sessions.

Its business model is a nonprofit advocacy structure. It does not generate revenue from sales; it is funded via donations and grants, with Heising Simons Action Fund identified as a funder. The 501(c)(4) Action Fund and the 2025 Action PAC extend the organization's tax-structural capacity to engage in lobbying and political spending, including the reported $25,000 contribution to Gina Ortiz Jones's San Antonio mayoral campaign. Forward, the organization plans to expand its judicial voter guide to reach 10,000 people in 2026, indicating a programmatic scaling path funded through ongoing donor cultivation.

Name

ACT 4 SA

Legal name

ACT 4 SA

Website

https://act4sa.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Short description

ACT 4 SA is a San Antonio-based nonprofit grassroots criminal justice reform organization founded in 2021, operating data dashboards, voter-education tools, and a political action committee through 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) entities for local community advocacy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Criminal Justice Advocacy

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Criminal Justice Reform & Legal System Advocacy (BPAGAFAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Democracy, Voting Rights & Civic Participation Advocacy (BPAGAFAJ), Alternative Dispute Resolution & Restorative Justice Programs (BPAIAFAL)

Keywords

• Criminal justice advocacy
• Grassroots community organizing
• Police accountability data
• Public safety reform
• Nonprofit advocacy organization

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations - 501(c)3: Tax-deductible donations to ACT 4 SA (501(c)3) supporting advocacy work in criminal justice reform and community organizing.
2. Donations - 501(c)4 Action Fund: Political donations to ACT 4 SA Action Fund (501(c)4) supporting candidate endorsements and political advocacy.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ACT 4 SA is a grassroots nonprofit organization that advocates for criminal justice reform and public safety transformation in San Antonio. It delivers public-facing data dashboards (Cop The Data Dashboard and the SAPD Budget Dashboard) that track police activity and municipal police spending, distributes a free Know Your Rights Toolkit for community education, and operates a separate 501(c)4 Action Fund for political endorsements and lobbying.

Product overview

ACT 4 SA operates as a grassroots criminal justice organization with a portfolio of advocacy tools and data transparency products. The core offerings include the Cop The Data Dashboard and SAPD Budget Dashboard, which provide public transparency on police data and municipal budget allocation. Supporting these are the Know Your Rights Toolkit for community education and the Action Fund (501(c)4) for political advocacy and candidate support. This is a multi-channel advocacy platform rather than a traditional software product suite.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cop The Data Dashboard A public-facing data dashboard that tracks and visualizes police-related data to promote transparency and accountability for community members in San Antonio.
• SAPD Budget Dashboard A budget tracking dashboard that follows San Antonio Police Department annual spending (approximately $1 billion) with inflation-adjusted figures and publicly available source data, aimed at promoting budget transparency.
• Know Your Rights Toolkit A free downloadable educational toolkit providing San Antonio community members with information about their legal rights when interacting with law enforcement.

Quantifiable outcome

• Five bad bills defeated in Texas legislative session
• +2 more outcomes

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Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ACLU of TexascoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Partner in criminal justice advocacy and legislative efforts, collaborating on shared goals of civil liberties protection.
• Texas EqualitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025LGBTQ+ advocacy organization partnering on equality issues and mutual support for progressive causes.
• Texas Organizing ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Community organizing partner in Texas working on social justice and democracy issues.
• VOCAL TXcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Statewide advocacy organization; supported by ACT 4 SA at the Capitol in February 2025.
• Groundgame TexascoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Community organizing partner for grassroots mobilization and voter engagement.
• MOVE TexascoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Youth voter engagement and civic participation organization.
• Texas Civil Rights ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Legal advocacy organization working on civil rights issues.
• All of Us or None TexascoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Organization advocating for formerly incarcerated individuals.
• Texas Equity Action PACminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2025Political action committee partner for shared advocacy efforts.
• Mano Amiga Action FundminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Community organization partner.
• Movement Voter ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025National organization supporting progressive candidates through local partners.
• Radical RegistrarsminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Voter registration and civic engagement organization.
• SA Stands Immigration CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025San Antonio coalition advocating for immigrant rights.
• Texas AppleseedminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Public interest law organization working on systemic reforms.
• Way to RiseminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Community organization partner.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ACLU of Texas: State-level affiliate of the ACLU operating in Texas with a similar criminal-justice and civil-liberties advocacy mandate; one of ACT 4 SA's named strategic coalition partners and a direct peer on legislative/policy advocacy.
• Texas Civil Rights Project: Texas-based legal advocacy organization focused on civil rights, criminal-justice reform, and immigrants' rights; named partner of ACT 4 SA and a direct peer on litigation and public-advocacy strategy in the same state.
• Texas Organizing Project: Community-organizing nonprofit operating across Texas on racial and economic justice; named partner and a close peer to ACT 4 SA in grassroots base-building, canvassing, and electoral organizing.
• VOCAL Texas: Statewide grassroots advocacy organization working on criminal-justice, homelessness, and drug-policy reform; named partner and a peer on legislative advocacy and directly-impacted-member organizing in Texas.
• Texas Equality: Texas LGBTQ+ advocacy and lobbying organization; named partner of ACT 4 SA and a comparable issue-advocacy nonprofit operating at the Texas Capitol.
• Austin Justice Coalition: Central Texas coalition focused on police accountability, criminal-justice reform, and ending mass criminalization; comparable to ACT 4 SA in mission, Texas geography, and grassroots-plus-policy mix.
• MOVE Texas: Texas youth-led civic and voter-engagement nonprofit that is a named coalition partner; comparable to ACT 4 SA on civic participation and grassroots mobilization, focused on a younger demographic.
• Critical Resistance: National grassroots organization working to dismantle the prison-industrial complex and build alternatives; directly comparable to ACT 4 SA's abolitionist framing and 'building alternatives' pillar.

Broad incumbents

• Vera Institute of Justice: Established national research and advocacy organization working on criminal-justice reform and police accountability; comparable in mission but operates at a much larger scale and broader geography than ACT 4 SA.
• Brennan Center for Justice: National law-and-policy institute working on criminal-justice reform, voting rights, and government accountability; covers ACT 4 SA's electoral-and-policy-advocacy space but at far greater scale and with a research-and-litigation tilt rather than grassroots mobilization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

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