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A Public Voice Inc

The organization's mission is to promote the common good and general welfare by supporting direct democracy efforts, which give the public a direct voice in the operation of state and local government through the approval or defeat of amendments to state constitutions and local charters, and state and local legislation.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$485k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.4MCivil Rights$691kYouth Development$485kPhilanthropy$480kCrime & Legal$315kPublic Safety & Disaster$263kEmployment$240kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $373k
  • $250k+2 grants · $735k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$943k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Building Our Future Today$485,000
AEF LLC$250,000
Right for NC$142,500
Economic Future Fund$130,000
American Exceptionalism$100,000
Safe Streets Safe Comm$38,000
Republican Party of LA$34,000
OK Conservative Renewal$25,000
FuturePAC LLC$23,000
Responsible MI leadership$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Solutions for Arizona: $75k → 11%Advance Oklahoma Fund: $290k → 16%Americans Keep Country First: $25k → 14%Responsible MI leadership: $15k → 9%Georgia Action Fund: $175k → 16%Right for NC: $143k → 16%A Strong Georgia: $100k → 11%Conservatives For Our Future: $8k → 13%WBJ Leadership Committee: $50k → 13%Georgia Repub Senate Comm: $50k → 23%Ohio Leads Inc: $700k → 15%Prosperity Alliance: $35k → 6%American Policy Coalition: $50k → 9%Stronger Nevada PAC: $95k → 13%Republican Party of LA: $34k → 19%Honor Bound LLC: $20k → 11%Okie Way Inc: $190k → 16%Building Our Future Today: $485k → 14%Georgia House Repub Trust: $100k → 11%Ohio Leads Inc: $150k → 15%OK Conservative Renewal: $25k → 6%Commonwealth CF: $45k → 9%FuturePAC LLC: $23k → 19%Build and protect OK PAC: $15k → 16%American Policy Coalition: $50k → 14%Government Integrity Fund: $20k → 15%Citizens for Working America: $15k → 6%MeToo Ohio: $295k → 9%LA Traditional Conservative: $51k → 19%Rep Attorneys General Assoc: $23k → 14%AEF LLC: $250k → 6%Safe Streets Safe Comm: $38k → 14%The Revitalization Project: $200k → 6%American Exceptionalism: $100k → 6%Americans for Secure Elect: $140k → 6%Build and protect OK: $100k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NV
OH
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 5 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +594% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
31

Total granted

$1.9M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+594%
-18%

Still filing today

40%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • OL
    Ohio Leads Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $850k
  • AO
    Advance OK PAC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $495k
  • SS
    Safe Streets Safe Communities
    2× · 2022–2024 · $263k · revenue -89%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $370k
  • MO
    MeToo Ohio
    one grant, 2018 · $295k
  • AO
    Advance Oklahoma Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $290k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Jobs and Growth Fund

American Jobs and Growth Fund aims to advances policies to change the long-term fiscal trajectory of the United States through responsible spending policies.

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2
American Advancement

Promote public policies aimed at removing barriers to economic growth and advancing economic opportunity for the American people.

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3
Defend Us Inc

The organization works to defend, protect, and advance bedrock American values.

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4
Independence and Freedom Network

Independence and Freedom Network was founded to promote solutions to pressing public policy problems related to individual liberty and the expansion of personal freedom.

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5
United for Clean Power

United for Clean Power is focused on public policies that build a 21st century energy future.

Environment
6
Jobs and Progress Fund Inc

To promote the common good and general welfare through education and legislative participation on public matters that significantly impact the economy, job growth and retention, employment and that are designed to promote fiscal…

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7
21st Century Policy Institute

21st Century Policy Institute engages in public policy advocacy including advocacy to sustain a dialog around the critical importance of Americas economic and military strength and the related implications both domestically and abroad.

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8
A Public Voice Inc

The organization's mission is to promote the common good and general welfare by supporting direct democracy efforts, which give the public a direct voice in the operation of state and local government through the approval or defeat of…

Public Benefit
9
Ohio Works

To engage in any lawful act or activity for which not for profit corporations may be formed under chapter 1702 of the ohio revised code or the corresponding provisions of any future ohio statute.

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10
American Prosperity Alliance

American Prosperity Alliances mission is to advocate for legislative and regulatory policies that advance economic prosperity in America.

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11
Stronger America Inc

Stronger America is dedicated to promoting good government and advancing issues that encourage American exceptionalism and strength by educating people on the importance of limited government fiscal conservatism and family values.

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12
Great America Coalition

To educate the public on policy issues.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Policy Coalition; the most unlike its peers is Georgia Strong Committee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ohio Leads Inc: $850,000 · OtherOhio Leads IncAdvance OK PAC: $495,000 · OtherAdvance OK PACBuilding our future today: $485,000 · OtherBuilding our future todayIndividual grant recipient: $370,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMeToo Ohio: $295,000 · OtherAdvance Oklahoma Fund: $290,000 · OtherSafe Streets Safe Communities: $263,000 · OtherHardworking Georgians Inc: $250,000 · OtherAEF LLC: $250,000 · OtherFund for Working Congress: $240,000 · OtherAmerican Jobs and Growth: $240,000 · Other+30 more: $2,010,000 · Other+30 moreThe Revitalization Project: $200,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican Exceptionalism Institute: $100,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican Policy Coalition: $100,000 · Public BenefitProsperity Alliance Inc: $35,440 · Public Benefit
Other$6,038,000Community Improvement$300,000Public Benefit$135,440

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSafe Streets Safe Communities: $263,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHardworking Georgians Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetThe Revitalization Project: $200,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetAmerican Jobs and Security: $140,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetEconomic Future Fund: $130,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGeorgia Strong Committee: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetAmerican Exceptionalism Institute: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAmerican Policy Coalition: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetProsperity Alliance Inc: $35,440 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGovernment Integrity Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A WORKING AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Safe Streets Safe Communities ↗
  • Who funds Hardworking Georgians Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Revitalization Project ↗
  • Who funds American Jobs and Security ↗
  • Who funds Economic Future Fund ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Strong Committee ↗
  • Who funds American Exceptionalism Institute ↗
  • Who funds American Policy Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Prosperity Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds Government Integrity Fund ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Policy Coali…American AdvancementThe Revitalization Pr…Government Integrity …Citizens for a Workin…American Exceptionali…Prosperity Alliance I…American Jobs and Sec…American Jobs and Gro…Defend US IncOne Ohio United IncPharmaceutical Resear…
American Policy CoalitionVA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Policy Coalition · American Advancement · The Revitalization Project · Government Integrity Fund · Citizens for a Working America Inc · American Exceptionalism Institute · Prosperity Alliance Inc · American Jobs and Security · American Jobs and Growth Fund · Defend US Inc · One Ohio United Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Public Voice Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Public Voice Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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