How much does Article IV give?

Article IV reported 49 grants totaling $69,263,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 27 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Article IV fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (87%), Health (8%), Civil Rights (4%).

Who are Article IV's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Vote Yes on 3 ($18M), Montanans for Election Reform Action Fund ($18M), Citizens Not Politicians ($11M).

Does Article IV fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Article IV?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Unite America Inc, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Unite America Institute Inc.

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Virginia · Public charity

Article IV

Our mission is to advance policies that promote freedom and

$69M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 49
Grants FY2024: 27
Organizations funded FY2023: 67%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $18,380,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 27; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 22

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Article IV funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesMembership BenefitEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	48	$69M	65%
FY2023	27	$6.4M	67%
FY2022	22	$5.4M	91%
FY2021	2	$1.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Benefit$71MHealth$6.5MCivil Rights$3.2MSocial Science$478kEnvironment$300kHuman Services$250kPublic Safety & Disaster$187kCommunity Improvement$23k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Vote Yes on 3	$18,380,000	1	64%
Montanans for Election Reform Action Fund	$18,175,000	1	80%
Citizens Not Politicians	$10,700,000	2	27%
Oregon Ranked Choice Votin	$6,465,000	1	n/a
No on 2	$4,900,000	1	34%
Better Elections	$4,812,978	2	n/a
Yes on 117	$2,830,000	1	71%
Idahoans for Open Primarie	$2,220,000	1	n/a
Oregon Ranked Choice Voting Advocates	$1,467,000	2	67%
FairVote Minnesota	$1,190,000	2	84%

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All grantees of Article IV by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Vote Yes on 3	$18,380,000	1	64%
Montanans for Election Reform Action Fund	$18,175,000	1	80%
Citizens Not Politicians	$10,700,000	2	27%
Oregon Ranked Choice Votin	$6,465,000	1	n/a
No on 2	$4,900,000	1	34%
Better Elections	$4,812,978	2	n/a
Yes on 117	$2,830,000	1	71%
Idahoans for Open Primarie	$2,220,000	1	n/a
Oregon Ranked Choice Voting Advocates	$1,467,000	2	67%
FairVote Minnesota	$1,190,000	2	84%
Alaskans for Better Elections	$1,015,000	2	70%
One Person One Vote	$850,000	1	4%
Fairvote Action	$815,000	3	44%
Wyoming FREE	$651,668	2	100%
Ballot Access Mississippi	$607,781	2	n/a
Conservative Majority Fund	$500,000	1	100%
Utah Ranked Choice Voting Action	$400,000	1	82%
Common Cause	$368,300	3	2%
Nebraskans for Better Governance	$349,200	2	60%
Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy	$343,000	1	13%
North Dakota Citizens Protecting the Constitution	$324,433	1	31%
Vermont Public Interest Research Group Inc	$275,000	2	13%
Southern Nevada Building T	$250,000	1	n/a
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$250,000	1	n/a
Eternal Vigilance Action Inc	$240,000	2	34%
American Unity Fund Inc	$200,000	1	6%
United Conservative Policy Fund	$200,000	1	18%
Oklahoma United for Progress Inc	$200,000	1	32%
Fix the System-Wisconsin Action Inc	$200,000	2	76%
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund	$200,000	1	3%
Conservative Leadership for Missouri	$200,000	1	10%
Eternal Vigilance Action I	$187,000	1	n/a
Nebraska Votes	$185,000	2	8%
Rank the Vote Ohio	$170,000	2	n/a
Platte Institute for Economic Research Inc	$158,000	4	6%
Utah Ranked Choice Voting	$157,000	1	42%
Protect AR Constitution	$150,000	1	19%
Fairvote Washington	$125,000	3	13%
Equality State Policy Center	$125,000	2	27%
Veterans for All Voters	$120,000	1	13%
Common Cause Education Fund	$110,000	1	0%
House Majority Forward	$100,000	1	0%
Missouri Conservative Valu	$100,000	1	n/a
Four for Montana Action Fund	$80,000	1	100%
Center for Civic Design Inc	$75,000	2	3%
Votes Idaho Company	$75,000	2	17%
Representwomen Inc	$67,000	1	3%
Ranked Choice Voting Maryland	$55,000	1	87%
Fairvote	$51,500	2	1%
Win Minnesota	$50,000	1	2%
SAM Advocacy Fund	$50,000	1	17%
Count Mi Vote Education Fund	$50,000	1	1%
Count Mi Vote	$50,000	1	4%
4 Score 7	$36,028	1	n/a
Upvote Virginia	$36,000	1	30%
New Progressive Network	$35,000	1	5%
Partners in Democracy Education Inc	$35,000	1	n/a
Open Primaries Inc	$33,600	2	3%
Utahns Protecting our Constitution	$27,337	1	25%
Democracy a Journal of Ideas Inc	$25,000	1	5%
South Dakota Voters First	$25,000	1	3%
Sightline Institute	$25,000	1	1%
Conservative Accountability Project Inc	$25,000	1	66%
Wy Vote	$25,000	1	n/a
New Mexico Black Leadership Council	$20,000	1	1%
Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries	$20,000	1	4%
Nm Native Vote	$20,000	1	4%
Equality New Mexico Foundation	$20,000	1	5%
Center for Civic Action	$20,000	1	1%
R Street Institute	$15,000	2	0%
League of Women Voters of Alaska	$7,500	1	n/a

Article IV supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 58.

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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.

Unite America IncCO36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Unite America Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Unite America Institute Inc · New Venture Fund · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · Action Now Inc · America Votes · Hopewell Fund · Our American Future Action · Democracy Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Final-Five Fund Inc

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.

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About Article IV

How much does Article IV give?: Article IV reported 49 grants totaling $69,263,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 27 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Article IV fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (87%), Health (8%), Civil Rights (4%).
Who are Article IV's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Vote Yes on 3 ($18M), Montanans for Election Reform Action Fund ($18M), Citizens Not Politicians ($11M).
Does Article IV fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Article IV?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Unite America Inc, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Unite America Institute Inc.
Where is Article IV based?: Article IV is based in VA.