How much did BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER grant in FY2024?

BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER reported 2 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER based?

BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER is based in DC.

BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER

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· Public charity

BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER

Bisc foundation conducts research on issues and the role of ballot measures in democracy.

$120k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Philanthropy$250kCivil Rights$160kPublic Benefit$60kHuman Services$50kCrime & Legal$50kEmployment$10kEducation$10kOther$20k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2022

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2023

legislative sessionsession organizingbolstering infrastructure

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

MISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE$100,000
MAINE VOICES NETWORK$20,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class.

Civil Rights

Missouri Organizing and Voter

Advocating for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of average missouri citizens, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy, and conducting research, educating the public, and…

Civil Rights

Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit

Vote Org

Vote.org's primary purpose is to build web-based technologies that remove barriers to vote and increase voter turnout.

Civil Rights

Wyoming Civic Engagement Network

The wyoming civic engagement network strives for equitable voter participation by building power in marginalized and under-resourced communities, growing the capacity of their leaders and organizations, facilitating equitable access to…

Civil Rights

Upstate Action Alliance

Non-PartisanVoter Educ Advocacy

Civil Rights

Business & Industry Political

Research,collection & assembly of non-partisan information on voting records of members and prospective members of the mississippi legislature. research background and opinions of selected mississippi judicial candidates. education of…

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Mainstream Coalition Inc

The mainstream coalition is dedicated to creating a more representative and responsive government by empowering informed participation and meaningful action in the politcal process. we envision a kansas political system that represents all…

Public Benefit

Electoral Collective

Electoral Collective coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights

New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and to encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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Colorado Democracy Alliance

The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.

Civil Rights

Appalachian Voices

Appalachian voices brings people together to protect the land, air, and water of central and southern appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Votes and the most unlike its peers is Tides Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

10/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$250,000Civil Rights$160,000Public Benefit$60,000Human Services$50,000Crime & Legal$50,000Other$20,000Employment$10,000Education$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tides FoundationCA20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Demos a Network for Ideas and Action · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 464874864 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ballot Initiative Strategy Center?

Find your warmest path to Ballot Initiative Strategy Center through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ballot Initiative Strategy Center?

More from the funding graph

BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ballot Initiative Strategy Center?

More from the funding graph