How much does Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation give?

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Public Benefit (38%), Civil Rights (11%).

Who are Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborative ($150k), Florida Alliance for Civic Engagement Inc ($50k), Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest ($50k).

Does Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation

BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER FOUNDATION (bisc foundation) strengthens democracy by conducting research to better understand public attitudes toward issues and the role ballot measures play in our democracy.

$120k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 2
Grants FY2024: 5
Organizations funded FY2023: 100%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 5; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $6.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEmployment

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	2	$120k	50%
FY2023	5	$170k	100%
FY2022	2	$60k	100%
FY2018	1	$10k	n/a

100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$250kPublic Benefit$230kCivil Rights$70kCrime & Legal$50kEmployment$10k

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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborative	$150,000	2	3%
Florida Alliance for Civic Engagement Inc	$50,000	1	10%
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest	$50,000	1	1%
Living United for Change in Arizona	$50,000	1	1%
Maine People's Resource Center	$20,000	1	0%
Blueprint North Carolina	$10,000	1	0%
Mississippi Votes	$10,000	1	0%
Missouri Jobs With Justice	$10,000	1	0%
Ohio Voice	$10,000	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 9.

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.

Tides FoundationCA20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation

How much does Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation give?: Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Public Benefit (38%), Civil Rights (11%).
Who are Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborative ($150k), Florida Alliance for Civic Engagement Inc ($50k), Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest ($50k).
Does Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund.
Where is Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation based?: Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation is based in DC.