· Public charity
Center for Technology and Civic Life
The center's mission is to increase civic participation by modernizing engagement between local government and the people they serve.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k76 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $8.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US DIGITAL RESPONSE | $3,700,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT | $3,300,000 |
| THE ELECTIONS GROUP | $958,000 |
| CENTER FOR CIVIC DESIGN | $800,000 |
| VOTEORG | $200,000 |
| ROCK THE VOTE | $200,000 |
| STUDIO DAVID JANKA | $128,000 |
| MI FAMILIA VOTA | $100,000 |
| THOMAS MAIORANAPROTOTYPING SYSTEMS LLC | $100,000 |
| PODER LATINX COLLECTIVE FUND | $100,000 |
| COLORADO COUNTY CLERKS ASSOCIATION | $90,000 |
| UMATILLA COUNTY | $50,000 |
| MARQUETTE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| CORTLAND COUNTY | $50,000 |
| STEUBEN COUNTY FINANCE | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DCDEKALB COUNTY GEORGIA2× · 2021–2023 · $12M
- UDUS DIGITAL RESPONSE3× · 2023–2025 · $8.1M · revenue -9% · 30% of their budget
- CCCLARK COUNTY NV ELECTION DEPTARMENT #843× · 2021–2024 · $5.4M
Funded once
- NDNYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $19M
- DCDALLAS COUNTY ELECTIONSone grant, 2021 · $15M
- FCFULTON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERSone grant, 2021 · $11M
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.
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.
The organization is founded for social welfare purposes, including assisting with voter registration and advocating for policies which lead to increased voter registration in the united states.
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
Strengthen democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in all elections.
CEIR seeks to restore trust in the American election system and promote election procedures that encourage participation while ensuring election integrity and security.
American Redistricting Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to strengthen our republic by supporting constitutional redistricting, election transparency, and accountable government through research, education, and…
Voter registration project's purpose is to carry out nonpartisan voter registration programs and assist other nonprofit organizations in planning, implementing and evaluating such programs.
The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.
To preserve and protect the sanctity of our vote by promoting commonsense, nonpartisan election security reforms that prevent hacking and fraud without restricting eligible citizens from accessing the polls.
ERIC is a membership organization consisting of state election officials working together to improve the accuracy of state voter registration lists and educate eligible citizens on how to register to vote.
Fairvote action campaigns for better elections for all. we win voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every american.
Fairvote is a nonpartisan organization seeking better elections for all. it researches and advances voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every american. since 1992, it has a proven record as a…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 2,000 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Institute for Responsive Government Inc · The Stanton Foundation · The Recycling Partnership Inc · American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · Amplify Inc · Agespan Inc · Palmettopride the Governor's Council on Beautification & Litter · Our Rescue · National Energy Education Development Project Inc · National Environmental Health Association
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Center for Technology and Civic Life funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Technology and Civic Life. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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