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Commonwealth Alliance Voter Engagement

COMMONWEALTH ALLIANCE VOTER ENGAGEMENT coordinates and supports grassroots movements in building organizing people power and shaping the political conditions that lead to an equitable and thriving commonwealth for all kentuckians.

$135k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$120kEnvironment$23kHealth$13kCivil Rights$13kRecreation & Sports$9k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $109,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $135,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$17,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$744k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC$75,000
HOOD TO THE HOLLER$17,500
REVOLUTION KY$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE ADVOCATES$7,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ARENA: $9k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE: $6k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE ADVOCATES: $7k → 9%REVOLUTION KY: $10k → 13%LOUISVILLE POLITICAL EDUCATION: $10k → 15%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.
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 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
Queer Kentucky Inc

Bolster and enhance Queer culture

Arts & Culture
2
Kentucky County Judgeexecutive Associat

Provide services to governmental agencies.

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3
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

Promote participation in the democratic process, and organizing and leadership development for social justice.

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4
Kentucky Coalition Inc

To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.

Public Benefit
5
Protect Colorados Vote

To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact

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6
Ballot Pa Action

Informed and educated the public and lawmakers about the benefits of including independent voters in Pennsylvania's primary elections.

Civil Rights
7
Kentucky Saving Them Together Inc
Animals
8
Upstate Action Alliance

Non-PartisanVoter Educ Advocacy

Civil Rights
9
One Person One Vote

Ballot issue political action committee to advocate for the defeat of a constitutional amendment that would require a 60% threshold for any future constitutional amendments.

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10
Common Cause

Common cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to upholding the core values of american democracy. we work to ensure open, honest, and accountable government; to promote equal rights, opportunity, and representation for…

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11
Presidential Election Project Inc

Securing reforms to the electoral count act

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12
Kentucky Humanities Council Inc

The kentucky humanities council is dedicated to telling kentucky's story through programs and services that create a legacy of pride in the wealth of kentucky's culture, building civic engagement, and supporting local humanities programs…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fairness Campaign Inc. 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

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 9 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
0/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INCHOOD TO HOLLER INC: $17,500 · OtherHOOD TO HOLLER INCPRESERVE PROTECT DEFEND: $15,000 · OtherPRESERVE PROTECT DEFENDTHE REVOLUTION KENTUCKY: $10,000 · OtherTHE REVOLUTION KENTUCKYTHE ARENA 527 PAC: $9,400 · OtherTHE ARENA 527 PACKY CONSERVATION COMMITTEE: $8,000 · OtherKY CONSERVATION COMMITTEEOPERATION TURNOUT: $19,500 · Civil RightsOPERATION TU…PLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE ADVOCATES SERVING AK HI ID IN KY AND WA: $13,000 · HealthCHANGE TODAY CHANGE TOMORROW: $10,000 · Education
Community Improvement$75,000Other$59,900Civil Rights$19,500Health$13,000Education$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOPERATION TURNOUT: $19,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE ADVOCATES SERVING AK HI ID IN KY AND WA: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHANGE TODAY CHANGE TOMORROW: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

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.

Commonwealth Alliance Action FundKY16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Commonwealth Alliance Action Fund · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation

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 Commonwealth Alliance Voter Engagement funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Commonwealth Alliance Voter Engagement. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Commonwealth Alliance Voter Engagement?

    Find your warmest path to Commonwealth Alliance Voter Engagement through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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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