How much does Democracy Fund Voice Inc give?

Democracy Fund Voice Inc reported 50 grants totaling $12,591,041 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Democracy Fund Voice Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (66%), Civil Rights (20%), Environment (5%).

Who are Democracy Fund Voice Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Defending Democracy Together ($4.8M), Public Citizen Inc ($2.7M), NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc ($2.5M).

Does Democracy Fund Voice Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Democracy Fund Voice Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Open Society Action Fund Inc, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Our American Future Action.

Where is Democracy Fund Voice Inc based?

Democracy Fund Voice Inc is based in DC.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Democracy Fund Voice Inc

Democracy Fund Voice is an organization established in 2014 to conduct and support advocacy that will produce a stronger, healthier democracy in the United States.

$13M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 50
Grants FY2024: 44
Organizations funded FY2023: 48%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $200,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $825,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 44; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 20
Total assets, FY2024: $16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Democracy Fund Voice Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther

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	45	$12M	56%
FY2023	44	$11M	48%
FY2022	36	$8.6M	31%
FY2021	35	$7.2M	23%
FY2020	39	$6.7M	51%
FY2019	24	$6.2M	63%
FY2018	18	$3.9M	61%
FY2017	9	$2.1M	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, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$54MCivil Rights$16MEnvironment$3.6MArts & Culture$1.6MInternational$1.1MCrime & Legal$970kEducation$805kEmployment$570kOther$0

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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Defending Democracy Together	$4,750,000	5	48%
Public Citizen Inc	$2,700,000	6	9%
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	$2,495,000	6	11%
Stand Up Republic Inc	$2,225,000	5	78%
Tides Advocacy	$1,825,000	3	1%
Bipartisan Policy Center Action Inc	$1,740,000	6	15%
Protect Democracy United	$1,650,000	7	19%
Free Press Action Fund	$1,575,000	6	51%
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc	$1,450,000	4	15%
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Inc	$1,300,000	3	20%

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All grantees of Democracy Fund Voice Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Defending Democracy Together	$4,750,000	5	48%
Public Citizen Inc	$2,700,000	6	9%
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	$2,495,000	6	11%
Stand Up Republic Inc	$2,225,000	5	78%
Tides Advocacy	$1,825,000	3	1%
Bipartisan Policy Center Action Inc	$1,740,000	6	15%
Protect Democracy United	$1,650,000	7	19%
Free Press Action Fund	$1,575,000	6	51%
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc	$1,450,000	4	15%
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Inc	$1,300,000	3	20%
Working Families Organization Inc	$1,300,000	4	1%
Common Defense Civic Engagement Inc	$1,000,000	2	77%
Alliance for Youth Action	$900,000	5	10%
Local Progress Policy Action	$900,000	2	22%
Truman National Security Project	$895,000	3	90%
Florida Rising Inc	$885,000	3	12%
Adrc Action	$860,000	2	37%
Fair Fight Action Inc	$800,000	4	2%
Colorofchangeorg	$800,000	3	6%
Center for Community Change Action	$793,041	1	12%
Run for Something Action Fund	$750,000	1	12%
Six Action	$750,000	4	60%
Foundation for American Innovation	$700,000	4	12%
National States Geographic Information Council	$700,000	5	23%
Common Cause	$700,000	4	3%
Promote the Vote 2022	$650,000	1	n/a
Right To Democracy Action	$650,000	3	100%
Demand Justice	$600,000	3	14%
Planetwork	$585,000	3	44%
Living United for Change in Arizona	$585,000	5	7%
Mothering Justice Action Fund	$575,000	2	90%
Pay Our Interns Action Fund	$570,000	5	92%
The Congressional Institute Inc	$550,000	4	5%
Defending Digital Campaigns Inc	$550,000	3	28%
Reset Tech Action	$500,000	1	50%
One Person One Vote	$500,000	1	3%
Splc Action Fund	$500,000	2	6%
Proteus Action League	$500,000	5	9%
State Power Action Fund	$500,000	2	32%
Poder Nc Action	$460,000	4	17%
Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality	$450,000	2	6%
Vote Mama Action Fund Inc	$410,000	4	48%
Alaskans for Better Elections	$400,000	2	22%
Secure Democracy	$400,000	2	4%
Multicultural Media & Correspondents Association	$400,000	2	83%
Field Foundation of Illinois	$400,000	1	4%
Niskanen Center for Public Policy	$400,000	4	33%
National Popular Vote	$375,000	2	13%
All Voting Is Local Action	$353,000	2	24%
Media Innovation Collaboratory Inc	$335,000	3	n/a
Advance Democracy Inc	$325,000	2	6%
R Street Institute	$320,000	2	2%
Muslim Advocates	$300,000	1	4%
Progress Arizona	$300,000	1	12%
Black Economic Alliance	$300,000	2	14%
Citizens Not Politicians	$250,000	1	1%
Demand Progress Action Inc	$250,000	1	9%
Democracy Planning & Enhancement Fund	$250,000	1	4%
Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc	$250,000	1	9%
State Democracy Defenders Action D/B/A Democracy Defenders Action	$250,000	1	6%
Way to Win Action Fund Inc	$250,000	1	2%
Leadership Now Project	$225,000	2	4%
Collective Future	$225,000	2	n/a
Center for Empowered Politics	$215,000	2	2%
Issue One	$210,000	2	3%
Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund	$200,000	2	7%
Mississippi Votes Action Fund Corporation	$200,000	1	22%
Analyst Institute LLC	$200,000	1	n/a
Values United	$200,000	1	14%
States United Action	$200,000	1	4%
New Left Accelerator	$200,000	1	6%
Democracy Alliance	$200,000	1	n/a
Lupe Votes	$200,000	1	22%
Advance American Democracy Inc	$200,000	1	11%
Tirrc Votes	$200,000	1	20%
American Oversight Inc	$200,000	2	3%
Partnership for a New American Economy Action Fund Inc	$200,000	2	4%
Sunrise Movement	$200,000	1	8%
Yes on 117	$200,000	1	5%
Repower	$175,000	1	9%
Down Home Nc	$175,000	2	4%
Secure Families Initiative	$155,000	1	61%
Committee on States	$153,000	1	4%
United for Democracy	$150,000	1	2%
Voter Power	$150,000	1	n/a
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd	$150,000	2	1%
National Women's Law Center Action Fund	$150,000	1	7%
Progressive State Leaders Committee Inc	$150,000	1	3%
National Vote At Home Coalition	$150,000	2	60%
No on 2	$150,000	1	1%
Article IV	$150,000	1	0%
Arizona Advocacy Network	$150,000	1	8%
Iconico LLC	$150,000	2	n/a
Fix Our House	$150,000	1	n/a
ReThink Media	$125,000	1	4%
Focus for Democracy Action	$125,000	1	1%
Data Squad	$125,000	1	n/a
Arizona Wins	$100,000	1	7%
Informing Democracy	$100,000	1	5%
Faith In Texas Action	$100,000	1	n/a
Affordable Broadband Campaign	$100,000	1	77%
Mayer Media Strategy LLC	$100,000	1	n/a
United We Dream Action	$100,000	1	3%
Pen American Center Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Fireside21 LLC	$100,000	1	n/a
Bridge Alliance	$90,000	1	30%
Welcoming America Inc	$90,000	1	3%
Independent Strategic Research Collaborative	$87,000	1	n/a
Our American Future Action	$75,000	1	1%
FairVote Minnesota	$75,000	1	9%
Committee to Inform Voters on Issues & Candidates (Civic)	$75,000	1	45%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University	$60,000	1	0%
Mediators Foundation Inc	$55,000	1	4%
News Leaders Association	$50,000	1	n/a
The Campaign Legal Center Inc	$50,000	1	1%
National Newspaper Publishers Association Inc	$50,000	1	1%
The Groundtruth Project Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Shared Ascent Fund	$30,000	1	2%
Center for Christianity and Public Life	$25,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.

Democracy Fund Voice Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 22 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 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 104.

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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.

Open Society Action Fund IncNY97.9× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Open Society Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Our American Future Action · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · Tides Advocacy · North Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Women Donors Network Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Grove Action Fund · The Heising-Simons Action 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 Democracy Fund Voice Inc

How much does Democracy Fund Voice Inc give?: Democracy Fund Voice Inc reported 50 grants totaling $12,591,041 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Democracy Fund Voice Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (66%), Civil Rights (20%), Environment (5%).
Who are Democracy Fund Voice Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Defending Democracy Together ($4.8M), Public Citizen Inc ($2.7M), NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc ($2.5M).
Does Democracy Fund Voice Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Democracy Fund Voice Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Open Society Action Fund Inc, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Our American Future Action.
Where is Democracy Fund Voice Inc based?: Democracy Fund Voice Inc is based in DC.