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Democracy Fund Voice Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$825k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $4.2M
  • $250k+20 grants · $8.3M
$200,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc$825,000
Campaign for Community Change$793,041
Common Defense Civic Engagement$770,000
Local Progress Policy Action$700,000
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Inc$500,000
Field Foundation of Illinois Inc$400,000
Tides Advocacy$400,000
Public Citizen Inc$375,000
Right to Democracy Action$350,000
Working Families Organization Inc$350,000
Defending Democracy Together$350,000
Sixteen Thirty Fund$300,000
SPLC Action Fund$300,000
Tides Advocacy$300,000
Progressnow Arizona$300,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $895k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Living United for Change in Arizona: $250k → 11%Welcoming America Inc: $90k → 14%Living United for Change in Arizona: $100k → 11%NILC Immigrant Justice Fund: $100k → 14%Living United for Change in Arizona: $100k → 11%NILC Immigrant Justice Fund: $100k → 14%Living United for Change in Arizona: $75k → 11%Living United for Change in Arizona: $50k → 11%Living United for Change in Arizona: $10k → 11%Tides Center: $20k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Democracy Fund Voice Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Democracy Fund Voice Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 58 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
37

Total granted

$46M
$6.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

88%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DD
    DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +464% · 48% of their budget
  • PC
    PUBLIC CITIZEN INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +238%
  • SU
    STAND UP REPUBLIC INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +24% · 78% of their budget

Funded once

  • RF
    RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue -16%
  • PT
    Promote the Vote 2022
    one grant, 2022 · $650k
  • RT
    RESET TECH ACTION
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · 50% of their budget
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.

04Its 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.

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Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
2
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
3
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
4
Democracy Forward

See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.

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5
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
6
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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7
Fair Democracy

Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…

Civil Rights
8
One for Democracy Action Fund

One for democracy unlocks resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time.

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9
Register America

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.

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10
Fdd Action

FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement
11
Secure Democracy Usa

Secure Democracy USA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to build stronger elections, state by state.

Civil Rights
12
Issue One Action

Issue one action is uniting republicans, democrats, and independents to protect our elections and fix our political system. we are committed to free, fair, and secure elections and reducing the influence of well-financed special interests…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Democracy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Field Foundation of Illinois. 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

111 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. 111 of the 125 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/111
Grantees still filing
52/111
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER: $4,750,000 · OtherDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHERSTAND UP REPUBLIC INC: $2,225,000 · OtherSTAND UP REPUBLIC INCTIDES ADVOCACY: $1,825,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYPROTECT DEMOCRACY UNITED: $1,650,000 · OtherPROTECT DEMOCRACY UNITEDTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,450,000 · OtherBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC: $1,300,000 · Other+61 more: $16,354,000 · Other+61 moreSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $16,295,000 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THIRTY FUNDNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $2,495,000 · Civil RightsNEO Philanthropy Acti…FREE PRESS ACTION FUND: $1,575,000 · Civil RightsFREE PRESS ACTION FUN…WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $1,300,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGA…ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION: $900,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH AC…LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION: $900,000 · Civil RightsLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY…FLORIDA RISING INC: $885,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INCADRC ACTION: $860,000 · Civil RightsADRC ACTIONSIX ACTION: $750,000 · Civil Rights+22 more: $5,636,000 · Civil Rights+22 moreNORTH FUND: $5,580,000 · Public BenefitNORTH FUNDPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $2,700,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN INCCOMMON DEFENSE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON DEFENSE CIVI…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $793,041 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR COMMUNIT…RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND: $750,000 · Public BenefitRUN FOR SOMETHING A…DEMAND JUSTICE: $600,000 · Public BenefitGlobal Impact Social Welfare Fund: $500,000 · Public Benefit+7 more: $1,760,000 · Public Benefit+7 moreFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $800,000 · EducationPlanetwork: $585,000 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTE: $320,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $250,000 · EducationVALUES UNITED: $200,000 · EducationReThink Media: $125,000 · Education+1 more: $60,000 · EducationBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC: $1,740,000 · Community ImprovementNISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $400,000 · Community ImprovementTRUMAN NATIONAL SECURITY PROJECT: $895,000 · InternationalADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC: $325,000 · InternationalSECURE FAMILIES INITIATIVE: $155,000 · InternationalMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · International
Other$29,554,000Environment$16,295,000Civil Rights$15,301,000Public Benefit$13,683,041Education$2,340,000Community Improvement$2,140,000International$1,430,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $16,295,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetNORTH FUND: $5,580,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER: $4,750,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $2,700,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc: $2,495,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetSTAND UP REPUBLIC INC: $2,225,000 over 5y, 78% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $1,825,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC: $1,740,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY UNITED: $1,650,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetFREE PRESS ACTION FUND: $1,575,000 over 6y, 51% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,450,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC: $1,300,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $1,300,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMON DEFENSE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION: $900,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION: $900,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTRUMAN NATIONAL SECURITY PROJECT: $895,000 over 3y, 90% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $885,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetADRC ACTION: $860,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $800,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $800,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $793,041 over 1y, 12% of budgetRUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND: $750,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSIX ACTION: $750,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION: $700,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL STATES GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COUNCIL: $700,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $700,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetRight To Democracy Action: $650,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDEMAND JUSTICE: $600,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetPlanetwork: $585,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $585,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $575,000 over 2y, 90% of budgetPAY OUR INTERNS ACTION FUND: $570,000 over 5y, 92% of budgetTHE CONGRESSIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $550,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetDEFENDING DIGITAL CAMPAIGNS INC: $550,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetRESET TECH ACTION: $500,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetOne Person One Vote: $500,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSPLC ACTION FUND: $500,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetPROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE: $500,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetGlobal Impact Social Welfare Fund: $500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSTATE POWER ACTION FUND: $500,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetPODER NC ACTION: $460,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetRoss Initiative in Sports for Equality: $450,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetVOTE MAMA ACTION FUND INC: $410,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetAlaskans for Better Elections: $400,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSecure Democracy: $400,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMULTICULTURAL MEDIA & CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION: $400,000 over 2y, 83% 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.

Open Society Action F…Sixteen Thirty FundOur American Future A…Way to Win Action Fun…Instructional Telecom…Tides AdvocacyNorth FundAll Hands on Deck Net…Women Donors Network …NEO Philanthropy Acti…Grove Action FundThe Heising-Simons Ac…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Democracy Fund Voice Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Democracy Fund Voice Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 125 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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