How much does Democracyfirst give?

Democracyfirst reported 5 grants totaling $1,625,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.

What does Democracyfirst fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (93%), Civil Rights (5%), Human Services (1%).

Who are Democracyfirst's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Democracyfirst ($1.1M), Common Sense New York ($900k), Progress Now Inc ($750k).

Does Democracyfirst fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Democracyfirst?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Tides Advocacy.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Democracyfirst

DEMOCRACYFIRST is a 501(c)4 dedicated to restoring public trust in the electoral system, protecting free and fair elections, and renewing the pro-democracy consensus in american politics.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 5
Grants FY2025: 5
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 24; FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Democracyfirst funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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
FY2025still arriving	5	$1.6M	60%
FY2024	5	$910k	100%
FY2023	24	$5.8M	79%
FY2022	20	$3.4M	n/a

100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Public Benefit$11MCivil Rights$640kHuman Services$100kHealth$50k

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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Democracyfirst	$1,150,000	2	n/a
Common Sense New York	$900,000	2	n/a
Progress Now Inc	$750,000	1	28%
Activate 48 Education Fund	$750,000	1	35%
Promote the Vote Inc	$650,000	1	n/a
America Votes	$640,000	2	1%
Faith in Minnesota	$600,000	2	25%
Future Forward USA Action	$500,000	1	1%
Citizen Action of New York Inc	$450,000	1	28%
Our Voice Our Vote Arizona	$425,000	2	14%

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All grantees of Democracyfirst by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Democracyfirst	$1,150,000	2	n/a
Common Sense New York	$900,000	2	n/a
Progress Now Inc	$750,000	1	28%
Activate 48 Education Fund	$750,000	1	35%
Promote the Vote Inc	$650,000	1	n/a
America Votes	$640,000	2	1%
Faith in Minnesota	$600,000	2	25%
Future Forward USA Action	$500,000	1	1%
Citizen Action of New York Inc	$450,000	1	28%
Our Voice Our Vote Arizona	$425,000	2	14%
Ohio Progressive Collaborative	$400,000	1	13%
Voces de la Frontera Action Inc	$350,000	2	10%
Florida Rising Inc	$300,000	1	10%
Michigan Civic Action Fund	$275,000	1	3%
A Better Big Sky	$250,000	1	12%
Pa Alliance Action	$250,000	1	7%
The Ohio Organizing Campaign	$200,000	1	9%
Pro-Democracy Campaign	$200,000	1	1%
Pennsylvania United	$200,000	1	5%
Texas Freedom Network	$200,000	1	8%
New Pennsylvania Project	$150,000	1	8%
North Carolina a Philip Randolph Educational Fund	$150,000	1	23%
Asian Pacific Islander Political Al Liance	$150,000	1	n/a
Tides Advocacy	$150,000	2	0%
American Independent Media	$125,000	1	2%
Women4us	$100,000	1	n/a
Progress North Carolina Action	$100,000	1	6%
Action Together Nepa	$100,000	1	14%
Un-Pac Action	$100,000	1	15%
Care in Action Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Michigan Liberation	$100,000	1	n/a
Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc	$100,000	1	3%
New Rural Project	$100,000	1	12%
Defend the Vote Action Fund	$100,000	1	11%
Wisdom Action Network Inc	$100,000	1	13%
Living United for Change in Arizona	$100,000	1	3%
Arizona Wins	$100,000	1	7%
For Our Future Action Fund	$60,000	1	1%
Nextgen Climate Action	$60,000	1	1%
Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Center for Empowered Politics	$50,000	1	1%
Poder Nc Action	$50,000	1	3%
Independent Arizona	$45,000	1	22%
Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Defending Main Street Super PAC	$25,000	1	n/a
Better Nevada PAC	$20,000	1	n/a
Michigan Democratic State Central Committee	$15,000	1	n/a

Democracyfirst supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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 38.

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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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC61.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Tides Advocacy · Open Society Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Tides Foundation · North Fund · Women Donors Network Action · Center for Community Change Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc

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 Democracyfirst

How much does Democracyfirst give?: Democracyfirst reported 5 grants totaling $1,625,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Democracyfirst fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (93%), Civil Rights (5%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Democracyfirst's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Democracyfirst ($1.1M), Common Sense New York ($900k), Progress Now Inc ($750k).
Does Democracyfirst fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Democracyfirst?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Tides Advocacy.
Where is Democracyfirst based?: Democracyfirst is based in DC.