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End Citizens United Let America Vote Action Fund

The mission is to end big money in politics and protect the right to vote.

$34k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of END CITIZENS UNITED LET AMERICA VOTE ACTION FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $10,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $34,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,100 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$152k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND INC: $50k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement
2
Coalition for Dc Representation in Congress Education Fund

Founded in 1998, dc vote is a national citizen engagement and advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening democracy and securing equality for all in the district of columbia.

Education
3
RepresentUs Education Fund

Represent.Us Education Fund (RUEF) is a national, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) Organization working for a US government that is truly accountable to the people, not just the powerful. RUEF educates and unites people from all backgrounds to defend…

Public Benefit
4
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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5
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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6
Act for America

Advocacy concerning democratic values, national security and defense; lobbying of government officials in favor of policies that further the defense of the u.s. and its constitution; development of coalitions with other organizations to…

Civil Rights
7
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
8
Democracy Works Inc

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

Civil Rights
9
All Americans Vote

All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!

Civil Rights
10
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
11
Right Vote Inc
Civil Rights
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Defend the Vote Action Fund

To sustain and support the prioritization of comprehensive voting rights and democracy reform legislation at all levels of government.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way and the most unlike its peers is Oakland Fair Elections. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Pregnancy Support ServicesYouth Development ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%9%<5yr14%17%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr15%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%9%<5yr14%13%5–10yr18%30%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr15%20%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/38
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,963

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/33
Grantees still filing
14/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

END CITIZENS UNITED NON-FEDERAL — $1,275,000 · OtherEND CITIZENS UNITED NON-FEDERALCOMMON CAUSE — $650,000 · OtherCOMMON CAUSETHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $234,000 · OtherTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INCVOTEVETS ACTION FUND INC — $200,000 · OtherVOTEVETS ACTION FUND INCFor West Virginia's Future Inc — $140,000 · OtherUN-PAC ACTION — $121,200 · Other+12 more — $475,000 · Other+12 moreRepresentUs — $475,000 · Public BenefitRepresentUsPUBLIC CITIZEN INC — $275,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN INCDEMOCRACY 21 EDUCATION FUND — $237,500 · Public BenefitDEMOCRACY 21 EDUCATION FUN…Ground Game Texas — $200,000 · Public BenefitGround Game TexasCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $60,000 · Public BenefitNORTH FUND — $50,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $40,000 · Public BenefitMORE THAN A VOTE ACTION INC — $250,000 · Civil RightsMORE THAN A V…STAND UP AMERICA INC — $125,000 · Civil RightsSTAND UP AMER…LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CON…INDIVISIBLE PROJECT — $100,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE P…Stand Up Alaska — $30,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $29,000 · Civil RightsBUSINESS FORWARD INC — $450,000 · Community ImprovementGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $50,000 · Human ServicesCivic Nation — $25,000 · Education
Other$3,095,200Public Benefit$1,337,500Civil Rights$659,000Community Improvement$450,000Human Services$100,000Education$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMON CAUSE — $650,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetRepresentUs — $475,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetBUSINESS FORWARD INC — $450,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC — $275,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMORE THAN A VOTE ACTION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetDEMOCRACY 21 EDUCATION FUND — $237,500 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $234,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVOTEVETS ACTION FUND INC — $200,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGround Game Texas — $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFor West Virginia's Future Inc — $140,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSTAND UP AMERICA INC — $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUN-PAC ACTION — $121,200 over 1y, 15% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget603 FORWARD — $100,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetINDIVISIBLE PROJECT — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMCCE ACTION — $40,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetStand Up Alaska — $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMARCH ON — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCivic Nation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Social Impact — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOur Revolution — $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sixteen Thirty FundOpen Society Action F…Tides FoundationThe Heising-Simons Ac…Communications Worker…All Hands on Deck Net…Tides AdvocacyAmerica VotesHopewell FundPeople for the Americ…Fund for a Better Fut…New Venture Fund
Sixteen Thirty FundDC33.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · America Votes · Hopewell Fund · People for the American Way · Fund for a Better Future Inc · New Venture Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization End Citizens United Let America Vote Action Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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