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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2021 to 2023.

Public Benefit$4.2MCivil Rights$1.4MEnvironment$100kCommunity Improvement$35k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $34,100 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,100 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.
$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

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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Its 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 its 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
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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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
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
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 38 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/33
Grantees still filing
14/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…INDIVISIBLE PROJECT: $100,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE P…LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CON…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 ImprovementREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $50,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $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 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 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 budgetGround Game Texas: $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVOTEVETS ACTION FUND INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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 budgetINDIVISIBLE PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget603 FORWARD: $100,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMCCE ACTION: $40,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetMARCH ON: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStand Up Alaska: $30,000 over 1y, 11% 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 budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Social Impact: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOur Revolution: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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

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 End Citizens United Let America Vote Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from End Citizens United Let America Vote Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%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
    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
    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 38 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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