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Evidence for Impact
EVIDENCE FOR IMPACT's mission is to promote civic engagement and a stronger democracy by educating, encouraging, and enabling more americans to make their voices heard through elections and other institutional processes that ensure their representation and shape their future.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k3 grants · $550k
- $250k+22 grants · $140M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AB FOUNDATION | $40,400,000 |
| FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION | $38,250,000 |
| WORKING AMERICA | $16,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR VOTER INNOVATION | $11,500,000 |
| FF PAC | $10,200,000 |
| CIVIC TRUTH ACTION | $4,350,000 |
| UNRIG OUR ECONOMY INC | $3,000,000 |
| MTG RESEARCH INC | $2,627,600 |
| VOTERS OF THESE 50 STATES OF AMERICA | $2,000,000 |
| ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT | $1,960,000 |
| ACCELERATE ACTION INC | $1,800,000 |
| FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION | $1,540,000 |
| HEADCOUNT INC | $1,400,000 |
| WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND | $1,140,000 |
| VOTEVETS ACTION FUND INC | $1,050,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
To sustain and support the prioritization of comprehensive voting rights and democracy reform legislation at all levels of government.
Public agenda strengthens american democracy by connecting research to action enabling people and institutions to pursue changes that make a difference. we amplify the voices of americans and help communities discover and build on common…
To preserve and protect the sanctity of our vote by promoting commonsense, nonpartisan election security reforms that prevent hacking and fraud without restricting eligible citizens from accessing the polls.
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…
The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.
The Organization's mission is to restore trust in government by holding officials and groups accountable for corrupt and unethical behavior through investigation, legal action, and reporting.
Advance democracy, inc. is a non-partisan nonprofit that produces independent public-interest research and journalism to educate the public on important public matters. the organization conducts highly-technical, specialized research,…
All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Unrig Our Economy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION ↗
- Who funds UNRIG OUR ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds MTG RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION ↗
- Who funds HEAD COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds VOTEVETS ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACT NOW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Black Leadership Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds RAPID RESIST ACTION ↗
- Who funds BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds POWER TO THE POLLS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Bright Future Fund · America Votes · Future Forward USA Action · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · Advocacy Action Fund Inc · Our American Future Action · Tides Advocacy · Fair Democracy · Future Now Action · Brick by Brick Foundation
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 Evidence for Impact 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.
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.
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