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Fair Count Inc

Fair count builds long-term power within historically undercounted communities. With the census as our north star, we use every iteration of civic participation as a catalyst to build a more equitable democracy.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
79%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,482,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,482,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 24
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 79% of the organizations Fair Count Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$1.5M0%
FY202424$5.3M79%
FY202313$594k92%
FY20212$126k100%
FY202011$415kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$5.0MPublic Benefit$955kPhilanthropy$148kInternational$122kFood & Nutrition$93kCrime & Legal$50kReligion$25kHuman Services$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Fair Count Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Defending American Values Coalition$6,467,500267%
National Conference on Citizenship$250,00032%
Institute of Church Administration and Management$155,0001n/a
Georgia Legislative Black Caucus Inc$77,500220%
United Way Association of South Carolina Inc$70,00011%
Southern Rural Black Womens Initiative for Economic and Social Justice Inc$69,60022%
The Lighthouse Black Girl Project$63,50023%
Twin Forks Rising Community Development Corp$60,150223%
Mississippi Center for Justice$50,00011%
Mississippi Coalition on Black Civic Participation$50,00012%
The Roosevelt Institute$48,00020%
Arone M Washington Foundation$34,625297%
Mississippi M O V E$30,000125%
Pastors United Community Advocacy Inc$25,00011%
Medgar & Angela Scott Foundation$24,450215%
La Brega Y Fuerza Fund Inc$20,00016%
Make The Road States Inc$20,00010%
Democracy North Carolina$20,00010%
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc$20,00010%
Southwest Ga Project for Community Education Inc$17,00011%
Mijente Support Committee$15,00011%
Urban League of Greater Columbus Inc$12,00012%
Wisdom Inc$12,00010%
Sowega Rising$10,50011%
A Better Glynn Inc$10,0001n/a
Georgia Community Development Association Inc$10,0001n/a
Southern Echo Inc$10,0001n/a
Hmong American Womens Association Inc$10,00011%
Migrant Equity Southeast Inc$10,00011%
South Georgia Voters League Inc$10,0001n/a
Feeding the Valley Inc$10,00010%
Americans for Indian Opportunity$10,00012%
Public Allies Inc$10,00010%
Lifeline Baptist Church$10,0001n/a
Peach Concerned Citizens Inc$5,50013%
Ncnw State of Georgia Coalition$5,5001n/a
Jesus First Christian Community$5,5001n/a
Clay County Family Connection Inc$5,0001n/a
Gud Life Flow Inc$5,0001n/a
Woodlawn United Inc$5,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($147k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Fair Count Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDefending American Values Coalition: $6,467,500 over 2y, 67% of budgetNational Conference on Citizenship: $250,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGeorgia Legislative Black Caucus Inc: $77,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetUnited Way Association of South Carolina Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouthern Rural Black Womens Initiative for Economic and Social Justice Inc: $69,600 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetThe Lighthouse Black Girl Project: $63,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTwin Forks Rising Community Development Corp: $60,150 over 2y, 23% of budgetMississippi Center for Justice: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMississippi Coalition on Black Civic Participation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Roosevelt Institute: $48,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArone M Washington Foundation: $34,625 over 2y, 97% of budgetMississippi M O V E: $30,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPastors United Community Advocacy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMedgar & Angela Scott Foundation: $24,450 over 2y, 15% of budgetLa Brega Y Fuerza Fund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMake The Road States Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGeorgia Alliance Education Fund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthwest Ga Project for Community Education Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMijente Support Committee: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUrban League of Greater Columbus Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWisdom Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSowega Rising: $10,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHmong American Womens Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMigrant Equity Southeast Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmericans for Indian Opportunity: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPublic Allies Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeach Concerned Citizens Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWoodlawn United Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 30.

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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.

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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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Find your warmest path to Fair Count Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Fair Count Inc

How much does Fair Count Inc give?
Fair Count Inc reported 1 grants totaling $1,482,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Fair Count Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (78%), Public Benefit (15%), Philanthropy (2%).
Who are Fair Count Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Defending American Values Coalition ($6.5M), National Conference on Citizenship ($250k), Institute of Church Administration and Management ($155k).
Does Fair Count Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fair Count Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc, New Venture Fund, NEO Philanthropy Inc.
Where is Fair Count Inc based?
Fair Count Inc is based in GA.

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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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