Washington, D.C. · Public charity
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 discourse.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $315,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,065,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Fair Democracy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $7.4M | 63% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $12M | 79% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $110k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $1.0M | 75% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $263k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forward Majority Action | $6,522,277 | 3 | n/a |
| Ab Foundation | $3,000,000 | 1 | 50% |
| North Star Prosperity | $3,000,000 | 2 | 46% |
| Votevets Action Fund Inc | $2,000,000 | 1 | 16% |
| New Day Nevada | $1,950,000 | 1 | 98% |
| Guarding Against Pandemics | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Voter Information | $552,410 | 3 | 10% |
| Better Pennsylvania Inc | $550,000 | 1 | 34% |
| The Wisconsin Initiative Inc | $450,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Forward Majority Action | $440,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forward Majority Action | $6,522,277 | 3 | n/a |
| Ab Foundation | $3,000,000 | 1 | 50% |
| North Star Prosperity | $3,000,000 | 2 | 46% |
| Votevets Action Fund Inc | $2,000,000 | 1 | 16% |
| New Day Nevada | $1,950,000 | 1 | 98% |
| Guarding Against Pandemics | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Voter Information | $552,410 | 3 | 10% |
| Better Pennsylvania Inc | $550,000 | 1 | 34% |
| The Wisconsin Initiative Inc | $450,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Forward Majority Action | $440,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prosperity Michigan Action Fund | $400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Barbed Wire Media | $315,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Freedom Virginia Inc | $270,000 | 2 | 19% |
| The American Independent Foundation | $260,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Maryland Rise Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 54% |
| American Independent Media | $200,000 | 2 | 89% |
| Committee to Protect Health Care | $150,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Georgia Values Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Future Forward USA Action | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $112,378 | 2 | 1% |
| America Votes | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lead Texas Forward Inc | $36,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Arizona Wins | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fair Democracy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hopewell Fund · Our American Future Action · Tides Foundation · Evidence for Impact · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · America Votes
How this is measured
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About Fair Democracy
- How much does Fair Democracy give?
- Fair Democracy reported 4 grants totaling $1,440,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Fair Democracy fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (62%), Civil Rights (18%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Fair Democracy's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Forward Majority Action ($6.5M), Ab Foundation ($3.0M), North Star Prosperity ($3.0M).
- Does Fair Democracy fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fair Democracy?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, Our American Future Action.
- Where is Fair Democracy based?
- Fair Democracy is based in DC.
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