How much does Fair Elections Center give?

Fair Elections Center reported 2 itemized grants totaling $16,000, out of $106,763 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.

What does Fair Elections Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (71%), Public Benefit (21%), Civil Rights (8%).

Who are Fair Elections Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Inc ($36k), University of Texas ($28k), Minnesota State College Student Association Inc ($17k).

Does Fair Elections Center fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fair Elections Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Fair Elections Center based?

Fair Elections Center is based in DC.

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Fair Elections Center

Fair Elections Center (fec) is a national, nonpartisan voting rights and election reform organization dedicated to safeguarding the future of our democracy through innovative efforts focused on voting rights and civic engagement. The center works to improve election and civic engagement. The center works to improve election…

$107k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 2
Itemized grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2022: 100%
First-time grantees FY2022

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Itemized, FY2024: $16k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 4; FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $5.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Fair Elections Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	2	$16k	100%
FY2022	3	$33k	100%
FY2020	1	$5k	100%
FY2019	2	$35k	0%
FY2018	4	$41k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$92kPublic Benefit$28kCivil Rights$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Inc	$36,450	2	0%
University of Texas	$27,500	2	n/a
Minnesota State College Student Association Inc	$16,500	1	2%
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Edward Waters University Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Foundation for California University of Pennsylvania	$6,000	1	0%
Morehouse College	$6,000	1	0%
Shippensburg University Foundation	$6,000	1	0%
Community College of Allegheny County Educational Foundation	$5,000	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fair Elections Center supplied at peak.

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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 9.

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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Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About Fair Elections Center

How much does Fair Elections Center give?: Fair Elections Center reported 2 itemized grants totaling $16,000, out of $106,763 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Fair Elections Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (71%), Public Benefit (21%), Civil Rights (8%).
Who are Fair Elections Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Inc ($36k), University of Texas ($28k), Minnesota State College Student Association Inc ($17k).
Does Fair Elections Center fund new organizations?: In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fair Elections Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Fair Elections Center based?: Fair Elections Center is based in DC.