How much does Fairvote give?

Fairvote reported 2 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Fairvote fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (93%), Environment (4%), Civil Rights (3%).

Who are Fairvote's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fairvote Washington ($168k), Maine Citizens for Clean Elections ($153k), Rank the Vote Inc ($150k).

Does Fairvote fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fairvote?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Unite America Institute Inc, Tides Foundation, New Venture Fund.

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Maryland · Public charity

Fairvote

FAIRVOTE is a nonpartisan organization seeking better elections for all. It researches and advances voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every american. Since 1992, it has a proven record as a nonpartisan innovator in elections at the local, state, and national level through strategic research,…

$35k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 2
Grants FY2024: 6
Organizations funded FY2023: 83%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $20,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 11; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $6.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Fairvote funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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	$35k	100%
FY2023	6	$249k	83%
FY2022	6	$305k	50%
FY2021	2	$40k	100%
FY2020	11	$204k	73%
FY2019	3	$82k	33%
FY2018	7	$213k	71%
FY2017	5	$33k	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, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.1MEnvironment$46kCivil Rights$35kSocial Science$1k

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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fairvote Washington	$168,350	2	57%
Maine Citizens for Clean Elections	$152,500	3	21%
Rank the Vote Inc	$150,000	2	5%
Fix Democracy First Education Fund	$113,955	4	34%
Fairvote Action	$109,000	3	24%
RepresentUs Education Fund	$50,000	1	1%
Unite America Institute Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Representwomen Inc	$50,000	1	6%
California RCV Institute Inc	$50,000	1	27%
Chainbreaker Collective	$39,000	1	23%

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All grantees of Fairvote by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fairvote Washington	$168,350	2	57%
Maine Citizens for Clean Elections	$152,500	3	21%
Rank the Vote Inc	$150,000	2	5%
Fix Democracy First Education Fund	$113,955	4	34%
Fairvote Action	$109,000	3	24%
RepresentUs Education Fund	$50,000	1	1%
Unite America Institute Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Representwomen Inc	$50,000	1	6%
California RCV Institute Inc	$50,000	1	27%
Chainbreaker Collective	$39,000	1	23%
Utah Valley University	$27,000	1	n/a
Save Irv Memphis	$25,850	1	n/a
State Democracy Project	$25,000	1	5%
Earth Care International Earth Care New Mexico	$20,000	1	18%
Rank Mi Vote	$20,000	1	n/a
Building Power for Communities of Color	$15,000	1	2%
Common Cause Education Fund	$15,000	1	0%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc	$12,150	1	0%
Voter Choice Education Fund Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Vermont Public Interest Research & Education Fund Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action	$7,500	1	2%
Kansas Dept of Health	$5,500	1	n/a
Loud Light	$5,500	1	1%
Alaska Public Interest Research Group	$5,000	1	1%
Equality State Policy Center	$5,000	1	2%
Alaska Community Action on Toxics	$5,000	1	0%
The Alaska Center Education Fund	$5,000	1	0%
Progressive Humboldt Coalition	$5,000	1	n/a
The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc	$3,000	3	0%
League of Women Voters of Santa Fe County	$1,500	1	n/a
Regents at University of California	$1,000	1	n/a

Fairvote supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 23.

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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.

Unite America Institute IncCO17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Unite America Institute Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Windward Fund · California Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Fairvote

How much does Fairvote give?: Fairvote reported 2 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Fairvote fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (93%), Environment (4%), Civil Rights (3%).
Who are Fairvote's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fairvote Washington ($168k), Maine Citizens for Clean Elections ($153k), Rank the Vote Inc ($150k).
Does Fairvote fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fairvote?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Unite America Institute Inc, Tides Foundation, New Venture Fund.
Where is Fairvote based?: Fairvote is based in MD.