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Fairvote

FAIRVOTE is a nonpartisan organization seeking better elections for all.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$1.1MEnvironment$46kCivil Rights$35kSocial Science$1k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RANK MI VOTE$20,000
BUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON: $88k → 9%FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON: $80k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
ME
VT
WA
MI
MA
OR
WY
CA
UT
CO
MD
NM
KS
TN
DC
HI
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$697k · 6 repeat orgs$465k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
23

Total granted

$697k
$430k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+64%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCivil RightsEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MC
    Maine Citizens for Clean Elections
    3× · 2017–2022 · $153k · revenue +158%
  • RT
    RANK THE VOTE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +85%
  • FA
    FAIRVOTE ACTION
    3× · 2017–2022 · $109k · revenue ×24

Funded once

  • UA
    UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +150%
  • CR
    California RCV Institute Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -13% · 27% of their budget
  • RE
    RepresentUs Education Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement
2
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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3
Right Vote Inc
Civil Rights
4
Coalition for Dc Representation in Congress Education Fund

Founded in 1998, dc vote is a national citizen engagement and advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening democracy and securing equality for all in the district of columbia.

Education
5
RepresentUs

RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…

Public Benefit
6
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…

Civil Rights
7
Electoral Collective

Electoral Collective coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights
8
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
9
Oregon Center for Voting & Elections

To teach the general public how ranked choice voting works and to promote the benefits of using it in elections.

Civil Rights
10
The Center for Election Innovation & Research

CEIR seeks to restore trust in the American election system and promote election procedures that encourage participation while ensuring election integrity and security.

Civil Rights
11
ProRep Coalition

To enable multiparty democracy in California through education and coalition-building for proportional representation.

Civil Rights
12
Presidential Election Project Inc

Securing reforms to the electoral count act

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairvote Action and the most unlike its peers is Earth Care International Earth Care New Mexico. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%41%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%43%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/31
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,534

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 31 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Maine Citizens for Clean Elections — $152,500 · Civil RightsMaine Citizens for Clean Election…FIX DEMOCRACY FIRST EDUCATION FUND — $113,955 · Civil RightsFIX DEMOCRACY FIRST EDUCATION FUN…REPRESENTWOMEN INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsREPRESENTWOMEN INCBUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $15,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $12,150 · Civil RightsRANK THE VOTE INC — $150,000 · EducationRANK THE VOTE INCCalifornia RCV Institute Inc — $50,000 · EducationCalifornia RCV Insti…VOTER CHOICE EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 · EducationFAIRVOTE WASHINGTON — $168,350 · Human ServicesFAIRVOTE WASHINGTONCHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE — $39,000 · Human ServicesCHAINBREAKER COLLECT…FAIRVOTE ACTION — $109,000 · OtherFAIRVOTE ACTIONUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY — $27,000 · OtherUTAH VALLEY UNIVERS…SAVE IRV MEMPHIS — $25,850 · OtherSAVE IRV MEMPHISRANK MI VOTE — $20,000 · OtherRANK MI VOTE+4 more — $13,000 · Other+4 moreUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · Public BenefitUNITE AMERICA I…RepresentUs Education Fund — $50,000 · Public BenefitRepresentUs Edu…STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $25,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMOCRACY…COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $15,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE ED…Loud Light — $5,500 · Public Benefit+3 more — $13,000 · Public Benefit+3 moreEARTH CARE INTERNATIONAL EARTH CARE NEW MEXICO — $20,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 · EnvironmentALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS — $5,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION — $7,500 · Community Improvement
Civil Rights$343,605Education$210,000Human Services$207,350Other$194,850Public Benefit$158,500Environment$40,000Community Improvement$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAIRVOTE WASHINGTON — $168,350 over 2y, 57% of budgetMaine Citizens for Clean Elections — $152,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetRANK THE VOTE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFIX DEMOCRACY FIRST EDUCATION FUND — $113,955 over 4y, 34% of budgetFAIRVOTE ACTION — $109,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia RCV Institute Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetREPRESENTWOMEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE — $39,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetEARTH CARE INTERNATIONAL EARTH CARE NEW MEXICO — $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $12,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION — $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLoud Light — $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAlaska Public Interest Research Group — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Unite America Institu…Tides FoundationNew Venture FundWindward FundCalifornia Community …ImpactassetsincAmalgamated Charitabl…Boston Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
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

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 Fairvote 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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