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Institute for Responsive Government Inc
The institute for responsive government, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 244 grants below total $10,179,944 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,744,828 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $564,884 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k115 grants · $693k
- $10k–50k99 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+10 grants · $6.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARK COUNTY ELECTION DEPARTMENT | $1,350,000 |
| CITIES FORWARD INC | $1,300,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR LARGE ELECTION JURISDICT | $856,000 |
| INFORMING DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND | $600,000 |
| STRONG DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| CITY OF DETROIT | $350,000 |
| WASHOE COUNTY | $350,000 |
| BERNALILLO COUNTY | $350,000 |
| US DIGITAL RESPONSE | $250,000 |
| PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT | $250,000 |
| CENTER FOR CIVIC DESIGN | $238,000 |
| BOULDER COUNTY | $110,000 |
| COUNT MI VOTE EDUCATION FUND | $103,750 |
| CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS | $100,000 |
| DONA ANA COUNTY CLERK | $100,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…
The democracy integrity project (tdip) is a 501(c)4 nonprofit that provides research on matters of public interest to government entities, media, and other nonprofits to educate the public on matters such as foreign election interference,…
Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates
The democracy planning & enhancement fund works to strengthen democratic practice and uphold the constitution.
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
One for democracy unlocks resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time.
See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.
To protect democracy by advocating for policies to strenghten democracy, educating the public about threats to our democracy, and highlighting the unpopularity of federal policies that places money and power over the rights and freedom of…
Democracy matters was formed to connect and build a community of pro-democracy donors.
Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.
CEIR seeks to restore trust in the American election system and promote election procedures that encourage participation while ensuring election integrity and security.
The organizations mission is to build a central repository of research and information about how votes are counted and elections are certified in order to protect the integrity of our elections.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Work for America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partnership for Large Election Juri. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 245 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CITIES FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Partnership for Large Election Juri ↗
- Who funds INFORMING DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds STRONG DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds US DIGITAL RESPONSE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVIC DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds COUNT MI VOTE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds WORK FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Center for Technology and Civic Life · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · The Recycling Partnership Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · Battle Creek Community Foundation · Fair Food Network Inc · Grosse Pointe Public Safety Foundation · Henry Ford Health Providence Hospital · National Recreation and Park Association · Michigan Humanities Council · Democracy Fund 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 Institute for Responsive Government Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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