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Pennsylvania Voice

PENNSYLVANIA VOICE works toward increasing overall participation in our democracy through increased education and mobilization.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$398k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$11MCivil Rights$851kHuman Services$604kEnvironment$418kYouth Development$202kCrime & Legal$159kCommunity Improvement$22k
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+2 grants · $702k
$75,178
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POWER INTERFAITH$398,031
ONEPA ACTIVISTS UNITED$303,496
COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAM RELATIONS RENNSYLVANIA$225,379
MAKE THE ROAD STATES$201,228
1 VOTE COUNTS INC$185,022
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER$175,556
CASA DE MARYLAND$146,267
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY$137,247
MOTHER'S OF INCARCERATED SONS$124,859
AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC$121,678
URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION$110,118
1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY$108,742
NEW VOICES FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE$100,998
CASA DE HARMONY$93,337
FREE MIGRATION PROJECT$86,235
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOORI CENTER: $45k → 7%CASA SAN JOSE: $23k → 11%YOUTH FOR CHANGE: $5k → 18%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $122k → 17%WOORI CENTER: $36k → 7%CASA SAN JOSE: $14k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $6k → 17%CASA SAN JOSE: $10k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $201k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $197k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $150k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $74k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $70k → 20%PROJECT HOME: $216k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $114k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $45k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $20k → 22%COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAM RELATIONS RENNSYLVANIA: $225k → 22%COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAM RELATIONS RENNSYLVANIA: $130k → 22%CAIR: $68k → 22%COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAM RELATIONS RENNSYLVANIA: $40k → 22%CAIR: $19k → 22%SEAMAAC: $139k → 22%SEAMAAC: $90k → 22%SEAMAAC: $57k → 22%SEAMAAC: $23k → 22%SEAMAAC: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 32 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
17

Total granted

$11M
$996k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+5%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $567k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +11%
  • CASA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $951k · revenue +244%
  • PI
    POWER INTERFAITH INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $926k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • MT
    Make the Road New York
    one grant, 2020 · $333k · revenue -21%
  • CI
    CAIR-FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $101k · revenue +101%
  • AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE
    one grant, 2022 · $96k · revenue -33%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
2
Community Justice Project

To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.

Crime & Legal
3
Lead Pa

Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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4
Pittsburgh United
Community Improvement
5
The Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal
6
New Pennsylvania Project

The New Pennsylvania Project (NPP) is a voting rights organization with a

Civil Rights
7
Pa Alliance Action

The PA Alliance Action seeks to advocate at the state level for democracy reform through grassroots activities and support of like-minded organizations on behalf of and in support of all Pennsylvanians, in particular historically…

Civil Rights
8
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
9
The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives

The commonwealth foundation transforms free-market ideas into public policies, empowering all pennsylvanians to thrive.

Public Benefit
10
Keystone Democracy

Keystone Democracy's goal is to ensure that all Pennsylvania elections are implemented in a safe, secure, convenient and fair manner. We work to advance pro-democracy policies by informing elected officials, civic leaders, the media, and…

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11
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights
12
Pa Alliance Foundation

Pa alliance foundation ("paaf") is a 501(c)(3) public charity that is focused on civic engagement and democracy advancement across pennsylvania, working to expand access to the ballot through non-partisan voter education and mobilization.…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Pennsylvania Activists United; the most unlike its peers is 1 Vote Counts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
32/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $3,146,363 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY …+2 more: $198,113 · Public Benefit+2 moreMake The Road States Inc: $692,123 · Human ServicesMake The Road Stat…CAIR-PENNSYLVANIA: $482,153 · Human ServicesCAIR-PENNSYLVANIAPROJECT HOME: $395,695 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMESOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $314,284 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN MU…AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $127,200 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITIE…WOORI CENTER: $81,076 · Human Services+2 more: $52,044 · Human ServicesCASA INC: $950,987 · OtherCASA INCURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $470,867 · OtherURBAN AFFAIRS COALITIONMOTHERS OF INCARCERATED SONS: $298,475 · OtherMOTHERS OF INCARCERATED SONSPenn Immigration & Citizenship Coalition: $134,489 · OtherGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $260,730 · OtherGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INCCITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE: $142,533 · Other1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $193,901 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $201,698 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INCMEN OF THE SOUTHEAST LEAGUE FIELD INC: $243,260 · OtherMEN OF THE SOUTHEAST LEAGUE FIEL…+15 more: $829,617 · Other+15 moreNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC: $396,207 · Civil RightsNEW VOICES PI…ONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED: $303,496 · Civil RightsONE PENNSYLVA…NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $151,213 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KORE…New PA Project Education Fund: $108,750 · Civil RightsNew PA Projec…CAIR-FOUNDATION INC: $100,590 · Civil RightsCAIR-FOUNDATI…BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY …ROCK THE VOTE ACTION FUND: $84,000 · Civil RightsROCK THE VOTE…FOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND: $78,840 · Civil RightsFair Elections Center: $72,250 · Civil Rights+5 more: $111,472 · Civil Rights+5 morePOWER INTERFAITH INC: $925,676 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTER…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $295,103 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT ST…+4 more: $52,000 · Community Improvement1 VOTE COUNTS: $570,195 · EducationMake the Road New York: $333,283 · Crime & LegalAMISTAD LAW PROJECT: $158,750 · Crime & Legal
Public Benefit$3,344,476Human Services$2,144,575Other$3,726,557Civil Rights$1,506,818Community Improvement$1,272,779Education$570,195Crime & Legal$492,033

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $3,146,363 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetCASA INC: $950,987 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC: $925,676 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetMake The Road States Inc: $692,123 over 5y, 2.0% of budget1 VOTE COUNTS: $570,195 over 5y, 57% of budgetCAIR-PENNSYLVANIA: $482,153 over 3y, 21% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $470,867 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC: $396,207 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $395,695 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMake the Road New York: $333,283 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $314,284 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED: $303,496 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $295,103 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $260,730 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMEN OF THE SOUTHEAST LEAGUE FIELD INC: $243,260 over 3y, 74% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $201,698 over 7y, 6.3% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $193,901 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetAMISTAD LAW PROJECT: $158,750 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $151,213 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE: $142,533 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $127,200 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNew PA Project Education Fund: $108,750 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc: $108,113 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC: $100,590 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE: $95,927 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFREE MIGRATION PROJECT: $86,235 over 1y, 17% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION: $82,100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOORI CENTER: $81,076 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetBHUTANESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH: $79,323 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND: $78,840 over 1y, 20% of budgetYOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE: $76,984 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFair Elections Center: $72,250 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE: $47,044 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK: $41,300 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $39,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FORBES FUNDS: $27,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND: $22,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCEIBA INC: $22,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $19,435 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPennsylvania United: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth for Change: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

PA Alliance FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The William Penn Foun…The Heinz EndowmentsNEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundSamuel S Fels FundScattergood Behaviora…Bread and Roses Commu…The Pittsburgh Founda…
PA Alliance FoundationPA47.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: PA Alliance Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Samuel S Fels Fund · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The Pittsburgh 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pennsylvania Voice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pennsylvania Voice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home