· Public charity
Promote the Vote Fund Inc
Promote the vote fund will conduct research and educate the public on issues related to expanding the electorate, voting rights, redistricting reform, election protection in michigan, and advocating on behalf of those issues to the extent that no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN VOICE | $600,000 |
| WARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITAN | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $615k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LOLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN INC2× · 2022–2023 · $245k · revenue +16% · 97% of their budget
- AAASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN2× · 2022–2023 · $206k · revenue +58%
- MIMIIGWECH INC2× · 2022–2023 · $195k
Funded once
NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +39%- MJMOTHERING JUSTICEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +129%
- MUMICHIGAN UNITED CONSERVATION CLUBSone grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue -21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Voter education around policy
To provide policy expertise, political acumen, and broad-based relationships across the political spectrum to propel the mission, which is to achieve full equality and respect for all michgan residents, regardless of sexual orientation,…
Michigan Liberation is dedicated to the leadership development of community members and creation of effective campaigns to advance racial, gender and economic justice in Michigan
To empower students in Michigan's higher education institutions to take leadership in their community and increase their participation in the democratic process. We strengthen students' voices in developing and advocating for legislation…
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
Works to end environmental injustice by empowering communities at the grassroots level.the corporation is organzied exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the makeing of…
A non-partisan political organization that works to elect and hold accountable public officials who will champion a healthy and vital michigan by preserving and protecting our air, land and water.
To organize, train, and educate communities throughout Michigan to promote racial and economic justice; facilitate relationships between community leaders from rural, suburban, and urban communities across Michigan and strengthen…
Progress Michigan Education is a non-partisan, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that promotes solutions for michigan through independent research, public education and the use of new media and internet outreach campaigns.
To guide communities toward being more energy efficient and sustainable through our expertise, our programs, and our effect on decision makers, business leaders, and residents of michigan.
To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.
Promoting community welfare and providing community education in michigan by increasing voter participation through nonpartisan research and voter mobilization; increasing voter awareness of public policy issues through nonpartisan…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Voices and the most unlike its peers is Warriors On Wheels of Metropolitan Detroit. 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 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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
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 MICHIGAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MIIGWECH INC ↗
- Who funds COUNT MI VOTE ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROACTIVE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN UNITED CONSERVATION CLUBS ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH) ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Emgage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds LGBT Detroit ↗
- Who funds 482 FORWARD ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
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: Michigan Voices · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Michigan Civic Education Fund · State Voices · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Michigan Nonprofit Association · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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 Promote the Vote Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.