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Public Wise Research and Education Fund

The organization conducts nonpartisan, nonprofit, polling and research to fill the gaps in voter and voting rights research to complement ongoing studies being conducted by others in the field.

$341k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$315k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 16
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$526k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Public Wise Research and Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$315k50%
FY20239$460k44%
FY202216$1.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.4MCivil Rights$300kPhilanthropy$200kEducation$100kReligion$23kArts & Culture$12k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum$200,00031%
American Oversight Inc$175,00031%
Fair Elections Center$150,00022%
Fair Count Inc$125,00031%
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote$125,00021%
Democracy North Carolina$125,00022%
Adrc Action$100,00012%
Head Count Inc$100,00012%
Civic Nation$100,00010%
Pennsylvania Voice$75,00011%
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Public Wise Research and Education Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum$200,00031%
American Oversight Inc$175,00031%
Fair Elections Center$150,00022%
Fair Count Inc$125,00031%
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote$125,00021%
Democracy North Carolina$125,00022%
Adrc Action$100,00012%
Head Count Inc$100,00012%
Civic Nation$100,00010%
Pennsylvania Voice$75,00011%
Arizona Center for Empowerment$75,00011%
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd$75,00011%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$50,00010%
Up to US Inc$50,000135%
Poder in Action$50,00011%
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc$40,00020%
Generation Vote Action$30,0001n/a
Arizona Native Vote$25,00012%
Drag Out the Vote$25,000119%
Voteriders$25,00011%
Voteorg$25,00011%
NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc$25,00010%
Repairers of the Breach$23,00011%
Black Wall USA$12,0001n/a
New York University$10,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Public Wise Research and Education Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Asian Pacific American Women's Forum: $200,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Oversight Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFair Elections Center: $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFair Count Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $125,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina: $125,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAdrc Action: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHead Count Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCivic Nation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPennsylvania Voice: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetArizona Center for Empowerment: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDemos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUp to US Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetPoder in Action: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Carolina Black Alliance Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetArizona Native Vote: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDrag Out the Vote: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetVoteriders: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVoteorg: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNAACP Empowerment Programs Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRepairers of the Breach: $23,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA20.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Public Wise Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Overbrook Foundation · All Hands on Deck Network 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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How do I get to Public Wise Research and Education Fund?

Find your warmest path to Public Wise Research and Education Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Public Wise Research and Education Fund

How much does Public Wise Research and Education Fund give?
Public Wise Research and Education Fund reported 10 itemized grants totaling $315,000, out of $341,024 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Public Wise Research and Education Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (69%), Civil Rights (15%), Philanthropy (10%).
Who are Public Wise Research and Education Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum ($200k), American Oversight Inc ($175k), Fair Elections Center ($150k).
Does Public Wise Research and Education Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Public Wise Research and Education Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, New Venture Fund, Rockefeller Family Fund Inc.
Where is Public Wise Research and Education Fund based?
Public Wise Research and Education Fund is based in NY.

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 27 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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