· Public charity
RepresentUs Education Fund
Represent.Us Education Fund (RUEF) is a national, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) Organization working for a US government that is truly accountable to the people, not just the powerful.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $250k+1 grant · $514k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RepresentUs | $513,793 |
| Voter Choice Arizona | $40,000 |
| Oregon Center for Voting & Elections | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -19% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- RRepresentUs8× · 2017–2024 · $6.8M · revenue -36% · 46% of their budget
- VCVOTER CHOICE ARIZONA2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue -19%
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NONPARTISAN REFORMERS2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +19%
Funded once
The Trustees of Princeton Universityone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -34%- KOKEEP OUR REPUBLIC INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -100%
- EVEternal Vigilance Action Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +257%
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.
Securing reforms to the electoral count act
To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact
To strengthen democracy in the United States through an assessment of US voting systems and US election administration from the perspective of global best practices.
Support "yes" vote on referendum dealing with national popular vote
Democracy for America Advocacy Fund (DFA-AF) is a 501(c)(4) organization that advocates for fair, just, inclusive, and equitable public policies that benefit all, not just a few. DFA-AF was launched to take on structural democracy reform…
Ballot issue political action committee to advocate for the defeat of a constitutional amendment that would require a 60% threshold for any future constitutional amendments.
Research analyze publish information to public on elections election systems laws and campaign financing.
The common cause education fund employs research, outreach, educational programming, and coalition building to increase public understanding of how our democracy works, empower citizens to hold their government accountable, and promote…
Voter Protection Corps Foundation educates the public on how all eligible voters can participate in free and fair elections We provide nonpartisan education and resources to the public Our programs support community leaders volunteers and…
Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions
To support legal, political & administrative efforts to protect fair voting.
Upvote virginia is a democracy reform organization dedicated to elevating the voices of virginia voters through nonpartisan education, advocacy, and grassroots engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voter Choice Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Trustees of Princeton University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 RepresentUs ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds VOTER CHOICE ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds KEEP OUR REPUBLIC INC ↗
- Who funds Eternal Vigilance Action Inc ↗
- Who funds VOTER CHOICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON CENTER FOR VOTING & ELECTIONS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NONPARTISAN REFORMERS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CIVIC ALTERNATIVES ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE ↗
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: Unite America Institute Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 RepresentUs Education Fund 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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.