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SD Foundation

SD Foundation is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing expert analysis and research on current and proposed election-related law.

$828k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$825,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$825,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations SD Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$825k0%
FY20233$503k100%
FY20221$350kn/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$1.6MCrime & Legal$32kCivil Rights$21k

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
Secure Democracy USA$1,275,000228%
Free And Fair Elections USA Inc$350,000126%
Civil Survival Project$31,85511%
Center for Intercultural Organizing$21,00010%

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About SD Foundation

How much does SD Foundation give?
SD Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $827,515 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does SD Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (97%), Crime & Legal (2%), Civil Rights (1%).
Who are SD Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Secure Democracy USA ($1.3M), Free And Fair Elections USA Inc ($350k), Civil Survival Project ($32k).
Does SD Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is SD Foundation based?
SD Foundation is based in DC.

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 4 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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