How much does State Democracy Project give?

State Democracy Project reported 26 grants totaling $46,903,090 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does State Democracy Project fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (93%), Health (3%), Civil Rights (3%).

Who are State Democracy Project's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Working Families Organization Inc ($48M), Pro-Democracy Campaign ($11M), Be a Hero Education Fund Inc ($2.2M).

Does State Democracy Project fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as State Democracy Project?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, New Venture Fund, Windward Fund.

Where is State Democracy Project based?

State Democracy Project is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

State Democracy Project

The STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT dedicates itself to serving the general public and policy makers regarding the need to iteratively improve american democracy by encouraging increased citizen participation in elections and policy-making, as well as more responsive government institutions at the local, state and federal levels.

$47M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2024: 5
Organizations funded FY2023: 40%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $137,984
Largest grant, FY2024: $29,888,301
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 9; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 15
Total assets, FY2024: $5.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations State Democracy Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	25	$47M	76%
FY2023	5	$17M	40%
FY2022	8	$1.9M	25%
FY2021	7	$197k	86%
FY2020	9	$340k	89%
FY2019	3	$160k	67%
FY2018	1	$385k	0%
FY2017	1	$1.1M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$63MHealth$2.3MCivil Rights$2.1MPhilanthropy$398kCommunity Improvement$125kHuman Services$80kEducation$50k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Working Families Organization Inc	$47,656,628	4	58%
Pro-Democracy Campaign	$10,956,750	2	65%
Be a Hero Education Fund Inc	$2,218,875	3	75%
State Democracy Action	$1,570,000	3	73%
New Georgia Project Inc	$1,000,000	1	7%
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada	$500,000	1	18%
Un-Pac Action	$443,000	3	100%
Black Male Initiative Georgia Inc	$400,000	1	9%
Wisdom Inc	$380,000	1	9%
State Democracy Project	$366,685	1	1%

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All grantees of State Democracy Project by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Working Families Organization Inc	$47,656,628	4	58%
Pro-Democracy Campaign	$10,956,750	2	65%
Be a Hero Education Fund Inc	$2,218,875	3	75%
State Democracy Action	$1,570,000	3	73%
New Georgia Project Inc	$1,000,000	1	7%
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada	$500,000	1	18%
Un-Pac Action	$443,000	3	100%
Black Male Initiative Georgia Inc	$400,000	1	9%
Wisdom Inc	$380,000	1	9%
State Democracy Project	$366,685	1	1%
Carolina Federation Fund	$300,000	1	10%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc	$255,000	2	0%
Center for Community Change	$200,000	1	0%
Grassroots Arkansas	$137,984	1	n/a
People's Action Institute	$125,000	1	1%
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative	$100,000	1	1%
Voces de la Frontera Inc	$100,000	1	2%
Pennsylvania Voice	$76,777	2	1%
America Votes	$75,000	2	0%
Florida Rising Together Inc	$75,000	2	1%
Michigan Voices	$74,525	2	1%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund Inc	$70,000	1	3%
Tides Advocacy	$65,477	2	0%
Citizen Action of New York Inc	$60,000	1	4%
One Arizona	$50,000	1	0%
Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Inc	$50,000	1	6%
Arizona Advocacy Foundation	$50,000	1	2%
Women Uprising	$43,083	2	n/a
Planned Parenthood of Michigan	$42,622	2	0%
Hmong American Womens Association Inc	$39,271	2	1%
Takeaction Mn Education Fund	$30,000	1	1%
Make the Road New York	$25,000	1	0%
Arizona Center for Empowerment	$25,000	1	0%
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Ruralorganizing-Dot-Org Education Fund	$25,000	1	2%
Freedom Righteous Organizing Collaborative	$25,000	1	2%
Maine People's Resource Center	$25,000	1	0%
The Ole Education Fund	$25,000	1	1%
State Voices	$10,000	1	0%
Innovation Ohio Education Fund	$10,000	1	2%

State Democracy Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 38.

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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.

Tides FoundationCA36.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Windward Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Working Families Organization Inc · State Voices · Impactassetsinc · Solidago Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Telescope Fund · Center for Community Change

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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About State Democracy Project

How much does State Democracy Project give?: State Democracy Project reported 26 grants totaling $46,903,090 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does State Democracy Project fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (93%), Health (3%), Civil Rights (3%).
Who are State Democracy Project's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Working Families Organization Inc ($48M), Pro-Democracy Campaign ($11M), Be a Hero Education Fund Inc ($2.2M).
Does State Democracy Project fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as State Democracy Project?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, New Venture Fund, Windward Fund.
Where is State Democracy Project based?: State Democracy Project is based in NY.