How much does State Leadership Project give?

State Leadership Project reported 33 grants totaling $11,283,765 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.

What does State Leadership Project fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (66%), Public Benefit (23%), Philanthropy (7%).

Who are State Leadership Project's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Strategic Victory Fund ($19M), Goodnation Foundation Inc ($1.5M), Project 68 Education Fund Inc ($1.0M).

Does State Leadership Project fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as State Leadership Project?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Committee on States, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Foundation.

Where is State Leadership Project based?

State Leadership Project is based in NC.

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North Carolina · Public charity

State Leadership Project

STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT (slp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that strengthens civic infrastructure by supporting the charitable efforts of state-based donor alliances and funder communities. Slp helps build, resource, and sustain long-term investment in the people and systems that make democracy workadvancing equity,…

$11M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 33
Grants FY2024: 38
Organizations funded FY2022: 53%
First-time grantees FY2022

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Median grant, FY2024: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $7,367,765
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 38; FY2019 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024: 31
Total assets, FY2024: $3.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 53% of the organizations State Leadership Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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	31	$11M	29%
FY2022	38	$7.3M	53%
FY2021	27	$4.8M	48%
FY2020	21	$5.9M	52%
FY2019	21	$705k	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, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$20MPublic Benefit$6.9MPhilanthropy$2.0MCivil Rights$861kCommunity Improvement$150kArts & Culture$141kEnvironment$70kEducation$46k

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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Strategic Victory Fund	$18,638,277	5	25%
Goodnation Foundation Inc	$1,500,000	1	7%
Project 68 Education Fund Inc	$1,020,400	1	98%
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc	$487,500	3	42%
Faith in Indiana	$420,000	2	20%
Imagine North Carolina First	$360,000	4	4%
Arkansas Values Institute Inc	$275,000	4	24%
Civic Tn	$260,000	2	21%
Alabama Alliance Network	$250,000	2	53%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$245,000	5	0%

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All grantees of State Leadership Project by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Strategic Victory Fund	$18,638,277	5	25%
Goodnation Foundation Inc	$1,500,000	1	7%
Project 68 Education Fund Inc	$1,020,400	1	98%
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc	$487,500	3	42%
Faith in Indiana	$420,000	2	20%
Imagine North Carolina First	$360,000	4	4%
Arkansas Values Institute Inc	$275,000	4	24%
Civic Tn	$260,000	2	21%
Alabama Alliance Network	$250,000	2	53%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$245,000	5	0%
Colorado Democracy Network	$205,000	6	29%
Win Minnesota	$205,000	6	2%
Michigan Civic Education Fund	$200,000	4	38%
North Star Prosperity	$200,000	1	4%
New Day Nevada	$200,000	2	2%
Freedom Virginia Inc	$196,000	1	14%
For West Virginia's Future Inc	$190,000	6	12%
Arkansas Values Inc	$180,000	2	30%
Oklahoma Donor Alliance Inc	$175,000	3	45%
Alliance for a Better Iowa	$175,000	3	21%
Utah Donor Collaborative	$175,000	3	28%
Maine People's Resource Center	$165,000	1	5%
Blueprint North Carolina	$162,500	1	1%
Nevada Alliance	$155,000	5	15%
Pa Alliance Action	$150,000	3	3%
Washington Progress Fund	$145,000	3	4%
Missouri Win	$145,000	4	9%
Lexington Observer Inc	$141,000	1	3%
Alliance for a Better North Dakota	$140,000	4	19%
A Better Big Sky	$135,000	4	16%
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund	$135,000	4	5%
Indiana Progressive Collaborative Inc	$133,000	2	36%
Florida Alliance for Civic Engagement Inc	$125,000	2	8%
Tennessee Investor Fund	$125,000	3	10%
New Hampshire Progress Alliance	$105,000	4	4%
Wyoming Donor Alliance	$100,000	1	30%
Committee on States	$100,000	1	6%
Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc	$100,000	1	7%
Philanthropy Pathways Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Maine Donor Alliance Fund	$95,300	3	20%
Nebraska Civic Engagement Table	$95,000	4	2%
The Alabama Alliance	$85,000	3	53%
Make North Carolina First	$85,000	2	2%
Tides Advocacy	$85,000	2	0%
Alabama Forward	$75,000	1	2%
Texas Future Action Fund	$75,000	1	14%
Commonwealth Alliance Action Fund	$75,000	2	6%
One Voice	$75,000	2	2%
Indiana Democracy Collective Inc	$75,000	2	5%
Alliance for a Better Vermont	$70,000	2	38%
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center	$65,000	1	7%
Instituto Lab	$50,000	2	5%
Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Fair Elections Center	$50,000	1	1%
PA Alliance Foundation	$50,000	2	1%
Ga Alliance Education Fund	$50,000	1	n/a
West Virginia Citizen Action Education Fund	$50,000	1	7%
Together Wisconsin Acts Inc	$50,000	2	1%
New Hampshire Democracy Fund	$50,000	1	3%
Together Wisconsin Inc	$50,000	1	4%
Florida Watch Inc	$47,909	1	5%
Fair Future NC	$46,000	1	34%
Opportunities for All Floridians Inc	$46,000	1	11%
Washington Progress Alliance	$35,000	1	3%
Ohio Progressive Collaborative	$35,000	1	6%
The Ohio Environmental Council	$35,000	1	2%
Better Utah Institute	$35,000	1	14%
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy	$35,000	1	1%
Northwest Health Foundation	$35,000	1	1%
Alliance for a Better Utah Inc	$35,000	1	13%
March on Maryland	$30,000	1	1%
Mississippi Votes	$25,000	1	1%
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Commonwealth Alliance Voter Engagement	$20,000	1	n/a

State Leadership Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 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 71.

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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.

Committee on StatesNC51.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Committee on States · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation · State Engagement Fund · Strategic Victory Fund · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Hopewell Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Way to Win Action Fund 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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About State Leadership Project

How much does State Leadership Project give?: State Leadership Project reported 33 grants totaling $11,283,765 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
What does State Leadership Project fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (66%), Public Benefit (23%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are State Leadership Project's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Strategic Victory Fund ($19M), Goodnation Foundation Inc ($1.5M), Project 68 Education Fund Inc ($1.0M).
Does State Leadership Project fund new organizations?: In FY2022, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as State Leadership Project?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Committee on States, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Foundation.
Where is State Leadership Project based?: State Leadership Project is based in NC.