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State Voices
STATE VOICES uses data and technology, people-powered nonpartisan campaigns, and leadership building to collectively build a multiracial democracy that allows everyone to thrive and live in their full dignity.
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.
The 25 grants below total $6,861,096 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,144,027 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,282,931 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STATE POWER FUND | $1,198,488 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC | $879,923 |
| PENNSYLVANIA VOICE | $483,823 |
| MICHIGAN VOICES | $474,323 |
| PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC | $390,245 |
| OHIO VOICE | $373,095 |
| TIDES CENTER | $341,100 |
| BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA | $318,823 |
| MISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE | $301,765 |
| NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE | $219,235 |
| KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE | $211,100 |
| ALABAMA FORWARD | $206,100 |
| POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE | $181,320 |
| ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT | $175,000 |
| CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY | $150,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those 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 +78% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k 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
NEO Philanthropy Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +17%
PENNSYLVANIA VOICE8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue ×17
MICHIGAN VOICES4× · 2021–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +223% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
CIVIC TNgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $356k · revenue +29% · 28% of their budget- WOWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $284k · revenue +114%
- NCNevada Conservation League Ed Fundgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $231k · revenue +46% · 60% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Let Your Voice Be Heard. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
161 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. 161 of the 181 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 NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA VOICE ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds OHIO VOICE ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Voice ↗
- Who funds STATE POWER FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Civic Engagement Table ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE ↗
- Who funds MI FAMILIA EN ACCION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA FORWARD ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Win Win Network ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON GAY SERVICES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC TN ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Emgage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Progress Michigan Education Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds Nevada Conservation League Ed Fund ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
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: NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · State Power Fund · Hopewell Fund · Voter Registration Project · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Michigan Voices · United States Energy Foundation
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 State Voices 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Alianza Center Inc — 0% 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.