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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.

$8.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$44MCivil Rights$1.5MEnvironment$212kCommunity Improvement$167kHealth$132kHuman Services$116kCrime & Legal$83kYouth Development$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $6,861,096, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,144,027 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,282,931 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+9 grants · $4.8M
$181,320
Median grant
22
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $341k → 10%MAKE THE ROAD NEVADA: $167k → 20%THE FIRST COAST LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $47k → 14%MOTHERS OF HOPE: $73k → 12%SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN URBAN LEAGUE: $22k → 14%CIA SIAB INC: $30k → 12%STATE POWER FUND: $1.2M → 19%ACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA: $29k → 10%POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE FISCAL SPONSOR PUBLIC ALLIES: $30k → 23%THE FIRST COAST LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CIA SIAB INC: $20k → 12%PUBLIC ALLIES: $419k → 17%STATE POWER FUND: $30k → 19%ACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA: $58k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $94k → 10%CENTRAL FLORIDA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $20k → 13%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%PUBLIC ALLIES: $186k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $11k → 10%PUBLIC ALLIES: $100k → 17%ONE LOVE GLOBAL INC: $8k → 16%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $66k → 17%ONE LOVE GLOBAL INC: $6k → 16%PUBLIC ALLIES: $50k → 17%ACCESS: $87k → 21%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $101k → 9%LAS VEGAS INDIAN CENTER: $60k → 13%ACCESS: $15k → 21%FREEDOM INC: $50k → 10%STUDENT ORGANIZING: $39k → 16%HMONG AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $70k → 17%STUDENT ORGANIZING INC: $35k → 16%ARAB COMMUNITY FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES: $11k → 21%HMONG AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $25k → 17%DETROIT PARENT NETWORK: $10k → 21%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $75k → 17%MILWAUKEE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 73 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
101

Total granted

$37M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+29%

Still filing today

92%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +17%
  • PENNSYLVANIA VOICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue ×17
  • MICHIGAN VOICES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +223% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • CIVIC TNgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $356k · revenue +29% · 28% of their budget
  • WO
    WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $284k · revenue +114%
  • NC
    Nevada Conservation League Ed Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $231k · revenue +110% · 60% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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2
League of Women Voters of Minnesota Educ

The league of women voters minnesota a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to civic engagement, with a mission to empower voters and defend democracy. membership is open to all genders age 16 and up. through our partnership with…

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3
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
4
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
5
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
6
Equality State Policy Center

As a non-partisan coalition-based organization, the equality state policy center advances fair elections and transparent government in support of all wyoming communities.

Public Benefit
7
Legal Voice

Legal voice was founded on the belief that all women, girls, and lgbtq+ people should be able to live their lives with dignity, safety, and autonomy. we advance justice and build community power by using multiple strategies: litigation,…

Crime & Legal
8
League of Women Voters of New Jersey Education Fund

Lwvnj-ef's nonpartisan voter education and voter protection work ensures everyone has the tools, resources, and confidence they need to participate fully at the ballot box and beyond.

Civil Rights
9
Alabama Values

A nonpartisan grassroots communication organization that works to raise awareness and increase engagement around community issues in alabama by working directly with civic organizations advocating civic participation in communities across…

Arts & Culture
10
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
11
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
12
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

161 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
69
Early backer (in before they grew)
156/161
Grantees still filing
117/161
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA VOICE: $2,914,936 · Civil RightsPENNSYLVANIA VOICEMICHIGAN VOICES: $2,719,206 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN VOICESPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $2,698,891 · Civil RightsPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INCWISCONSIN VOICES INC: $1,093,980 · Civil RightsWISCONSIN VOICES INCMISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE: $958,160 · Civil RightsMISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT C…Virginia Civic Engagement Table: $899,098 · Civil RightsNEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE: $760,957 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $709,689 · Civil RightsCOLORADO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE: $687,268 · Civil RightsALABAMA FORWARD: $684,334 · Civil Rights+34 more: $3,347,606 · Civil Rights+34 moreNEO Philanthropy Inc: $3,773,351 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy IncOHIO VOICE: $2,063,782 · Public BenefitOHIO VOICEMinnesota Voice: $1,245,303 · Public BenefitMinnesota VoiceCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $1,193,056 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY+13 more: $1,409,640 · Public Benefit+13 moreTIDES CENTER: $3,176,128 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERSTATE POWER FUND: $1,228,488 · Human ServicesSTATE POWER FUN…PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $850,870 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ALLIES I…+18 more: $1,100,281 · Human Services+18 moreMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $590,233 · OtherMAINE PEOPLE'…LEXINGTON GAY SERVICES ORGANIZATION INC: $372,947 · OtherLEXINGTON GAY…OREGON FOOD BANK: $343,605 · OtherOREGON FOOD B…WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS: $283,967 · OtherREAL WOMEN RADIO FOUNDATION: $212,865 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION: $297,250 · OtherTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $288,332 · Other+61 more: $3,305,929 · Other+61 moreKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $933,826 · Community ImprovementWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT: $581,927 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $564,110 · Community ImprovementWin Win Network: $528,999 · Community ImprovementASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $263,180 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $133,300 · Community ImprovementCOMMON GROUND INC: $128,000 · Community Improvement+7 more: $291,075 · Community ImprovementBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $2,486,128 · EducationWISDOM INSTITUTE: $98,184 · Education+5 more: $135,480 · EducationNevada Conservation League Ed Fund: $230,654 · EnvironmentLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $110,000 · EnvironmentTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $107,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentFAITH ORGANIZING ALLIANCE: $95,676 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $62,833 · EnvironmentWISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC: $43,100 · EnvironmentGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $42,412 · Environment+2 more: $34,699 · Environment
Civil Rights$17,474,125Public Benefit$9,685,132Human Services$6,355,767Other$5,695,128Community Improvement$3,424,417Education$2,719,792Environment$826,374

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $3,773,351 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $3,176,128 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA VOICE: $2,914,936 over 8y, 22% of budgetMICHIGAN VOICES: $2,719,206 over 4y, 45% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $2,698,891 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $2,486,128 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $2,063,782 over 7y, 25% of budgetMinnesota Voice: $1,245,303 over 7y, 48% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND: $1,228,488 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $1,193,056 over 7y, 14% of budgetWISCONSIN VOICES INC: $1,093,980 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetMISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE: $958,160 over 5y, 23% of budgetKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $933,826 over 5y, 38% of budgetVirginia Civic Engagement Table: $899,098 over 8y, 20% of budgetPUBLIC ALLIES INC: $850,870 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE: $760,957 over 5y, 16% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $709,689 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCOLORADO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE: $687,268 over 5y, 29% of budgetALABAMA FORWARD: $684,334 over 3y, 11% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $590,233 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT: $581,927 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $564,110 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE: $538,790 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetWin Win Network: $528,999 over 4y, 30% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA: $503,499 over 4y, 51% of budgetCIVIC TN: $356,297 over 1y, 28% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $343,605 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN: $306,050 over 3y, 35% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $297,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $288,332 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS: $283,967 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $263,180 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc: $255,378 over 4y, 13% of budgetProgress Michigan Education Inc: $248,222 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $237,656 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $235,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNevada Conservation League Ed Fund: $230,654 over 1y, 60% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $225,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMake The Road States Inc: $166,520 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $155,778 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFLORIDA PHILANTHROPIC NETWORK INC: $150,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetREW MINISTRIES: $137,413 over 1y, 50% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $133,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMON GROUND INC: $128,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC: $122,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $117,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWISDOM INC: $115,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $113,301 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

NEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundTides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Windward FundState Power FundHopewell FundVoter Registration Pr…All Hands on Deck Net…Proteus Fund IncMichigan VoicesUnited States Energy …
NEO Philanthropy IncNY108.8× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization State Voices funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from State Voices. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 181 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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