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· Public charity

The Voter Participation Center

To increase civic engagement among under-represented communities including unmarried women, people of color, and young people.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Public Benefit$18MEducation$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$325k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COUNTERACT FOUNDATION$5,000,000
DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION$5,000,000
CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION$2,500,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT HOME: $20k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
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DC
GA
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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Democracy Works Inc

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

Civil Rights
2
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc

Our goal is to increase power in our communities through effective voting. We increase voter registration and help develop voting infrastructure and to pursue policies that expands access to the ballot.

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3
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
4
Electoral Collective

Electoral Collective coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights
5
Fair Democracy

Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…

Civil Rights
6
Democracy Matters

Democracy matters was formed to connect and build a community of pro-democracy donors.

Civil Rights
7
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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8
One for Democracy Action Fund

One for democracy unlocks resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time.

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9
Fair Count Inc

Fair count builds long-term power within historically undercounted communities. with the census as our north star, we use every iteration of civic participation as a catalyst to build a more equitable democracy.

Community Improvement
10
Guarantee Our Votes Project

Protect voting rights in the united states for all citizens and expand voting rights to citizens who have been historically disenfranchised or under-represented in the electoral process.

Civil Rights
11
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
12
Democracy Forward

See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State Voices and the most unlike its peers is The Migrant Kitchen Incorporated. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 15 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%29%5–10yr18%29%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr15%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%24%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%39%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr16%4%35–55yr15%0%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/26
the rest of the field
12%
1,599/12,975

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COUNTERACT FOUNDATION — $5,000,000 · Civil RightsCOUNTERACT FOUNDATIONDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION — $5,000,000 · Civil RightsDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION — $4,278,480 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION+7 more — $619,000 · Civil RightsWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $1,800,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA ED…FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC — $1,500,000 · EducationFAIR FIGHT ACTION …BARBARA JORDAN INSTITUTE — $250,000 · EducationBARBARA JORDAN INS…+1 more — $20,000 · EducationTIDES FOUNDATION — $650,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOU…HOPEWELL FUND — $625,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL …MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $400,000 · PhilanthropyMOMSRISIN…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $150,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamat…+1 more — $44,000 · PhilanthropyISSUE ONE — $500,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 · Public BenefitTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $325,000 · EnvironmentORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherAmerica Votes — $20,000 · OtherPROJECT HOME — $20,000 · OtherThe Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc — $30,000 · Recreation & Sports
Civil Rights$14,897,480Education$3,570,000Philanthropy$1,869,000Public Benefit$520,000Environment$325,000Other$160,000Recreation & Sports$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOUNTERACT FOUNDATION — $5,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION — $5,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION — $4,278,480 over 2y, 56% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $1,800,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC — $1,500,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $650,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $625,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetISSUE ONE — $500,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $400,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $325,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBARBARA JORDAN INSTITUTE — $250,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetTHE COLLECTIVE EDUCATION FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetVOTEORG — $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON — $100,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetVOTEAMERICA — $54,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MIGRANT KITCHEN INCORPORATED — $44,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSTATE VOICES — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica Votes — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Tides FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundSilicon Valley Commun…Merle Chambers FundHopewell FundWellspring Philanthro…Amalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincJewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…
Tides FoundationCA21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Merle Chambers Fund · Hopewell Fund · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 The Voter Participation Center 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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