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The Voter Project

The Voter Project is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring all Pennsylvania voters can cast a ballot in a safe, secure, and convenient way.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$634k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$5.4MCivil Rights$290kEmployment$60kPhilanthropy$60kCommunity Improvement$50k
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$70,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$504k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Black Leadership Pennsylvania$633,595
Black Leadership Pennsylvania$366,405
Black Leadership Pennsylvania$350,000
PA Alliance Action$200,000
PA Alliance Action$200,000
Keystone Democracy$160,000
Keystone Democracy$120,000
PA Alliance Action$100,000
PA Alliance Action$100,000
Promote the Vote$75,148
Organize Pennsylvania$75,000
Keystone Democracy$70,000
Promote the Vote$67,500
Tides Center$60,000
Committee of Seventy$60,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Tides Center: $60k → 10%CAIR-Philadelphia: $10k → 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.

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 4 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+2%

Still filing today

75%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • PA
    PA ALLIANCE ACTION
    2× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +98%
  • PF
    PENNSYLVANIA FORWARD
    3× · 2020–2022 · $220k · revenue +18% · 50% of their budget
  • NP
    New Pennsylvania Project
    2× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • IU
    In Union USA Action
    one grant, 2020 · $750k
  • TL
    THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $202k · revenue -71%
  • CC
    COMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -36%

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

04Your 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
Ballot Pa Action

Informed and educated the public and lawmakers about the benefits of including independent voters in Pennsylvania's primary elections.

Civil Rights
2
Lead Pa

Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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3
Pennsylvania United

PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create

Civil Rights
4
Pa Alliance Foundation

Pa alliance foundation ("paaf") is a 501(c)(3) public charity that is focused on civic engagement and democracy advancement across pennsylvania, working to expand access to the ballot through non-partisan voter education and mobilization.…

Civil Rights
5
We the People Pennsylvania Action

We The People PA is an issue advocacy organization that works to make PA economy work for all; with a system of taxation that is fair and progressive and raises sufficient revenue to provide quality education and public services for all.

—
6
Philadelphia for All

Our mission is to empower and engage communities of color in Philadelphia through voter education, community outreach, and civic engagement initiatives. We are committed to ensuring every voice is heard by providing accessible information…

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7
Planned Parenthood Association of Pa

Provide public education in support of planned parenthood health services, including family planning and abortion care.

—
8
Pennsylvanians for Fair Courts

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, and government programs to protect against judicial gerrymandering and other legislative barriers to fair courts, and to conduct research about and publicize the positions of elected…

—
9
Philly Black Worker Project

) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower Black workers to advance our rights and improve job quality in key employment sectors

Civil Rights
10
Turn Out Philly

The organization's non-partisan mission is to increase voter turnout and participation in local elections.

—
11
Lead Pa Institute

Leadership training and comprehensive professional development programs for community activists, advocates, and prospective leaders of nonprofits and other issue advocacy organizations across the

Employment
12
Pennsylvania First

To invest in the activation, long-term engagement, and mobilization of

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promote the Vote Pa and the most unlike its peers is Cair-Pennsylvania. 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

22 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Black Leadership Pennsylvania — $1,350,000 · OtherBlack Leadership PennsylvaniaKeystone Democracy — $930,000 · OtherKeystone DemocracyIn Union USA Action — $750,000 · OtherIn Union USA ActionPENNSYLVANIA FORWARD — $220,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA FORWARDCOMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS — $200,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONSPENNSYLVANIA PROGRESS — $145,000 · Other+2 more — $60,000 · OtherPA ALLIANCE ACTION — $1,200,000 · Civil RightsPA ALLIANCE ACTIONCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION — $123,093 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATIONNew Pennsylvania Project — $105,000 · Civil RightsNew Pennsylvania ProjectORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA — $75,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY — $60,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $125,000 · Civil Rights+3 morePROMOTE THE VOTE PA — $167,898 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $60,000 · Human ServicesCAIR-PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $202,000 · Public BenefitRAISEDBY US INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyPOWER INTERFAITH INC — $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,655,000Civil Rights$1,688,093Human Services$237,898Public Benefit$202,000Philanthropy$60,000Community Improvement$50,000

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 budgetBlack Leadership Pennsylvania — $1,350,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetPA ALLIANCE ACTION — $1,200,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetKeystone Democracy — $930,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FORWARD — $220,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $202,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH COMMUNICATIONS — $200,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPROMOTE THE VOTE PA — $167,898 over 1y, 18% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PROGRESS — $145,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION — $123,093 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNew Pennsylvania Project — $105,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY — $60,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAISEDBY US INC — $60,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetPRIORITIES USA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCAIR-PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundTides FoundationPA Alliance FoundationAmerica VotesAll Hands on Deck Net…Pa Alliance ActionPro-Democracy CampaignState Engagement FundWorking Families Orga…Our American Future A…Open Society Action F…Tides Advocacy
Sixteen Thirty FundDC21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation · PA Alliance Foundation · America Votes · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Pa Alliance Action · Pro-Democracy Campaign · State Engagement Fund · Working Families Organization Inc · Our American Future Action · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy

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 Project 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
’20’21’22’23’24
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 →median 8%
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Voter Project?

Find your warmest path to The Voter Project through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 22 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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