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The Voter Project Fund

We are dedicated to ensuring all voters can cast a ballot in a safe, secure and convenient way.

$541k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
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 FY20222024.

Public Benefit$1.2MHuman Services$88kArts & Culture$78kFood & Nutrition$20kCommunity Improvement$20kReligion$20kCrime & Legal$10kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $223k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $318k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$151k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$200,000
PROMOTE THE VOTE$60,000
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS$57,500
MANTUA CARES ASSOCIATION$40,000
FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC$38,000
UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM$20,000
NEW VOTERS ORG$20,000
DOMINICAN GROCERS ASSOCIATION NONPROFIT$20,000
PROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA$15,000
DEVELOPING OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDING EQUITY$10,000
WE LOVE PHILLY$10,000
FRONTLINE DADS INC$10,000
WHY NOT PROSPER INC$10,000
AFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA$10,000
CHEW & CHELTEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LEGAL CHEW AND CHELTEN C$10,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%NEW VOTERS ORG: $20k → 6%PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS: $58k → 22%UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM: $20k → 17%TRASH 2 TREASURE INC: $10k → 22%WE LOVE PHILLY: $10k → 22%DEVELOPING OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDING EQUITY: $10k → 22%PROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA: $15k → 22%FRONTLINE DADS INC: $10k → 22%WHY NOT PROSPER INC: $10k → 22%MANTUA CARES ASSOCIATION: $40k → 22%AFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 22%DOMINICAN GROCERS ASSOCIATION NONPROFIT: $20k → 22%FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $38k → 22%PA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $200k → 22%CHEW & CHELTEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LEGAL CHEW AND CHELTEN C: $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 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
Lead Pa

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

2
New Pennsylvania Project

The New Pennsylvania Project (NPP) is a voting rights organization with a

Civil Rights
3
Pa Alliance Action

The PA Alliance Action seeks to advocate at the state level for democracy reform through grassroots activities and support of like-minded organizations on behalf of and in support of all Pennsylvanians, in particular historically…

Civil Rights
4
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…

5
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
6
PowerCorpsPHL

To combat community deterioration and promote education.

Employment
7
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
8
Ballot Pa Action

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

Civil Rights
9
Keystone Democracy

Keystone Democracy's goal is to ensure that all Pennsylvania elections are implemented in a safe, secure, convenient and fair manner. We work to advance pro-democracy policies by informing elected officials, civic leaders, the media, and…

10
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
11
Turn Out Philly

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

12
Options Philly

Improve the quality of life for the community and its residents.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promote the Vote Pa and the most unlike its peers is Chew and Chelton Cdc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Voter Project — $875,000 · OtherThe Voter ProjectMANTUA CARES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · Other+6 more — $85,000 · Other+6 morePA Alliance Foundation — $200,000 · Civil RightsPA Alliance Found…NEW VOTERS ORG — $20,000 · Civil RightsNEW VOTERS ORGPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $57,500 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePROMOTE THE VOTE PA — $60,000 · Human ServicesFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS — $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentWE LOVE PHILLY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWhy Not Prosper Inc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementChew and Chelton CDC — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,000,000Civil Rights$220,000Arts & Culture$67,500Human Services$60,000Youth Development$48,000Community Improvement$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Voter Project — $875,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPA Alliance Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPROMOTE THE VOTE PA — $60,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $57,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS — $38,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW VOTERS ORG — $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWE LOVE PHILLY — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The William Penn Foundation · Pa Alliance Action · PA Alliance Foundation · Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Fund 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Voter Project Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Voter Project Fund 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 17 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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