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Unite America Institute Inc

The unite america institute, inc.

$8.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$989k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$24MCivil Rights$835kEnvironment$450kEducation$359kCrime & Legal$313kSocial Science$268kAnimals$60kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $377k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+12 grants · $6.0M
$100,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPEN PRIMARIES EDUCATION FUND$988,775
ALASKANS FOR BETTER ELECTIONS FOUNDATION$850,000
VETERANS FOR ALL VOTERS$845,750
ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER$512,500
OREGON CENTER FOR VOTING & ELECTIONS$454,000
FAIRVOTE$451,299
R STREET INSTITUTE$390,000
COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR$360,000
REPRESENTUS EDUCATION FUND$315,000
THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC$312,500
THE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND$300,000
ADVANCE COLORADO$250,000
ETERNAL VIGILANCE ACTION INC$225,000
SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE$150,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH$149,500
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 (FY22–22, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $300k → 16%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

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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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 38 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
29

Total granted

$22M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+29%

Still filing today

97%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitEducationSocial ScienceEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AF
    ALASKANS FOR BETTER ELECTIONS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue ×45 · 99% of their budget
  • F
    FAIRVOTE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +75%
  • OP
    Open Primaries Education Fund
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +117% · 52% of their budget

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AFN EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $659k · revenue -66% · 60% of their budget
  • NP
    NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +94%
  • DW
    DEMOCRACY WORKS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -72%
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
The Center for Election Innovation & Research

CEIR seeks to restore trust in the American election system and promote election procedures that encourage participation while ensuring election integrity and security.

Civil Rights
2
Expand Democracy Inc

Expand Democracy studies and offers policy solutions designed to support and advance a democracy of, by, and for the people. We spark consideration of promising pro-democracy ideas and strategies. We focus on the United States, but learn…

Public Benefit
3
Center for National Independence in Politics

Vote smart, a nonpartisan civic educational organization, is focused on providing citizens with abundant, accurate and relevant information on elected officials, political candidates and issues.

—
4
Right Vote Inc
Civil Rights
5
Institute for Research on Presidential Elections

To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States by providing objectively-determined information, data, analyses, and studies aimed at improving

Civil Rights
6
Election Watch Inc

Research analyze publish information to public on elections election systems laws and campaign financing.

Civil Rights
7
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

—
8
Progressive Change Institute

The progressive change institute develops and promotes public policy, fosters bottom-up democracy, and educates the public. this includes working to impact the mainstream political discourse and protect democracy.

Public Benefit
9
RepresentUs

RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…

Public Benefit
10
Secure Democracy Usa

Secure Democracy USA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to build stronger elections, state by state.

Civil Rights
11
Verified Voting Foundation

Strengthen democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in all elections.

—
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Builders Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation. 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

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 86 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
46/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALASKANS FOR BETTER ELECTIONS FOUNDATION: $2,309,750 · Civil RightsALASKANS FOR BETTER ELECTIONS FOUNDATIONFAIRVOTE: $2,298,299 · Civil RightsFAIRVOTEVeterans for All Voters: $1,370,750 · Civil RightsVeterans for All VotersOREGON CENTER FOR VOTING & ELECTIONS: $604,000 · Civil RightsOREGON CENTER FOR VOTING & ELECTIONSUTAH RANKED CHOICE VOTING ACTION: $491,500 · Civil RightsFIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC: $388,650 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $350,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $325,000 · Civil Rights+13 more: $1,580,235 · Civil Rights+13 moreRepresentUs Education Fund: $1,860,166 · Public BenefitRepresentUs Education FundISSUE ONE: $796,833 · Public BenefitISSUE ONEBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $786,000 · Public BenefitBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER I…MILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS: $693,750 · Public BenefitMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT …COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $660,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUN…FairVote Minnesota Foundation: $425,000 · Public BenefitFairVote Minnesota Foundat…ADVANCE COLORADO: $250,000 · Public Benefit+9 more: $590,238 · Public Benefit+9 moreR STREET INSTITUTE: $899,817 · EducationR STREET …RANK THE VOTE INC: $520,000 · EducationRANK THE …President and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000 · EducationPresident…Better Ballot Georgia Inc: $90,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $89,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · Education+12 more: $289,216 · Education+12 moreELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER: $1,337,500 · OtherELECTION ADMINISTR…INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $250,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR CITI…THE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 · OtherTHE ALASKA CENTER …Sightline Institute: $315,000 · OtherSightline Institut…NEW VENTURE FUND: $150,000 · OtherTHE AFN EDUCATION FUND: $659,121 · OtherTHE AFN EDUCATION …NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $300,000 · OtherNEW POLITICS LEADE…+16 more: $874,674 · Other+16 moreOpen Primaries Education Fund: $1,438,775 · Community ImprovementONEVIRGINIA2021 FOUNDATION: $261,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $524,500 · Social ScienceCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $360,000 · Social ScienceKeystone Research Center Inc: $150,000 · Social ScienceJOSEPH RAINEY CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $57,500 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $50,000 · Social ScienceTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $1,087,500 · Crime & Legal
Civil Rights$9,718,184Public Benefit$6,061,987Education$2,163,033Other$4,386,295Community Improvement$1,699,775Social Science$1,142,000Crime & Legal$1,087,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALASKANS FOR BETTER ELECTIONS FOUNDATION: $2,309,750 over 4y, 99% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $2,298,299 over 4y, 19% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $1,860,166 over 6y, 12% of budgetOpen Primaries Education Fund: $1,438,775 over 2y, 52% of budgetVeterans for All Voters: $1,370,750 over 3y, 60% of budgetELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER: $1,337,500 over 4y, 82% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $1,087,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $899,817 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetISSUE ONE: $796,833 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $786,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS: $693,750 over 4y, 12% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $660,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE AFN EDUCATION FUND: $659,121 over 1y, 60% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR VOTING & ELECTIONS: $604,000 over 3y, 71% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $524,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRANK THE VOTE INC: $520,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetUTAH RANKED CHOICE VOTING ACTION: $491,500 over 3y, 41% of budgetFairVote Minnesota Foundation: $425,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetFIX THE SYSTEM - WISCONSIN INC: $388,650 over 7y, 42% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $360,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $350,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $325,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetSightline Institute: $315,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetNEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $300,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEternal Vigilance Action Inc: $275,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetONEVIRGINIA2021 FOUNDATION: $261,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $250,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetADVANCE COLORADO: $250,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute: $200,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Mexico Open Elections: $170,000 over 3y, 77% of budgetREPRESENTWOMEN INC: $160,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA UNITED FOR PROGRESS INC: $133,841 over 1y, 56% of budgetMormon Women For Ethical Government Foun dation: $110,238 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetMaine Citizens for Clean Elections: $110,235 over 4y, 14% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDERS NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University: $89,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC: $75,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetEQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER: $75,000 over 2y, 12% 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.

New Venture FundArticle IVThe William & Flora H…Tides FoundationDemocracy Fund IncRockefeller Brothers …The Arthur M Blank Fa…Amalgamated Charitabl…Silicon Valley Commun…Hopewell FundFairvoteThe David and Lucile …
New Venture FundDC30.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Article IV · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Tides Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Fairvote · The David and Lucile Packard 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 Unite America Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Unite America Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Coalition of Communities of Color: 15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Unite America Institute Inc?

Find your warmest path to Unite America Institute Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 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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