· Public charity
Unite and Renew Fund Inc
The purpose of the organization shall be to engage in public policy and issue advocacy in support of lasting structural improvements to american democracy and other non-partisan democracy reform measures.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $342k
- $250k+2 grants · $950k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITIZENS NOT POLITICIANS | $500,000 |
| STATES UNITED ACTION INC | $450,000 |
| SECURE DEMOCRACY USA | $180,000 |
| UNITED TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY | $100,000 |
| NEW POLITICS | $62,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $562k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PDPROTECT DEMOCRACY UNITED3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue -72%
- SUSTATES UNITED ACTION3× · 2022–2024 · $950k · revenue +335% · 34% of their budget
- SDSecure Democracy3× · 2022–2024 · $660k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- NVNEVADA VOTERS FIRSTone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -100%
- KCKEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION INCone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -49%
- LOLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE UNITED STATESone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Securing reforms to the electoral count act
Informed and educated the public and lawmakers about the benefits of including independent voters in Pennsylvania's primary elections.
Our mission is to increase voting in elections across the United States by offering nonpartisan information primarily across social media and podcast platforms.
To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact
Bring about and safeguard political equality for the people of New Hampshire. This will only happen through an open, accountable, and trusted democratic government, of, by, and for the people, that is free from the corrupting influence of…
Support "yes" vote on referendum dealing with national popular vote
Ballot issue political action committee to advocate for the defeat of a constitutional amendment that would require a 60% threshold for any future constitutional amendments.
Non-PartisanVoter Educ Advocacy
Secure Democracy USA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to build stronger elections, state by state.
The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.
To strengthen democracy in the United States through an assessment of US voting systems and US election administration from the perspective of global best practices.
Democracyfirst is a 501(c)4 dedicated to restoring public trust in the electoral system, protecting free and fair elections, and renewing the pro-democracy consensus in american politics.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Protect Democracy United and the most unlike its peers is Secure Democracy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY UNITED ↗
- Who funds STATES UNITED ACTION ↗
- Who funds Secure Democracy ↗
- Who funds Citizens Not Politicians ↗
- Who funds Alaskans for Better Elections ↗
- Who funds NEVADA VOTERS FIRST ↗
- Who funds KEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds FairMapsVirginia ↗
- Who funds NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC ↗
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.
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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 Unite and Renew Fund Inc 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.
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.
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