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United for Democracy
UNITED FOR DEMOCRACY seeks to educate and engage the public in making our nation's democracy and its institutions more reflective and responsive to its citizens.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTISTS UNITED FOR CHANGE | $650,000 |
| STAND UP AMERICA INC | $500,000 |
| OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA PAC | $150,000 |
| EMPOWERING ARIZONA | $60,000 |
| INDEPENDENT STRATEGIC RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| TAKE BACK THE COURT ACTION FUND | $50,000 |
| ACTION TOGETHER NEPA INC | $30,000 |
| CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC | $15,000 |
| ALL IN ACTION FUND | $15,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| NAACP ARIZONA | $10,000 |
| THE RABEN GROUP LLC | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.
Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…
PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create
Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.
Electoral Collective Action coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.
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.
All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!
To ensure that working class people are educated on their voting rights. The coalition engages in mobilization and educational information sessions to ensure that all workers voices are heard.
We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stand Up America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Progressive Leadership Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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 STAND UP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION TOGETHER NEPA ↗
- Who funds WORKER POWER ↗
- Who funds LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Take Back The Court Action Fund ↗
- Who funds COMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds All In Action Fund ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds New Pennsylvania Project ↗
- Who funds Progressive Leadership Initiative ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Pro-Democracy Campaign · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · North Fund · Our American Future Action · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation
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 United for Democracy 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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