Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Voter Registration Project
VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT's purpose is to carry out nonpartisan voter registration programs and assist other nonprofit organizations in planning, implementing and evaluating such programs.
- $44M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $465,618
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,423,961
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 49
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Voter Registration Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 58 | $42M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $14M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $28M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $10.0M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $42M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $6.4M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $27M | 39% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Voices | $27,506,923 | 8 | 30% |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $18,352,970 | 7 | 15% |
| Mi Familia En Accion | $11,025,873 | 8 | 89% |
| N C a Philip Randolph Institute Inc | $8,555,961 | 8 | 38% |
| New Georgia Project Inc | $6,575,224 | 6 | 57% |
| Unidosus | $5,761,727 | 6 | 3% |
| Florida Rising Together Inc | $4,695,188 | 7 | 9% |
| One Arizona | $4,252,528 | 8 | 9% |
| Arizona Center for Empowerment | $4,217,765 | 5 | 39% |
| Voter Formation Project | $4,110,000 | 2 | 46% |
Show all 109 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Voter Registration Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 31 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Voter Registration Project Education Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · State Voices · Windward Fund · Hopewell Fund · United States Energy Foundation · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Alliance for Youth Organizing · Civic Nation
How this is measured
About Voter Registration Project
- How much does Voter Registration Project give?
- Voter Registration Project reported 65 grants totaling $43,581,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Voter Registration Project fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (93%), Environment (6%), Civil Rights (0%).
- Who are Voter Registration Project's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: State Voices ($28M), League of Conservation Voters Education Fund ($18M), Mi Familia En Accion ($11M).
- Does Voter Registration Project fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Voter Registration Project?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NEO Philanthropy Inc, Tides Foundation, New Venture Fund.
- Where is Voter Registration Project based?
- Voter Registration Project is based in DC.
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