Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
America Votes
America Votes (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $612,959,010 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($213,894,147). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $176M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $613M
- Net assets
- $18M
What America Votes does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
America Votes worked to advance progressive policies, expand access to the ballot, coordinate issue advocacy and protect every American's right to vote.
$149,553,157 spentof which $130,263,500 as grants77% of program spendingAmerica Votes worked to Coordinate election campaigns
$45,501,778 spentof which $38,345,000 as grants23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $195,054,935.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $45M to $22M (−51%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of America Votes’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (9% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Daria Dawson
Executive Director
Board chair
Greg Speed
Dir/Pres/Acting Chair/Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $69M.
8 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $39M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest America Votes Education Fund); $8.2M from 3 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Bayfield Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money America Votes raised.
From the IRS filings of America Votes’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
America Votes leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund America Votes.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 83% · 2019 56% · 2020 66% · 2021 49% · 2022 32% · 2023 60% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
35% of America Votes's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of America Votes's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $294M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $319M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
America Votes has grown faster than three-quarters of the 24 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 24 community improvement nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like America Votes
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- America Votes Action Fund · exempt
- America Votes Education Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for America Votes: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds America Votes?
- America Votes (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $612,959,010 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($213,894,147). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does America Votes have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $612,959,010 in grants to America Votes, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of America Votes?
- SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $213,894,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like America Votes find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 112 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing