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CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY

CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being MARK CUBAN FOUNDATION ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$55k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$500k
Net assets
$268k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 95%
01What it does

What Center for Competitive Democracy does

Mission

The center works to strengthen american democracy by increasing electoral competition by identifying and eliminating barriers to political participation in an effort to secure free, open and competitive elections by fostering active civic engagement.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Litigation programs: the center provides a full range of legal and public education services to protect and defend the rights of voters, candidates, and political parties to participate in the electoral process regardless of partisan affiliation.

    $73,145 spent
    60% of program spending

  2. Compliance programs: the center advises voters, candidates, and political parties on matters concerning local, state, and federal compliance, including ballot access, campaign finance, and other matters relating to first amendment rights.

    $26,820 spent
    22% of program spending

  3. Advocacy programs: the center engages in a variety of public education and outreach efforts to promote participation and increase competition in the democratic process, including media relations, op-ed placements, friend of the court filings, and supporting legislative and campaign finance reforms.

    $21,943 spent
    18% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $121,908.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3k) Expenses 100 ($358k) Net assets 100 ($276k)2018 Revenue 1719 ($43k) Expenses 63 ($225k) Net assets 34 ($95k)2020 Revenue 10478 ($264k) Expenses 35 ($126k) Net assets 52 ($143k)2021 Revenue 17638 ($444k) Expenses 51 ($183k) Net assets 146 ($403k)2022 Revenue 3304 ($83k) Expenses 43 ($153k) Net assets 122 ($336k)2023 Revenue 2180 ($55k) Expenses 34 ($123k) Net assets 97 ($268k)
201720182020202120222023
Revenue (2180)Expenses (34)Net assets (97)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $143k to $403k (+182%).

$276k
$95k
$143k
$403k
$336k
$268k
201720182020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

1% of CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,450 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$355k
’17
−$181k
’18
$138k
’20
$261k
’21
−$69k
’22
−$68k
’23
26
months of
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.

20202021
Listed44
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $250k.

Funder
'20
'21
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.

Where its funders are

CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,028 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−124% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)67% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,028 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

Organizations like CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY

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.

Campaign Legal Center Action84%Equal Citizens Foundation81%Center for Civic Information80%Center for Law and Policy79%Democracy Initiative79%Democracyfirst79%Center Aisle Coalition79%Competitive Enterprise Institute79%

Nationally

Campaign Legal Center Action84%Citizen Advocacy Center82%Center for Election Confidence Inc82%Equal Citizens Foundation81%Voter Protection Corps Education & Advocacy Fund Inc80%Center for Civic Action80%Center for Civic Education80%Center for Civic Information80%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

24%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY?
CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being MARK CUBAN FOUNDATION ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500,000 in grants to CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY?
MARK CUBAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing