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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.

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

Against its field

CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,026 civil rights nonprofits its size.

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

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,026 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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

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 · 1,441 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
02Who 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & 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.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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.

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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing