New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC (New York) receives grants from 278 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,229,866 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($69,699,199). 136 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 278
- Grants received
- $236M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Center for Popular Democracy Inc does
Mission
The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. We upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all thrive, no exceptions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Campaignscpd's campaigns program runs campaigns in concert with our affiliate network organizations to ensure our communities have access to good schools, affordable housing, quality healthcare, equal opportunity for immigrants, criminal justice reform, greater corporate accountability, a resilient and fair economy, and a robust and responsive democracy. In 2023, cpd worked with 48 affiliates and other partners to win over 40 policy victories for millions of people at the federal level, and across more than a dozen states.
$14,728,461 spentof which $5,482,233 as grants$795,151 earned by the program57% of program spendingBase-buildingcpd's base-building program provides direct field capacity to our network of organizations and helps them build their membership and leadership. Cpd's organizers and trainers work alongside affiliate leaders to achieve our collective goals of growing our shared base, developing the leadership of impacted people, and increasing the movement's resilience and impact over time. In 2023, cpd trained hundreds of affiliate organizers, leaders, and staff across 25 affiliate organizations on best practices in community organizing, hosted field organizer trainings for 411 new organizers, held new leader orientations, and ran a member academy for 958 affiliate members. We also developed the donas (immigration) academy and climate defenders academy for 700 member leaders across 17 affiliates, held 16 in-person regional multi-affiliate trainings and organizing blitzes, and launched a canvass cohort and trained 65 canvass managers and field directors to support year-round membership and issue canvass programs.
$4,751,333 spentof which $2,391,692 as grants$256,528 earned by the program19% of program spendingExecutive office programsexecutive office programs in 2023 included the network management program, the forge organizing journal, and special cultural initiatives. It also included hosting cpd's third people's convention, which brought over 1,200 affiliate members, affiliate staff, and cpd staff together from across the country in a large-scale convention to learn and plan together. In 2023, cpd's network management team provided support and capacity-building to cpd's network of 48 affiliates, including providing coaching and technical assistance in the areas of data management, organizing flow, and member leadership to the network, publishing and maintaining an ongoing calendar of engagement and action opportunities for affiliates in the network, and organizing and convening network meetings with senior staff from affiliates to strategize and plan around key priorities. The forge is an online journal and community for organizers. The forge strengthens the field of organizing by creating space for organizers across traditions to reflect, learn, and strategize, and by generating conversation and collaboration among organizers through publishing learnings and responses. It produces…
$3,852,561 spentof which $40,000 as grants15% of program spendingData
$1,466,857 spent6% of program spendingCivic engagement
$839,792 spentof which $76,500 as grants3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,639,004.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $25M to $40M (+55%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2023 2% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Aaron Dorfman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 64 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $17M → $28M.
54 of 278 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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: $1.7M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc); $220k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Center for Popular Democracy Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 278 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
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 42% · 2019 49% · 2020 28% · 2021 34% · 2022 19% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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
27% of CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
58% of CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 270 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 270 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 21 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Construyamos Otro Acuerdo · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC?
- CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC (New York) receives grants from 278 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,229,866 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($69,699,199). 136 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC have?
- IRS filings report 278 organizations giving $236,229,866 in grants to CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC, 136 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $69,699,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 278 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