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COUNT MI VOTE

COUNT MI VOTE (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,290,411 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($6,420,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$8.3M
Net assets
$893k
7/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Count Mi Vote does

Mission

Voters not politicians is a nonpartisan advocacy organization that achieves structural and systemic democracy reforms by engaging people across michigan in effective citizen action.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Empowered citizens to advocate for pro-voter policies and hold politicians accountable. Mobilized citizens to strengthen and protect democracy from threats to voting rights and voting access.

    $679,625 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $679,625.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($16M) Expenses 100 ($16M) Net assets 100 ($118k)2019 Revenue 7 ($1.1M) Expenses 6 ($1.0M) Net assets 177 ($209k)2020 Revenue 7 ($1.0M) Expenses 7 ($1.0M) Net assets 196 ($231k)2021 Revenue 5 ($818k) Expenses 4 ($657k) Net assets 333 ($392k)2022 Revenue 12 ($2.0M) Expenses 10 ($1.6M) Net assets 662 ($780k)2023 Revenue 4 ($590k) Expenses 5 ($832k) Net assets 455 ($536k)2024 Revenue 7 ($1.2M) Expenses 5 ($801k) Net assets 758 ($893k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (7)Expenses (5)Net assets (758)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 2021 to 2022, from $400k to $788k (+97%).

$133k
$212k
$235k
$400k
$788k
$543k
$899k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of COUNT MI VOTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$82k
’18
$91k
’19
−$5k
’20
$161k
’21
$388k
’22
−$242k
’23
$357k
’24
12
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.

Chief executive

Jamie Lyons-Eddy

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed8688999
Joined·+4+2+0+3+2+3
No longer listed·600223
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $6.2M → $240k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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: $144k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Count Mi Vote Education Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money COUNT MI VOTE raised.

From the IRS filings of COUNT MI VOTE’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.

How concentrated its funding is

COUNT MI VOTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 COUNT MI VOTE.

77%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 85% · 2020 87% · 2021 80% · 2022 47% · 2023 42% — 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

0% of COUNT MI VOTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

86% of COUNT MI VOTE'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 4 states.

MI
MA
VA
DC

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

’18
’19
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COUNT MI VOTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−35% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like COUNT MI VOTE

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Voters Not Politicians Ballot Question Committee · exempt
  • Voters Action Committee · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNT MI VOTE: 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 COUNT MI VOTE?
COUNT MI VOTE (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,290,411 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($6,420,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COUNT MI VOTE have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $8,290,411 in grants to COUNT MI VOTE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COUNT MI VOTE?
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COUNT MI VOTE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 14 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