Maryland · Nonprofit
DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND
DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being DEMOCRACYFIRST ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $926k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $115k
What Defend the Vote Action Fund does
Mission
To sustain and support the prioritization of comprehensive voting rights and democracy reform legislation at all levels of government.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Defend the Vote Action Fund collaborated with local and national partners to protect voting access and support election workers and officials through legislative advocacy and grants.
$813,494 spentof which $437,500 as grants$926,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $813,494.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $3k to $115k (+3204%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Brian Lemek
Member/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND’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
DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND: 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 DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND?
- DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being DEMOCRACYFIRST ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND?
- DEMOCRACYFIRST is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEFEND THE VOTE ACTION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2024–2025), 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