California · Nonprofit
DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED
DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,366 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $126k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Democracy Unlimited does
Mission
Democracy Unlimited uplifts people to build a world where our systems of power prioritize the well-being of humans and the living world. We reclaim authority that has been unjustly seized by governments and corporations - all with the aim of cultivating a genuinely democratic society including actively working in solidarity with mutual aid groups rooted in an anti-oppression framework, advocating for urgent climate solutions, and ending profit driven agendas. We will win by building networks for community-driven change and collective action, preparing the ground for constitutional reform and systemic transformation while promoting non-violent popular uprisings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training & Workshops: Trainings and workshops for the general public about a wide range of democracy related issues including community and solidarity organizing, power building, the ruling class and corporate power, environmental impacts, socio-economic effects, oppression dynamics, legal and legislative impacts, and the history and strategies of social movements. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Educated 2 post-secondary students (fellowship) on the ramifications of corporate personhood and money as speech in political campaigns, and created a more compelling online presence to engage the public in the following trainings and workshops, Toward a People's Constitution: a space to host learning and organizing materials, conversation, and action items on the path Towards a People's Constitution, A Movement Education Program (MEP):free curriculum designed to provide analysis, historical perspective, and exercises for activists and organizers. The program addresses the way corporatism, capitalism, white-supremacy, patriarchy and related oppressive structures impact our organizing, and it offers alternatives to consider as we work for justice. A Radical Gathering - Cultivating the World We All…
$11,669 spent18% of program spendingMove to Amend Education Fund Provides grants to Move to Amend to educate the general public, allied organizations, and affiliated grassroots movements about the history of democracy and corporations in the United States, the impact that the current state of democracy has on social movements to achieve their mission, and on solutions to end corporate constitutional rights and get money out of politics; to support and act in solidarity with organizations working on solutions that would be achievable with an end of corporate constitutional rights and money as speech; and to connect with other organizations dedicated to creating a diverse, independent, powerful and authentic democracy movement. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Granted funds to Move to Amend for the following activities: 1) production and distribution of approximately 45 national educational webinars and public forums, including structured multi-part series, monthly educational programs, standalone public briefings, 77 direct educational and outreach emails and 101 educational videos reels shared as social media. For example, a) National Educational Webinars and Forums which included the four-part series co-sponsored with Veterans for…
$54,085 spentof which $49,694 as grants82% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $65,754.
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 2020 to 2021, from $28k to $140k (+403%).
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.
100% of DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $1k.
7 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED’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
DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 91% · 2021 60% · 2022 36% · 2023 93% — broadly stable.
“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
75% of DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
92% of DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Move to Amend · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED: 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 DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED?
- DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,366 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $95,366 in grants to DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED?
- RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEMOCRACY UNLIMITED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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