Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DEMOCRACYFIRST
DEMOCRACYFIRST (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,635,000 to it, the largest being Our American Future Action ($2,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Democracy Fund Voice Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Women Donors Network Actionshared funders
- Guardian of Rights Fundportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $200k.
From the IRS filings of DEMOCRACYFIRST’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
DEMOCRACYFIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 DEMOCRACYFIRST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
72% of DEMOCRACYFIRST's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Democracy Fund Voice Incshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersCA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Guardian of Rights Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Protect Democracy Unitedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Article IVportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Responsive Gov Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bright Future Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unite America Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Redistricting Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brick by Brick Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Public Wise Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groundswell Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
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 DEMOCRACYFIRST
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Democracyfirst PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEMOCRACYFIRST: 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.
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 DEMOCRACYFIRST?
- DEMOCRACYFIRST (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,635,000 to it, the largest being Our American Future Action ($2,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEMOCRACYFIRST have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $5,635,000 in grants to DEMOCRACYFIRST.
- Who is the largest funder of DEMOCRACYFIRST?
- Our American Future Action is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEMOCRACYFIRST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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