North Carolina · Nonprofit
ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER
ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,472,068 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,950,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $741k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Election Administration Resource Center does
Mission
Our mission is to make ranked choice voting (rcv) elections successful.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Earc dba ranked choice voting resource center (rcvrc) is the nation's only organization dedicated solely to promoting and supporting the administration of ranked choice voting (rcv). Because election offices are often understaffed and underfunded, we provide our educational services and tools for free or at a nominal fee based on state and local policies. (continued on schedule o)rcv was used in 17 cities and counties across nine states to elect local officials in 2025. Rcvrc staff supported election staff in many of these jurisdictions, providing expert advice on implementing ordinances and regulations, presentations, consultations, training staff on rcv and rctab, and advising on rcv implementation best practices. We partnered with redondo beach, ca, and charlottesville, va, to support their rcv implementation for the march 2025 and june 2025 elections, respectively. We advised each city's staff on many aspects of their rcv implementation, including logic and accuracy testing, audit and recount processes, results displays, voter education, and rctab.* states impacted (24): alaska, arizona, california, colorado, connecticut, georgia, hawaii, idaho, illinois, maine, maryland,…
$411,445 spent53% of program spendingEarc provides one of the most important resources available in the election world, rctab. Rctab is a federally tested open-source tabulation software that uses ballot data from voting systems to run the round-by-round count. Over the years, multiple professional developers have volunteered their services to help us create user-friendly, secure software that breaks down barriers to rcv implementation.(continued on schedule o)* rctab has been approved or certified for use as standalone software in four states: maine, new york, utah, & virginia.* rctab has also been approved or certified for use as part of a whole voting system in california (hart verity 2.4) and oregon (clear ballot clearvote 2.5). Clear ballot's clearvote 2.5 was certified by the u.s. Election assistance commission (eac) to the voluntary voting system guidelines in november 2025.* in 2025, rctab was used in five separate jurisdictions and tabulated over 5.1 million total votes. Rctab was used for the first time across three jurisdictions: st. Paul, mn; charlottesville, va; and redondo beach, ca, marking its first use in minnesota and california.* version 2.0 was released in the summer of 2025, following more than…
$366,000 spent47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $777,445.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $2.0M (+62%).
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: 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Rosemary F Blizzard
Executive director
Board chair
Charles Winfree
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $350k → $1.2M.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER’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
ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 86% · 2020 53% · 2021 56% · 2022 51% · 2023 40% — 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
75% of ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $560k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER: 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 ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER?
- ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,472,068 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,950,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $4,472,068 in grants to ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELECTION ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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