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ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC

ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,129,206 to it, the largest being THORNBURG FOUNDATION ($345,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$664k
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
$1.1M
Grants received
$170k
Net assets
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%

Against its field

ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,796 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)44% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,796 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($109k)2020 Revenue 65 ($71k) Expenses 1649 ($95k) Net assets 66 ($72k)2021 Revenue 119 ($129k) Expenses 1651 ($95k) Net assets 97 ($106k)2022 Revenue 768 ($837k) Expenses 7617 ($440k) Net assets 461 ($504k)2023 Revenue 352 ($384k) Expenses 11702 ($675k) Net assets 193 ($211k)2024 Revenue 609 ($664k) Expenses 12236 ($706k) Net assets 155 ($170k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (609)Expenses (12236)Net assets (155)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,977 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$103k
19
$25k
20
$34k
21
$398k
22
$291k
23
$42k
24
3.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $14k → $313k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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 REFORMERS NETWORK INC’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 REFORMERS NETWORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

53% 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 REFORMERS NETWORK INC.

31%
largest funder
56%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 64% · 2019 48% · 2020 100% · 2021 49% · 2022 57% · 2023 51%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

20% of ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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 REFORMERS NETWORK INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 8 states in all.

NY
PA
CO
MD
DE
NM
DC
GA

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

18
19
20
21
22
23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC

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 Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & 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 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

48%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC: 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 REFORMERS NETWORK INC?
ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC (Maryland) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,129,206 to it, the largest being THORNBURG FOUNDATION ($345,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,129,206 in grants to ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC?
THORNBURG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $345,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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