Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,500 to it, the largest being Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fund ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $450k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $241k
- Net assets
- $131k
What Election Research Institute does
Mission
The organization exists to ensure election integrity through research, education, and litigation support. They work to protect voting rights, strengthen election systems, and promote government transparency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conducts research on election administration processes and systems to identify vulnerabilities and implement solutions to improve election integrity
$212,970 spent68% of program spendingOffers eduational programs and training to inform the public about election security
$16,000 spent5% of program spendingSupports litigation efforts to protect voting rights and ensure transparency
$83,307 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,277.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
“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
ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE: 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 RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,500 to it, the largest being Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fund ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $240,500 in grants to ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fund is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 4 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