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FairVote Illinois Action

FairVote Illinois Action (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being FAIRVOTE ACTION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$5k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What FairVote Illinois Action does

Mission

FairVote Illinois Action is organized exclusively for civic and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(4). The organization will engage in conducting research and educating the public on ranked choice voting in support of ballot measures and legislation to switch elections to ranked choice voting.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Supported passage of a ballot measure for ranked choice voting in Skokie Illinois (mailers, voter education, etc.)

    $10,112 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,112.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($42k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($496)2023 Revenue 2 ($808) Expenses 0 ($15) Net assets 260 ($1k)2024 Revenue 49 ($21k) Expenses 29 ($12k) Net assets 2038 ($10k)2025 Revenue 12 ($5k) Expenses 24 ($10k) Net assets 1054 ($5k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (12)Expenses (24)Net assets (1054)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1k to $10k (+684%).

$496
$1k
$10k
$5k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$131
’22
$793
’23
$9k
’24
−$5k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
Fairvote Actionunclassified
$20k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FairVote Illinois Action’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.

Where its funders are

FairVote Illinois Action draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

MD

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FairVote Illinois Action

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FairVote Illinois Action: 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 FairVote Illinois Action?
FairVote Illinois Action (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being FAIRVOTE ACTION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FairVote Illinois Action have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to FairVote Illinois Action.
Who is the largest funder of FairVote Illinois Action?
FAIRVOTE ACTION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FairVote Illinois Action find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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