Washington · Nonprofit
FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON
FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,350 to it, the largest being OPEN PHILANTHROPY ACTION FUND ($217,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $98k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $730k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Fairvote Washington does
Mission
To promote electoral reform in Washington state
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Public Outreach & Education: Educate the general public, elected officials, and candidates running for elected office about non-partisan election reforms such as ranked-choice voting that give voters greater choice and stronger voice in our elections, and lead to a more civil, more functional, more representative democracy.
$4,975 spent9% of program spendingPartnership Building with Election Administrators and Allied Organizations: Meet with elections administrators and allied organizations across Washington to discuss benefits and to offer support regarding future implementation of ranked-choice voting.
$2,854 spent5% of program spendingWork to Pass Legislation to Introduce Ranked-Choice voting: Promote ranked-choice voting in the state legislature and in cities and counties throughout the state.
$48,117 spent86% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,946.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $315k to $111k (−65%).
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: 2021 0% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Elise Orlick
Executive Director
Board chair
Julie Love
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $80k → $23k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $225k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fairvote Washington Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON raised.
From the IRS filings of FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON’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
FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% 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 FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 56% — 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.
Where its funders are
FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 6 states in all.
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.
Against its field
FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON: 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 WASHINGTON?
- FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,350 to it, the largest being OPEN PHILANTHROPY ACTION FUND ($217,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $730,350 in grants to FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON?
- OPEN PHILANTHROPY ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $217,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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