Washington · Nonprofit
FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $574,785 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($110,700). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $468k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $575k
- Net assets
- $156k
What Fairvote Washington Foundation does
Mission
FairVote Washington Foundation is organized as a non-profit corporation exclusively for conducting research and educating the public on issues related to ranked choice voting, voting methods, and electoral reform and advocating on behalf of those issues to the extent that no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, except as is otherwise provided by section 501(h) of the Internal Revenue Code
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public Outreach & Education: Conduct outreach and public education events about non-partisan election reforms such as ranked-choice voting that give voters greater choice and a stronger voice in our elections, and lead to a more civil, more functional, more representative democracy.
$144,655 spent40% of program spendingPartnership Building with Election Administrators and Allied Organizations: Meet with elections administrators and allied organizations across the state to discuss benefits and to offer support regarding future implementation of ranked choice voting
$113,854 spentof which $250 as grants31% of program spendingResearch: conduct research on voter understanding of elections and possible election reforms in Washington state
$106,846 spent29% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $365,355.
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 $125k to $392k (+214%).
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.
100% of FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $54k → $174k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION’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 FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
89% 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 FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 56% · 2022 29% · 2023 47% — 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
79% of FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $123k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $452k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
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.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fairvote Washington · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: 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 FOUNDATION?
- FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $574,785 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($110,700). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $574,785 in grants to FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing