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Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND (Washington, D.C.) is funded by 34 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $6,846,900 in grants to it, the largest being BRIGHT FUTURE FUND ($2,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 140 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 140 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
$291k from 2 funders in 2025, up from $6.6M and 32 in 2024.
20 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation.
FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2024 38% · 2025 96% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C. — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 34 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
88% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 27 states
Every figure is 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 34funders 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. view filing