California · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION
FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,950 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($199,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $597k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $562k
- Net assets
- $417k
What Foundation for Independent Voter Education does
Mission
To conduct independent research, conduct education and hold education meetings and conferences to educate and inform voters and public officials on critical issues and to grant scholarships to help accomplish this purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization is co-publisher of independent voter news, an open news platform for independent-minded authors and readers providing unfiltered political news and policy analysis from across the political spectrum. Since 2008 inv.us has published thousands of articles from journalists and individuals of differing political tendencies reaching more than 500,000 readers every month providing nonpartisan education to voters and encouraging constructive dialogue among writers and readers across the political spectrum. In pursuit of our mission of voter education, we conduct ongoing studies to explore effective ways to broaden the outreach to voters in underserved areas, we conduct polls to determine the best methods to give voters accurate information regarding their voting rights and we promote (con't on sch o) initiatives that expandthe voting population.
$236,500 spentof which $30,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $236,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $75k to $417k (+453%).
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 FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% 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.
Board chair
Steve Peace
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $48k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION’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
FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 71%; 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 FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2022 51% · 2023 42% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION'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 $180k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $382k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Independent Voter Project · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION?
- FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,950 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($199,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $561,950 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $199,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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