California · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS
INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,089 to it, the largest being GARDNER GROUT FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Institute for Fair Elections does
Mission
To research voter registration and voting processes and to education the public as to the filings; to study election laws and processes to determine the best possible laws and processes in furtherance of democracy and to educate the public as to the studies' results.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Research regarding several California county voter rolls, identify problems and share information with the public.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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 INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS’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
INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 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
INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,580 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,580 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS
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.
Public support
35%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS: 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 INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS?
- INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,089 to it, the largest being GARDNER GROUT FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $53,089 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS?
- GARDNER GROUT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 3 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