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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,016,429 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,008,772). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10M
Funders on record
124
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$8.4M
54/124 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What League of Women Voters Education Fund does

Mission

The League of Women Voters Education Fund works to register voters and provide voters with election information through voter guides as well as candidate forums and debates.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Mission impact: the mission impact function includes activities that are devoted to informing the public about voter registration and the importance of voting and providing candidate information.schedule o provides additional detailed description of the league's mission impact achievements.

    $4,666,674 spentof which $829,725 as grants
    56% of program spending
  2. Communications: expenditures are used to maintain the league's website, prepare and disseminate materials and publications, which promote civic awareness and responsibility, and which address selected issues.schedule o provides additional detailed description of the league's communications program achievements.

    $2,004,333 spent$175,788 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  3. Advocacy: expenditures are used to promote civic responsibility through informed participation of citizens in government and action on selected issues.schedule o provides additional detailed description of the league's advocacy program achievements.

    $734,344 spent
    9% of program spending
  4. External affairs: the external affairs function includes facilitating partnerships and thought leadership opportunities to expand the reach of league of women voters and increase its recognition.

    $492,815 spent
    6% of program spending
  5. Council and convention: the council and convention function includes activities related to meetings and other events, such as the biannual council meeting.

    $226,852 spent$139,175 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  6. Outcome and evaluation: the outcome and evaluation function is collecting and analyzing data to measure our impact.

    $148,048 spent
    2% of program spending
  7. Member services: expenditures are used to assist state and local leagues with member recruitment and various programs.

    $117,862 spent
    1% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,390,928.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.6M) Net assets 100 ($6.4M)2018 Revenue 71 ($3.2M) Expenses 109 ($2.8M) Net assets 109 ($7.0M)2019 Revenue 83 ($3.8M) Expenses 134 ($3.5M) Net assets 117 ($7.5M)2020 Revenue 132 ($6.0M) Expenses 162 ($4.2M) Net assets 145 ($9.3M)2021 Revenue 137 ($6.2M) Expenses 236 ($6.1M) Net assets 164 ($10M)2022 Revenue 175 ($7.9M) Expenses 264 ($6.9M) Net assets 160 ($10M)2023 Revenue 153 ($6.9M) Expenses 286 ($7.4M) Net assets 159 ($10M)2024 Revenue 177 ($8.0M) Expenses 378 ($9.8M) Net assets 144 ($9.2M)2025 Revenue 223 ($10M) Expenses 439 ($11M) Net assets 131 ($8.4M)
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Revenue (223)Expenses (439)Net assets (131)

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 $13M to $10M (−24%).

$7.3M
$7.9M
$8.4M
$10M
$13M
$13M
$12M
$13M
$10M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.9M
’17
$413k
’18
$292k
’19
$1.8M
’20
$90k
’21
$1.1M
’22
−$472k
’23
−$1.8M
’24
−$1.3M
’25
3.8
months of
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

Dianna Wynn

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed141622222323252725
Joined·+4+13+1+12+2+10+6+11
No longer listed·2711128413
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $142k → $2.0M.

26 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $371k from 19 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seattle Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND raised.

From the IRS filings of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 funders by total. 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

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

49% 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND.

14%
largest funder
37%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 40% · 2019 29% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% — 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

42% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 30 states in all.

VT
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND

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, D.C.

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 12%Fundraising 14%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 51 states

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • League of Women Voters of the United States · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND?
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,016,429 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,008,772). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND have?
IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $14,016,429 in grants to LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,008,772 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 124 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