Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MAJORITY FORWARD
MAJORITY FORWARD (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,515,000 to it, the largest being FORWARD ACTION FUND ($8,800,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- State Engagement Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- Women Donors Network Actionshared funders
- America Works USAportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $3.0M → $1.7M.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.1M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Right to Vote Foundation); $500k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Civic Involvement Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money MAJORITY FORWARD raised.
From the IRS filings of MAJORITY FORWARD’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
MAJORITY FORWARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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 MAJORITY FORWARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 68% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% — 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
MAJORITY FORWARD draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 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.
Funders to approach
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 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- State Engagement Fundshared fundersportfolio matchNC · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersCA · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- America Works USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our Children Our Futureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Democracy Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Priorities USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Committee on Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fuse Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grove Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- The Heising-Simons Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Groundswell Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
- Center for Community Change Actionshared fundersDC · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like MAJORITY FORWARD
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Right to Vote Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAJORITY FORWARD: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAJORITY FORWARD?
- MAJORITY FORWARD (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,515,000 to it, the largest being FORWARD ACTION FUND ($8,800,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAJORITY FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $25,515,000 in grants to MAJORITY FORWARD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAJORITY FORWARD?
- FORWARD ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAJORITY FORWARD 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 15funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing