Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION
PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,898,728 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,502,050). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $67M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Priorities USA Foundation does
Mission
Priorities USA Foundation works to protect and expand access to the ballot for every eligible voter in america. Our work funds litigation that challenges unnecessary and onerous voting laws while our digital communications efforts educate americans about the barriers they might face when casting their ballots.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization ceased the informing democracy program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Digital media:the Priorities USA Foundation used digital communications to educate and mobilize american voters to cast their ballots.
$15,256,545 spentof which $13,245,880 as grants$20,000 earned by the program83% of program spendingVoter access litigation:Priorities USA Foundation funded and supported litigation to protect full and fair access to the ballot and ensure that no voter is deprived of their right to vote as guaranteed by the u.s. Constitution and the voting rights act. When state legislatures passed laws that made it harder for eligible citizens to vote, the foundation pursued litigation to ensure that they were overturned or weakened in court, successfully protecting citizens' access to the ballot in several states.
$3,144,425 spentof which $3,103,659 as grants17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,400,970.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.9M to $8.8M (+375%).
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.
99% of PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $5.0M → $10M.
11 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION’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
PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 94% · 2020 77% · 2021 77% · 2022 86% · 2023 93% — 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
13% of PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% 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
97% of PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION'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 $2.2M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 152 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION: 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 PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION?
- PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,898,728 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($52,502,050). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $66,898,728 in grants to PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $52,502,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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