Michigan · Nonprofit
PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC
PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC (Michigan) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,659,225 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,319,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Promote the Vote Fund Inc does
Mission
Promote the vote fund will conduct research and educate the public on issues related to expanding the electorate, voting rights, redistricting reform, election protection in michigan, and advocating on behalf of those issues to the extent that no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, except as is otherwise provided by section 501(h) of the internal revenue code.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We work to increase the power of people by ensuring michigan has a voting system that works for all of us. Our democracy works best when voters have access and all voices are heard.
$3,452,079 spentof which $619,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,452,079.
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 2021 to 2022, from $201k to $1.4M (+619%).
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 PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $450k → $950k.
12 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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: $275k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Promote the Vote Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC’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
PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
71% 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 PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 2023 53% — growing more concentrated.
“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
54% of PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC'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 $3.5M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Promote the Vote Inc · exempt
- Promote the Vote Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC: 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 PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC?
- PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC (Michigan) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,659,225 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,319,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $7,659,225 in grants to PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,319,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 26 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