Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION
RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being CENTER FORWARD ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $433k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $210k
What Renew Democracy Foundation does
Mission
The future of our democracy and the economy it shapes depends on enacting bold policies that reflect the input and perspective of the diversity of our communities. Unfortunately, too many qualified, potential leaders are blocked by systemic barriers from ever having the chance to work in the halls of Congress. The ReNew Democracy Foundation seeks to open doors for new underrepresented voices from across the country who want to learn about democracy, Congress, pragmatic policy-making and ensuring their communities interests are heard.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During the Foundation's second year, we placed our inaugural cohort of fellows in five different center-left congressional offices for their nine month fellowship starting in September 2024, providing them with a detailed orientation and weekly wraparound professional development during their first two months. The Foundation also supported host offices and fellows with monthly check-ins to ensure fellows were provided with adequate duties and support to fulfill their working education and offices were provided with support to provide an enriching environment for the fellows. Throughout the course of the year, the Foundation continued providing skill-building, professional development, social opportunities, and mentorship to the fellows, including educational programming on issues of interest to them and their offices, and frequent networking opportunities to better understand and explore the center-left policymaking space. Foundation staff supported the development of each fellow's capstone project, which contributed to pragmatic policymaking, advanced the interest of the host office, and created a work product for fellows to use for continued career development. At the end of the…
$297,187 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $297,187.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $196k to $210k (+7%).
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 RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
John Michael Gonzalez
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 RENEW DEMOCRACY 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
RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION.
“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
55% of RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RENEW DEMOCRACY 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION?
- RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being CENTER FORWARD ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $120,000 in grants to RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of RENEW DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION?
- CENTER FORWARD is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RENEW DEMOCRACY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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