Massachusetts · Nonprofit
RepresentUs Education Fund
RepresentUs Education Fund (Massachusetts) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,200,456 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,849,194). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 108
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $-2514564
What RepresentUs Education Fund does
Mission
Represent.Us Education Fund (RUEF) is a national, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) Organization working for a US government that is truly accountable to the people, not just the powerful. RUEF educates and unites people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, and build a political system that truly serves the public.Currently, political leaders are enriching themselves, dismantling checks and balances, and silencing those who stand in their way. The institutions meant to protect our democracy are under attack and the stakes couldn't be higher. RUEF is working to expose this corruption and build a government that works for the people, by educating millions on the threat of corruption and attacks on democracy and engaging them on solutions. Together, we can make real and meaningful change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education and Communications: Represent.Us Education Fund elevates the national dialogue on democratic reform by taking complex ideas and presenting them in a way that resonates with diverse audiences. The Organization works through various mediums to communicate with democracy reform groups, academics, activists, and influencers from across the political spectrum. The Organization is driven by the goal to create a collaborative network for the movement by bringing together passionate activists and advocates and creating opportunities to learn, share ideas, get inspired, and forge lasting relationships.
$3,009,432 spentof which $50,000 as grants61% of program spendingGrantmaking: RepresentUs Education Fund made grants to Represent.Us to support public education, research, and cross-partisan outreach activities. Grant funds were used to develop multi-channel public-education campaigns to inform voters about the challenges faced by our democracy and on viable policy solutions. Funds were also used to promote educational content about popular, smart political reforms; to produce compelling videos; and to provide of-the-moment communications on news items impacting our democracy. Grantmaking also underwrote the recruitment and training of volunteers.
$511,110 spentof which $511,110 as grants10% of program spendingResearch and Planning: Represent.Us Education Fund conducts in-depth research related to campaign-finance and electoral-systems reform. Ongoing research aims to measure, track, and evaluate the impact of public policy on state and local communities.
$11,362 spent0% of program spendingOther projects: The Organization conducts various projects to promote equality, ethics and transparency in elections and governments.
$1,382,912 spent$639,634 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,914,816.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.6M to $3.3M (−49%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of RepresentUs Education Fund’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Joshua Graham Lynn
CEO
Board chair
YuChiang Cheng
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $700k → $4.6M.
29 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 RepresentUs Education Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 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
RepresentUs Education Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
60% 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 RepresentUs Education Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 27% · 2019 51% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 26% · 2023 30% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of RepresentUs Education Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
52% of RepresentUs Education Fund'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 $15M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 24 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
RepresentUs Education Fund's revenue grew 66% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like RepresentUs 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- RepresentUs · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RepresentUs Education Fund: 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 RepresentUs Education Fund?
- RepresentUs Education Fund (Massachusetts) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,200,456 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,849,194). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RepresentUs Education Fund have?
- IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $30,200,456 in grants to RepresentUs Education Fund, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RepresentUs Education Fund?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,849,194 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RepresentUs Education Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 108 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