Arizona · Nonprofit
SAVE DEMOCRACY INC
SAVE DEMOCRACY INC (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $600k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Save Democracy Inc does
Mission
This coalition of arizona citizens intends to educate voters of the challenges facing the state of arizona brought about by our partisan primary system and explore alternative nonpartisan voting systems that would make elections work better for all citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Save Democracy Inc. Conducts research and educates the public on election systems, including a variety of existing systems, such as state-funded partisan primary elections, and alternative systems, such as a single non-partisan open primary in which all voters and all candidates are treated equally. Research and education covers the effects these systems can have on various processes of government, including participation rate and inclusivity among voters, and the propensity and ability of elected officials to solve problems collaboratively on behalf of all those they represent as opposed to only a portion of those they represent. We engage interested citizens in educational efforts that expose the deficiencies of our current election system and explore alternative election structures that reward, rather than punish, cooperation and collaborative problem-solving among elected officials. We educate and enlighten a diverse non-partisan community to understand the connection between voting systems and the prospects for making government more efficient, fairer, and more responsive to the needs of all citizens, regardless of party affiliation.
$305,757 spentof which $185,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $305,757.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $279k to $76k (−73%).
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 SAVE DEMOCRACY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100k → $300k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 SAVE DEMOCRACY 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
SAVE DEMOCRACY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 SAVE DEMOCRACY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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
58% of SAVE DEMOCRACY 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 $250k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $350k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SAVE DEMOCRACY INC's revenue fell 97% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 695 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SAVE DEMOCRACY 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAVE DEMOCRACY 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 SAVE DEMOCRACY INC?
- SAVE DEMOCRACY INC (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAVE DEMOCRACY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $600,000 in grants to SAVE DEMOCRACY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVE DEMOCRACY INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVE DEMOCRACY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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