Montana · Nonprofit
SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC
SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,878,000 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($4,833,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $108k
What Secure Election Project Inc does
Mission
To preserve and protect the sanctity of our vote by promoting commonsense, nonpartisan election security reforms that prevent hacking and fraud without restricting eligible citizens from accessing the polls.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The secure elections project is an organization committed to protecting our right to have our vote count so american citizens can protect our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. We work with anyone, regardless of party or political belief, who is committed to the idea that elections should not be manipulated by any politician or government and that the will of the people is the only will reflected in our election results. We do this by supporting commonsense election security reforms that restore confidence in our vote and ensure that every eligible citizen is treated fairly and given the same access to the polls as any other citizen.the secure elections project is also committed to exposing fake or fraudulent security ideas being passed off by politicians who are trying to manipulate our elections. Politicians are elected by us, to serve us and can only be held accountable by us if our elections are free from manipulation, hacking and fraud.
$1,631,487 spentof which $366 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,631,487.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $23k (−99%).
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 SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Chris Ross Cavazos
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $750k → $2.9M.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 SECURE ELECTION PROJECT 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
SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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
99% of SECURE ELECTION PROJECT 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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.8M 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
SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SECURE ELECTION PROJECT 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SECURE ELECTION PROJECT 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 SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC?
- SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,878,000 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($4,833,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,878,000 in grants to SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,833,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECURE ELECTION PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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