Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
VOTER FORMATION PROJECT
VOTER FORMATION PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,132,400 to it, the largest being VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ($4,110,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $-182305
What Voter Formation Project does
Mission
Voter Formation Project's mission is to increase participation in local, state, and national elections through digital communication, experimentation, and knowledge-sharing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, vfp focused our program and research on increasing voter turnout in seven states: arizona, georgia, michigan, nevada, north carolina, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. Vfp ran statewide mobilization ("get out the vote", or gotv) program targeting registered low-propensity voters of color, encouraging them to check their voter registration status and turn out to vote early or on election day.
$3,988,366 spent91% of program spendingVfp conducted a research program in pennsylvania to determine the efficacy of online civic engagement interventions, and developed tools to help people make a voting plan and find their voting location.
$396,524 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,384,890.
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 2023 to 2024, from $585k to $1.1M (+89%).
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 VOTER FORMATION PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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.
Chief executive
Tatenda Musapatike
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.3M.
16 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 VOTER FORMATION PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
VOTER FORMATION PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
79% 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 VOTER FORMATION PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 87% · 2022 35% · 2023 33% — 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
64% of VOTER FORMATION PROJECT's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
VOTER FORMATION PROJECT 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 VOTER FORMATION PROJECT
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
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 22 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VOTER FORMATION PROJECT: 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 VOTER FORMATION PROJECT?
- VOTER FORMATION PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,132,400 to it, the largest being VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ($4,110,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOTER FORMATION PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $13,132,400 in grants to VOTER FORMATION PROJECT, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOTER FORMATION PROJECT?
- VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT is the largest funder on record, with $4,110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOTER FORMATION PROJECT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 38 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