Mississippi · Nonprofit
WE MUST VOTE INC
WE MUST VOTE INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $278k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $314k
- Net assets
- $-63700
What We Must Vote Inc does
Mission
We Must Vote, Inc. is a nonprofit organization established to provide factual information about the voting process, get people registered to vote, and ensure they participate in local and federal elections. Because many people feel that their vote is not important, in order to have a society of committed voters, it is necessary to teach and enlighten citizens not only of their right to vote and what it cost but also the importance of availing themselves to the process in a factual and truthful way
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During 2025, We Must Vote Inc conducted training for employees to prepare volunteers for Voter Registration programs. We conducted 12 voter registration programs in Hinds and Yazoo Counties alone, and we did door-to-door campaigns, too, to help people get registered in underserved communities saturated with elderly people and those who lack adequate transportation. We got more than 300 people registered to vote and made sure that they were all aware of where their precincts were located. We also worked with other organizations to help people get to the polls for local elections. Additionally, miscellaneous costs incurred are included in this expense.
$12,000 spent$12,000 earned by the program9% of program spendingWe Must Vote, Inc. conducted a Rural Rapid Response Initiative, primarily across the Mississippi Delta region. We visited homes and conducted meetings giving the rural residents information on voting and answering questions that many of them had about their impact. We also conducted voter registration at community colleges in rural areas. We handed out t-shirts as incentives for registration at the colleges, and we also used poll workers for the election that took place during this initiative and paid them a stipend for their work. Hopefully many of them will volunteer to work the polls when they complete their college education.
$5,000 spent$5,000 earned by the program4% of program spendingWe Must Vote conducted a Re-Entry/Parole Initiative and subsequent Expungement Clinics to assist those persons about to be released from incarceration.
$20,000 spent$20,000 earned by the program15% of program spendingWe Must Vote, Inc. conducted expungement clinics and re-entry/parole initiatives as well as community college voter initiatives, election mobilization programs, and youth civic engagement programs.
$93,500 spent$93,520 earned by the program72% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $130,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $129k to $-63700 (−149%).
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: 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WE MUST VOTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 WE MUST VOTE 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
WE MUST VOTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 WE MUST VOTE INC.
“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
51% of WE MUST VOTE 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 $154k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Mississippi, across 6 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k 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
WE MUST VOTE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WE MUST VOTE 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
28% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WE MUST VOTE 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 WE MUST VOTE INC?
- WE MUST VOTE INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WE MUST VOTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $314,000 in grants to WE MUST VOTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WE MUST VOTE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WE MUST VOTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 8 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