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WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC

WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,000 to it, the largest being UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$142k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$66k
Net assets
$97k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Western States Issue Education Fund Inc does

Mission

Voter registration activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Voter registration activities.

    $44,694 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,694.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($194k) Expenses 100 ($199k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2018 Revenue 76 ($147k) Expenses 77 ($152k) Net assets 38 ($3k)2019 Revenue 71 ($138k) Expenses 53 ($106k) Net assets 401 ($35k)2020 Revenue 5 ($10k) Expenses 22 ($44k) Net assets 13 ($1k)2021 Revenue 43 ($83k) Expenses 12 ($23k) Net assets 690 ($61k)2022 Revenue 71 ($138k) Expenses 91 ($181k) Net assets 203 ($18k)2023 Revenue 66 ($129k) Expenses 43 ($86k) Net assets 681 ($60k)2024 Revenue 67 ($129k) Expenses 85 ($169k) Net assets 225 ($20k)2025 Revenue 73 ($142k) Expenses 33 ($65k) Net assets 1101 ($97k)
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Revenue (73)Expenses (33)Net assets (1101)Peer revenue range

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 $20k to $97k (+389%).

$9k
$3k
$35k
$1k
$61k
$18k
$60k
$20k
$97k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
−$5k
’18
$32k
’19
−$34k
’20
$60k
’21
−$43k
’22
$42k
’23
−$40k
’24
$77k
’25
0.5
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $12k.

Funder
'17
'19
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND 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

WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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 WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’19
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin54% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC?
WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,000 to it, the largest being UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $66,000 in grants to WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC?
UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WESTERN STATES ISSUE EDUCATION FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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