Grants for voter registration groups

Name: Top 25 grants made to voter registration and education organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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560 voter registration and education organizations received at least $164.0 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 606 grants made from 461 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 461 foundations, 84% made just a single grant to voter orgs, and 2% made grants to four or more voter orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$163,956,114

Total grant dollars given to voter registration groups

606

Number of grants made annually to voter registration groups

461

Number of grantmakers funding voter registration groups

$1,500

Median grant size to voter registration groups

Foundations that support voter registration and education organizations

Out of all grants made to voter registration groups, 68% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 87% of the dollar-value of grants to voter orgs. Foundations funding voter orgs also made grants to environmental education programs, multiservice human service organizations, natural resource conservation nonprofits, christian organizations, and civil liberties organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	317
Medium	62
Large	81

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	15
Private	374
Corporate	25
Other	47

Grants made

Grants made to voter orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	388
2-3	60
4-10	12
11+	1

Top 10 foundations supporting voter registration and education organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to voter orgs	Number of grants made to voter orgs	Median grant size
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	19	$1,000
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	9	$350
Liberty Hill Foundation	CA	Metro	0.2%	8	$2,000
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	7	$200
All Hands on Deck Network	MA	National	0.5%	6	$5,000
Alliance for Youth Action	DC	National	6.2%	6	$5,000
The Double E-Foundation	CO	National	24.3%	6	$1,000
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	0.0%	6	$720
Sixteen Thirty Fund	DC	National	38.5%	5	$5,000
The Ford Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	5	$2,575

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Voter registration and education organizations grantees

Voter registration groups with more than $5 million in total revenues received 99% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 45% of all voter orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	587
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	19

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,250
$100k-$500k	$2,000
$500k-$1M	$2,500
$1M-$5M	$1,500
>$5M	$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
District of Columbia	163
New York	92
California	65
Virginia	43
Other	243

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Washington DC	194
New York City	93
Los Angeles	24
Seattle	23
Other	268

Top 25 grants made to voter registration groups

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
International Republican Institute (IRI)	$33,696,723	Democracy Assistance	Consortium For Elections and Political Process Strengthening
America Votes	$27,150,000	Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy	Sixteen Thirty Fund
International Republican Institute (IRI)	$18,333,281	Democratic Governance & Political Parties	National Endowment for Democracy
The Broad Center	$13,025,400	Education - To Develop and Support Leaders and Managers of Public School Districts, Charter Management Orgs and State and Federal Education Agencies	The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
Center for American Progress Action Fund	$8,847,495	Public Education & Advocacy	Center for American Progress (CAP)
League of Conservation Voters	$8,000,000	Environmental Programs	Sixteen Thirty Fund
UnidosUS	$7,637,657	Support the Racial Equity Anchor Institutions in Advancing Racial Equity and Racial Healing Thru Increase Civic Engagement in Communities of Color and the Development and Deployment of Effective Multiracial Narratives	W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
League of Conservation Voters	$5,100,000	Enviromental Education, Capacity Building, & Engagement	League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
Accountable Us	$4,649,850	Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy	New Venture Fund
Accountable Us	$4,649,850	Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy	New Venture Fund
League of Conservation Voters	$4,500,000	Educational	Center for American Progress Action Fund
Working Families Organization (WFO)	$4,488,120	Project Support	Tides Foundation
Voter Registration Project	$4,000,000	Enviromental Education, Capacity Building, & Engagement	League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
March for Our Lives Foundation	$3,803,650	Support General Operating Around Promoting Activism, Civic Engagement and Gun Violence Prevention	Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund
The Voter Participation Center	$3,647,000	Civil Participation	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
League of Conservation Voters	$3,150,000	Program Grant	NEO Philanthropy
League of Conservation Voters	$3,000,000	Environment/health	Tides Advocacy
Voter Registration Project	$2,500,000	Democracy	Proteus Fund
TurboVote	$2,500,000	General	Quadrivium
League of Conservation Voters	$5,000	Cash Paid	Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues
Young Invincibles (YI)	$5,000	Support the Young Invincibles 10th Anniversary Celebration in Washington, DC, on June 11, 2019	Annie E Casey Foundation (AECF)
Charlottesville Tomorrow	$5,000	The Insight Project on Education Equity	Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Virginia Civic Engagement Table (VCET)	$5,000	Advocacy Work for the 2020 Census in the Cacf Service Area	Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Institute for Community Empowerment	$5,000	General Operating	Sarah I Schieffelin Residuary Trust#
League of Women Voters of Iowa	$5,000	Grant Distribution for 19th Amendment Centennial Commemoration	Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Voter registration groups" category for this page is determined by the "R40: Voter Education, Registration" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.