GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

All Voting Is Local Action

Washington, DC · EIN 87-3894840. Reported 25 grants totalling $679,700 to 24 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

24organizations funded
$11,000median reported grant
$679,700granted, 2022-2024
6%of grantees funded again the next year
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For All Voting Is Local Action, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in civil rights (NTEE R01).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 6% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $11,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $35,000; the smallest was $6,700 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 - $250,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Adrc ActionTempe, AZ$100,000112022
RuralorganizingorgColumbus, OH$100,000112024
The Voter ProjectPhiladelphia, PA$100,000112022
Living United for Change in ArizonaPhoenix, AZ$55,000112023
Fuerte Arts MovementPhoenix, AZ$40,000112023
Organize PennsylvaniaPittsburgh, PA$40,000112023
Nevada Voter Freedom AllianceHenderson, NV$35,000112024
Voteamerica IncSacramento, CA$25,000112023
Civic Engagement Beyond VotingTempe, AZ$24,000222024
Lee County NAACP Unit 5110BFort Myers, FL$20,000112022
Asian American Advocacy Fund IncNorcross, GA$15,000112022
Pastors United Community Advocacy IncMilwaukee, WI$15,000112024
Arizona WinslPhoenix, AZ$11,000112022
1HOOD PowerPittsburgh, PA$10,000112023
AccessDearborn, MI$10,000112024
Asian Pacific Islander Political Al LiancePhiladelphia, PA$10,000112023
Equal Ground Education Fund IncOrlando, FL$10,000112024
Florida Rising Together IncMiami, FL$10,000112024
Free the Ballot Incarcerated Voter Family NetworkPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112024
Straight Ahead OrganizationPittsburgh, PA$10,000112022
Progress Georgia IncAtlanta, GA$9,000112024
Bvm Capacity Building Institute IncAtlanta, GA$7,000112024
Fair Fight Action IncAtlanta, GA$7,000112024
Ohio Coalition on Black Civic ParticipationToledo, OH$6,700112023

1 of 24 (4%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 24 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Civil Rights
13 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Religion
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org
Education
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20226$256,000$17,500
20238$196,700$17,500
202411$227,000$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

34% of its giving went to organizations in Arizona. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Arizona
$230K
Pennsylvania
$180K
Ohio
$107K
Florida
$40K
Georgia
$38K
Nevada
$35K
California
$25K
Wisconsin
$15K

Down to the city

Tempe, AZ
$124K
Philadelphia, PA
$120K
Phoenix, AZ
$106K
Columbus, OH
$100K
Pittsburgh, PA
$60K
Henderson, NV
$35K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Tides Foundation15 shared recipientsSixteen Thirty Fund12 shared recipientsAmerica Votes11 shared recipientsAll Hands on Deck Network Inc11 shared recipientsNew Venture Fund10 shared recipientsTides Advocacy9 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Arizona.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from All Voting Is Local Action's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 4 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 11 Dupont Circle Nw 575, Washington, DC, 20036.

EIN 87-3894840 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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