Article IV
Arlington, VA · EIN 86-2820532. Reported 100 grants totalling $82.3M to 71 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 71 distinct organizations, with 22% 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.
- How much its list changes. 48% 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 $100,000. Half of what it reported fell between $35,000 and $300,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $18.4M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vote Yes on 3 | Las Vegas, NV | $18.4M | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Montanans for Election Ref | Helena, MT | $18.2M | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Citizens Not Politicians | Columbus, OH | $10.7M | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oregon Ranked Choice Votin | Corvallis, OR | $6,465,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| No on 2 | Anchorage, AK | $4,900,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Better Elections | Saint Louis, MO | $4,812,978 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Yes on 117 | Portland, OR | $2,830,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Idahoans for Open Primarie | Boise, ID | $2,220,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oregon Ranked Choice Voting Advocates | Corvallis, OR | $1,467,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fair Vote Minnesota | Saint Paul, MN | $1,190,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alaskans for Better Elections | Anchorage, AK | $1,015,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| One Person One Vote | Columbus, OH | $850,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fairvote Action Fund | Silver Spring, MD | $815,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Wyoming Free | Buffalo, WY | $651,668 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ballot Access Mississippi | Ridgeland, MS | $607,781 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Conservative Majority Fund | Anchorage, AK | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Utah Ranked Choice Voting Action | Heber, UT | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Common Cause | Washington, DC | $368,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nebraskans for Better Gove | Norfolk, NE | $349,200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy Incorporated | Washington, DC | $343,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Dakota Citizens Prot | Fargo, ND | $324,433 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vermont Public Interest Research Group Inc | Montpelier, VT | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Las Vegas, NV | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Nevada Building T | Las Vegas, NV | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eternal Vigilance Action | Holly Springs, GA | $240,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Unity Fund | Annandale, VA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Conservative Leadership Fo | Ballwin, MO | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fix the System - Wisconsin Action Inc | Middleton, WI | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund | Columbus, OH | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oklahoma United for Progre | Tulsa, OK | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Conservatives Polic | Alexandria, VA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eternal Vigilance Action I | Canton, GA | $187,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nebraka Votes | Lincoln, NE | $185,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rank the Vote Ohio | Stow, OH | $170,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Platte Institute for Economic Research Inc | Omaha, NE | $158,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Utah Ranked Choice Voting | Heber, UT | $157,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Protect Ar Constitution | Fayetteville, AR | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Equality State Policy Center | Laramie, WY | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fairvote Washington | Bothell, WA | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Veterans for All Voters | Brentwood, MO | $120,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Common Cause Education Fund | Washington, DC | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| House Majority Forward | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Missouri Conservative Valu | Jefferson City, MO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Four for Montana Action Fu | Helena, MT | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Civic Design | Cambridge, MD | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Votes Idaho Company | Boise, ID | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Representwomen Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $67,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ranked Choice Voting Maryland | Silver Spring, MD | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fairvote | Silver Spring, MD | $51,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Count Mi Vote | Lansing, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Count Mi Vote Education Fund | Lansing, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Voters First | Stonington, CT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Win Minnesota | Saint Paul, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 4 Score 7 | Alexandria, VA | $36,028 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Upvote Virginia | Chesterfield, VA | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Progressive Network Inc | Portland, OR | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Partners in Democracy Education Inc | Foxboro, MA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Primaries Inc | New York, NY | $33,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Utahns Protecting Our Cons | Salt Lake City, UT | $27,337 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Conservative Accountabilit | Boise, ID | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Democracy a Journal of Ideas Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sightline Institute | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Dakota Voters First | Sioux Falls, SD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wy Vote | Sheridan, WY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Civic Action | Albuquerque, NM | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Equality New Mexico Foundation | Albuquerque, NM | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Mexico Black Leadership Council | Albuquerque, NM | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nmnativevote | Albuquerque, NM | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Utahans for Responsive Gov | Salt Lake City, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| R Street Institute | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Alaska | Anchorage, AK | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
23 of 71 (32%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 71 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | $1,033,978 | $516,989 |
| 2022 | 22 | $5,416,128 | $30,514 |
| 2023 | 27 | $6,401,334 | $140,000 |
| 2024 | 49 | $69.5M | $100,000 |
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
23% of its giving went to organizations in Nevada. 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $100,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Nevada.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Article IV's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 29 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: 2200 Wilson Blvd Ste 102-72, Arlington, VA, 22201.
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