State Leadership Project

About State Leadership Project

State Leadership Project’s largest recent grant was $7,367,765 to Strategic Victory Fund in 2025, and that scale shows how heavily the funder relies on a small number of state-focused intermediaries. Across its recent giving, the project backs state-level progressive civic infrastructure rather than direct service delivery: donor collaboratives, voter-engagement networks, election-protection groups, and organizations that coordinate staffing or program support for civic campaigns. It also includes some support for local news infrastructure tied to civic information. The pattern is visible in repeated support for Strategic Victory Fund in 2023, 2024, and 2025, plus substantial awards to Goodnation Foundation, Indiana Democracy Collective, and several state-based civic tables and alliances. The recipients are overwhelmingly U.S.-based, with grants spread across multiple states and concentrated in organizations that operate at the state or regional level. The foundation’s recent grants also show a preference for general support and general program support, often framed within 501(c)(3) restrictions. That combination points to a grantmaker focused on building durable political and civic capacity through intermediaries, networks, and statewide organizing structures.

What State Leadership Project Funds

A major theme is state-level voter engagement and election protection. In 2023, State Leadership Project gave $225,000 to Imagine North Carolina First for election protection and nonpartisan voter engagement and GOTV, and another $225,000 to Georgia Alliance Education Fund for the same purpose. It also gave $100,000 to Civic Tn in 2023 for election protection and nonpartisan voter engagement and GOTV. Another cluster supports donor collaboratives and civic funders. The foundation awarded $125,000 in 2025 to Utah Donor Collaborative, $125,000 to Oklahoma Donor Alliance Inc, and $125,000 to Alliance for a Better Iowa, all as general support. Those grants align with its interest in coordinating civic funding at the state level. The project also funds organizations serving historically underrepresented voters and state civic networks. Examples include $200,000 to North Star Prosperity and $200,000 to New Day Nevada Inc in 2023 for programming to increase voter participation in historically underrepresented communities, plus $400,000 to Faith in Indiana to support the Indiana Voices Project.

How State Leadership Project Gives