Center for Election Innovation & Research
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About Center for Election Innovation & Research
CEIR is a nonprofit working with election officials to build confidence in elections that voters should trust and do trust; it pursues a nonpartisan approach to restore trust in the American election system and promote procedures that encourage voter participation while ensuring integrity and security.
Focus Areas
Election administrationElection security & cybersecurityVoter registration & turnoutElection data & researchLegal defense for election officials (EOLDN)Communications to combat disinformation
Who They Fund
professional election officials and administratorselection administration bodies/agenciesvoters requiring accessible/convenient voting (including underserved or accessibility-needing voters)
Funding Style
About Center for Election Innovation & Research
The Center for Election Innovation & Research made its largest recent grant to the Pennsylvania Department of State, a $13,024,512 award in 2023 that anchors its role as a funder of election administration. The public charity supports nonpartisan work aimed at building confidence in elections, with a clear emphasis on procedures that encourage voter participation while supporting integrity and security. In the latest grants on file, its awards also reached the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State, the Iowa Office of the Secretary of State, and the South Carolina State Election Commission, showing repeated support for state election systems. The foundation’s giving profile points to large-scale, institutional grants rather than small awards, and the recipient list is concentrated in public agencies and election-related bodies. A smaller grant to Temple University adds a research and higher-education dimension to the portfolio. Across the recent record, the foundation appears focused on election officials and the systems they manage, rather than direct service grants to individuals or broad program support. Its work is aligned with election integrity, modernization, data, and communication efforts that support trust in democratic processes.
What Center for Election Innovation & Research Funds
Election administration is central to the foundation’s grantmaking. It gave $13,024,512 to the Pennsylvania Department of State for election administration support, indicating a large commitment to state-level systems. Election security also appears in the recent record through $1,216,296 to the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State for election-related work that fits the foundation’s nonpartisan integrity focus. Voter registration and turnout are reflected in a $1,074,880 grant to the Iowa Office of the Secretary of State for election administration and related voter-access work. The portfolio also includes research-oriented support: $50,000 to Temple University, linking the foundation’s priorities with election data and research. These grants show a mix of administrative support, system security, and research capacity rather than a narrow single-program approach.
How Center for Election Innovation & Research Gives
Typical grants are large: the p25 amount is $838,015, the median is $1,073,338, and the p75 is $1,180,942. The recent record suggests institutional, multi-hundred-thousand-to-multimillion-dollar awards, with one very large outlier at the top end. The grantee list is dominated by public election agencies, and every recent grant in the dataset went to a U.S. recipient. The foundation is a public charity and does not fund individuals or make program-related investments. The available grant list is from 2023, so recurring giving cannot be assessed from multiple years here.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$17.2M
Total Assets
$13.4M
Total Revenue
$23.4M
Total Expenses
$18.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $838K and $1.2M, with a median of $1.1M.
25th Percentile
$838K
Median
$1.1M
75th Percentile
$1.2M
Geographic Reach
National5 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in PA.
Funding intensity
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