The Voter Project Fund is primarily a Pennsylvania-focused civic engagement funder that concentrates on increasing voter access and turnout—especially in Philadelphia—through early vote-by-mail activation, direct voter contact, and turnout programming. The foundation awards one very large, central grant to an operational hub (THE VOTER PROJECT) and then funds a range of local community groups, youth- and faith-based partners, and civic arts projects that carry out place-based voter outreach. Its grants emphasize tactical election-year activities and culturally rooted mobilization rather than long-term policy or research funding.
A single $875,000 grant to The Voter Project set the tone for The Voter Project Fund’s recent giving: it backs election-year operations that help Pennsylvania voters cast ballots in a safe, secure way. That anchor grant is paired with smaller awards to Philadelphia-based groups that carry out digital outreach, in-person activation, youth voting, and cultural mobilization. The pattern points to a funder focused on field work rather than long-term policy research, with money directed toward turnout programs, voter contact, and neighborhood-level outreach. The foundation’s recent grantees include PA Alliance Foundation for The Philly Download’s digital programming and Philadelphia Mural Arts for the Polls 2024 project, showing that it supports both online and arts-based civic engagement. It also funds local organizers and community nonprofits that work on early vote-by-mail activation across Philadelphia neighborhoods. The overall picture is of a Pennsylvania civic engagement funder that uses concentrated, program-specific grants to move voters from outreach to participation.
In digital outreach, The Voter Project Fund gave $200,000 to PA Alliance Foundation for The Philly Download’s digital programming. That grant sits alongside support for direct voter contact and turnout work, including $60,000 to Promote the Vote for a direct voter contact program. The funder also supports civic arts as part of voter engagement. Philadelphia Mural Arts received $57,500 for the Polls 2024 project, tying public art to election participation. Youth voting is another clear theme. Project 26 Pennsylvania received $15,000 for a youth voting program. The foundation also continued to fund early vote-by-mail activation in Philadelphia through community organizations such as Mantua Cares Association, Federation of Neighborhood Centers Inc, and New Voters Org.
The Voter Project Fund’s recent grant size pattern is highly concentrated: p25, median, and p75 are all $875,000, indicating a single dominant grant size. The latest filings also show a mix of one large operational award and many smaller, program-specific grants. The same Philadelphia-centered organizations do not appear as repeated grantees across the listed years, so the record reads more like project-based funding than a multi-year institutional portfolio. The foundation is a public charity and a regular funder, and it does not fund individuals or make program-related investments. No open application process is shown in the data.
$541K
$151K
$17M
$17.1M
Most grants fall between $875K and $875K, with a median of $875K.
25th Percentile
$875K
Median
$875K
75th Percentile
$875K
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Concentrated, tactical election-cycle giving: one dominant anchor grantee receives the largest share while numerous small-to-medium grants go to local and community organizations for short-term, programmatic voter outreach. The foundation favors many place-based, single-year operational grants over large diversified multi-year endowment support.
Notable grantees: THE VOTER PROJECT, PA Alliance Foundation, Philadelphia Mural Arts, New Voters Org, Mantua Cares Association
All listed grants go to U.S. recipients, and every recipient is in Pennsylvania or, in one case, New York. Philadelphia dominates the map: PA-based grantees include Philadelphia Mural Arts, Mantua Cares Association, Federation of Neighborhood Centers Inc, Dominican Grocers Association Nonprofit, and others across the city. Outside Philadelphia, the list includes New Voters Org in Berwyn, PA. One grant goes to Union for Reform Judaism in New York, NY, but the overall recipient distribution remains overwhelmingly Pennsylvania-centered.
The funder supports Pennsylvania voter access and turnout work, including early vote-by-mail activation, direct voter contact, youth voting programs, digital civic programming, and civic arts tied to election participation. The listed grants include a large operational award to The Voter Project and project grants for digital outreach, turnout, and Polls 2024.
Its reported grant-size distribution is unusually concentrated: p25 is $875,000, median is $875,000, and p75 is $875,000. That reflects one dominant grant size in the available data, alongside several much smaller project grants.
The foundation gives locally, with 100% of listed grants going to recipients in Pennsylvania except for one New York grantee. Philadelphia is the main recipient city, with additional Pennsylvania recipients in Berwyn and other Philadelphia-area neighborhoods.
Yes. One listed grant of $15,000 went to Project 26 Pennsylvania for a youth voting program. Youth engagement is part of the funder’s broader turnout strategy, alongside early vote-by-mail activation and direct voter contact.
The available grants read as program-specific awards tied to election-year activity rather than open-ended institutional support. The data shows one very large grant to The Voter Project and multiple smaller project grants for digital programming, direct voter contact, mural work, and early vote-by-mail activation.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $200,000 | 2025 | THE PHILLY DOWNLOAD'S DIGITAL PROGRAMMING |
| PROMOTE THE VOTE | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $60,000 | 2025 | DIRECT VOTER CONTACT PROGRAM |
| PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $57,500 | 2025 | POLLS 2024 PROJECT |
| MANTUA CARES ASSOCIATION | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $40,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $38,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| NEW VOTERS ORG | BERWYN, PA | $20,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM | NEW YORK, NY | $20,000 | 2025 | GENERAL OPERATING AND PROGRAM PURPOSES |
| DOMINICAN GROCERS ASSOCIATION NONPROFIT | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $20,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| PROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $15,000 | 2025 | YOUTH VOTING PROGRAM |
| AFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $10,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| FRONTLINE DADS INC | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $10,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| WE LOVE PHILLY | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $10,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| CHEW & CHELTEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LEGAL CHEW AND CHELTEN C | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $10,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| DEVELOPING OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDING EQUITY | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $10,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| TRASH 2 TREASURE INC | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $10,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| WHY NOT PROSPER INC | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $10,000 | 2025 | EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA |
| THE VOTER PROJECT | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $875,000 | 2023 | TO ENSURE PENNSYLVANIA VOTERS CAN CAST A BALLOT IN A SAFE, SECURE WAY |
MANTUA CARES ASSOCIATION
$40,000EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA
EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA
NEW VOTERS ORG
$20,000EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA
UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM
$20,000GENERAL OPERATING AND PROGRAM PURPOSES
DOMINICAN GROCERS ASSOCIATION NONPROFIT
$20,000EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA
PROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA
$15,000YOUTH VOTING PROGRAM
EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA
FRONTLINE DADS INC
$10,000EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA
WE LOVE PHILLY
$10,000EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA
CHEW & CHELTEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LEGAL CHEW AND CHELTEN C
$10,000EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA
DEVELOPING OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDING EQUITY
$10,000EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA
TRASH 2 TREASURE INC
$10,000EARLY VBM IN PERSON ACTIVATION IN PHILADELPHIA
THE VOTER PROJECT
$875,000TO ENSURE PENNSYLVANIA VOTERS CAN CAST A BALLOT IN A SAFE, SECURE WAY