State Voices
ActivePublic CharityCivil Rights & Advocacy
About State Voices
A nonpartisan infrastructure of permanent state-based affiliates, advocates, and organizers working to fight for a healthy multiracial democracy and build political power with Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI, and other people of color.
Focus Areas
Voter protectionRegister votersGet out the vote (GOTV)Organize and mobilize communitiesWin and defend policiesReproductive justiceEconomic justiceCensus participationRedistricting education
Who They Fund
registered and prospective votersgeneral adult citizensstudents (civic/educational programs)community-based organizations focused on civic engagement
About State Voices
State Voices concentrates on building permanent state-based civic infrastructure rather than one-off campaigns. Its recent grants show repeated support for state tables and affiliated partners that work on public education and nonpartisan civic engagement, with a recurring emphasis on voter protection, voter registration, GOTV, census participation, redistricting education, and organizing communities around democracy and policy issues. The largest recent award in the data went to State Power Fund in Youngstown, Ohio, at $1,198,488 in 2025, a signal of the scale at which the foundation backs local power-building vehicles. The pattern is broad but networked: State Voices gives to organizations such as ProGeorgia State Table Inc in Atlanta, Blueprint North Carolina in Raleigh, and Ohio Voice in Athens, pairing substantial grants with state-level civic capacity. It also supports intermediary and infrastructure partners, including Neo Philanthropy in New York and Tides Center in San Francisco, alongside state tables in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Kentucky, Nebraska, Alabama, Missouri, and New Mexico. Across these grants, the foundation’s role is less about isolated projects than about sustaining organized civic capacity in multiple states at once.
What State Voices Funds
A central theme in State Voices’ grantmaking is nonpartisan civic engagement. It funded Civic Tn in Nashville with $356,297 in 2023 and Power Coalition for Equity and Justice in New Orleans with $238,720 in 2023, both tied to public education and civic participation work. The foundation also supports voter-facing infrastructure through grants to Kentucky Civic Engagement Table in Lexington and Nebraska Civic Engagement Table in Lincoln, each appearing in the recent grants list as recipients of multi-hundred-thousand-dollar awards. Another clear line of support is state-based organizing. Alabama Forward in Montgomery received $259,400 in 2023 and $218,834 in 2024, while Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborative in Kansas City received $301,765 in 2025. The foundation’s stated focus areas also include reproductive justice, economic justice, census participation, and redistricting education, which places its civic work inside broader power-building efforts rather than a single-election frame.
How State Voices Gives
State Voices gives at a wide range of sizes, with a typical grant size at the 25th percentile of $25,000, a median of $50,000, and a 75th percentile of $155,648. The recent awards show that it also makes much larger programmatic grants, including several in the six- and seven-figure range. The recipient list shows repeat funding over multiple years, especially for state tables and affiliated civic infrastructure. ProGeorgia State Table Inc, Blueprint North Carolina, Ohio Voice, Pennsylvania Voice, Michigan Voices, Alabama Forward, Nebraska Civic Engagement Table, Kentucky Civic Engagement Table, and Tides Center all appear more than once. State Voices is a public charity and a regular funder; its active programs emphasize programmatic support, project-based grants, and nonpartisan civic capacity building. Unsolicited applications are not accepted in the active programs listed.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$6.9M
Total Assets
$15.6M
Total Revenue
$19M
Total Expenses
$24.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $25K and $156K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$25K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$156K
Geographic Reach
National26 states funded
About 7% of grants go to recipients in WI.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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