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League of Women Voters Education Fund
Washington, DC · EIN 53-0239013. Reported 96 grants totalling $2,047,984 to 44 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. 44 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 71% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $24,325; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $124,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lwv of Texas | Austin, TX | $220,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund | Columbus, OH | $152,375 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Michigan Education Fund | Lansing, MI | $131,275 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia | Washington, DC | $123,495 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Inc | Madison, WI | $118,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania Citizen Education Fun | Harrisburg, PA | $108,138 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The League of Women Voters of North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $84,450 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Arizona | Prescott, AZ | $84,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Georgia | Decatur, GA | $84,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Maine | Portland, ME | $83,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Minnesota Education Fund Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $69,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Virginia | Richmond, VA | $64,350 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Florida | Orlando, FL | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lwv of the District of Columbia | Washington DC, DC | $58,895 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| League of Women Voters of Missouri Education Fund | Saint Louis, MO | $56,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Colorado Lwvco | Denver, CO | $51,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of New York State Education Foundation Inc | Albany, NY | $48,500 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Lwv of Wisconsin | Madison, WI | $46,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Santa Fe County | Santa Fe, NM | $37,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Alabama | Vestavia Hls, AL | $30,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of New Jersey | Trenton, NJ | $27,856 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| League of Women Voters of Tennessee Education Fund | Nashville, TN | $27,050 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| League of Women Voters of Tennessee | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The League of Women Voters of Kentucky Special Projects Fund | None, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Arkansas Inc | Conway, AR | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Florida Education Fund Inc | Orlando, FL | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| League of Women Voters of California Education Fund | Sacramento, CA | $17,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| League of Women Voters of California | Sacramento, CA | $15,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| League of Women Voters of Florida | Pt Charlotte, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| League of Women Voters of New York State | East Hampton, NY | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of South Carolina Incorporated | Columbia, SC | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| League of Women Voters of Alabama Education Fund Inc | Huntsville, AL | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| League of Women Voters of Arizona Education Fund | Phoenix, AZ | $11,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| League of Women Voters of Mississippi | Jackson, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lwv of Boston Charitable Trust | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| League of Women Voters of Oregon | Salem, OR | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| League of Women Voters of South Dakota | Sioux Falls, SD | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The League of Women Voters of Kentucky Inc | None, KY | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| League of Women Voters of Kansas | Topeka, KS | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lwv of Nevada | Las Vegas, NV | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League of Women Voters of Dallas | Dallas, TX | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
24 of 44 (55%) 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 20 of 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 23 | $566,376 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 26 | $660,323 | $17,875 |
| 2022 | 20 | $287,385 | $10,762 |
| 2023 | 27 | $533,900 | $15,750 |
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
11% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. 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
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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 $15,000 -- 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 Texas.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from League of Women Voters Education Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 15 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: 1233 20TH Street Nw 500, Washington, DC, 20036.
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