Movement Voter Project funds local organizing and movement-building groups working to shift culture, win power, and shape policy.

Founded in 2015 by Billy Wimsatt, MVP grew out of frustration that most political giving goes to candidates' TV ads and consultants instead of the community organizing that actually moves elections.

We invest in groups doing year-round organizing, electoral work, and advocacy to shift culture, win power, and shape policy at every level — with a strong emphasis on organizing working-class communities of all races.

MVP invests in grantee partners working across three connected strategies:

We invest in long-term organizing in every top swing state and race up and down the ballot, continuously adjusting our targeting as the political landscape shifts.

What is organizing?

MVP is not affiliated with the Democratic Party.

Instead of funding candidates, MVP focuses on investing in year-round organizing groups.

No. Our role is not to lead the work, but to fund and strengthen the work.

Our grantmaking is led by a team of national and state advisors, each with years of experience in local, state, and national organizing, movement building, and political strategy.

Our national and state advising team proactively talent-scouts local groups; assesses the quality and scope of their electoral and year-round organizing work as well as their organizational health; and conducts deep, multi-point reference checks using insights from key movement leaders, national and in-state organizers, peer funders, and other allied organizations.

MVP goes far above and beyond the traditional grantor/grantee relationship.

Measures of Success

To maximize both impact and responsiveness to critical threats and opportunities, MVP:

Here is just a partial list of our grantee partners in the top presidential battlegrounds.

MVP works closely with our partners and allies on all levels of the progressive organizing and voter engagement field to:

There are so many effective and strategic groups to support with your time, money, and energy — in fact, MVP coordinates closely with many of them.

Flip the Vote and MVP are allied organizations that share the same core premise: The best way to block authoritarianism, build democracy, and win elections is to fund year-round, community-based organizing. Flip the Vote consults closely with MVP on strategy and targeting, primarily funding groups that are also MVP grantee partners.

Instead of gambling billions on candidates and ads every few years, we suggest investing in the conditions for real, long-term governing power.

Movement Voter Project, Movement Voter PAC, and Movement Voter Fund are three legally distinct and separate organizations.

ActBlue is the most widely used digital platform for processing online donations by Democratic and progressive candidates and organizations, including MVP.

Your information is private to the full extent of the law.

What is MVP’s “overhead ratio”?

When you give online via ActBlue, you will get a receipt by email from ActBlue at the email address you provide.

No. There are no legal caps on contributions to Movement Voter PAC, Movement Voter Project, or Movement Voter Fund.

Yes! We are happy to direct restricted gifts to specific regions, states, or focus areas. Restrictions must be in writing, with a recommended minimum of $25,000 (or less if a first-time gift or tied to larger giving).

If you set up a recurring donation to MVP through ActBlue, you can:

Yes. Lawful Permanent Residents (green card holders) have the same rights as U.S. citizens to donate to PAC, 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(3) organizations.

For PAC donations: Yes, if you are an employee of a federal contractor. For 501(c)(4) and 501(c)(3) donations: There are no federal-contractor restrictions.

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In the 2025 elections, across over a dozen states and nearly one hundred races, MVP partners helped win key races up and down the ballot. Toplines:

Elections We Helped Win

Here are our partisan* money-moving stats:

The results of the 2025 elections put to rest the question of whether rightward shifts among voters of color and young voters in 2024 were signs of a permanent political realignment. They were not.

In response to 2024, we are expanding our strategy while also refining our grantmaking criteria.

Let's address the elephant in the room… what if Trump tries to cancel the elections?

MVP and our allies and grantee partners are waging a multi-pronged, all-hands-on-deck effort to stop authoritarianism and pull democracy back from the brink.

Thanks to our decentralized election administration system, any attempt to bypass electoral guardrails would require the complicity of thousands of state and local officials.

MVP partners are actively supporting efforts to counter GOP gerrymandering — and bolster Democrats’ counter-efforts.

To defeat autocracy and shift the trajectory of our country, we need to win hearts and minds en masse by pairing local organizing with new-media engagement.

MVP is investing in grantee partners working to embolden Democrats to fight for bold, popular agendas that can win back voters we’ve lost.

MVP funds (and has always funded) youth organizing, but the simple truth is that the right has invested far more in scaling up this work on their side, both offline and online, with some of the most obvious examples being Turning Point USA and PragerU. 

The two are deeply interrelated. In many ways, this question presents a false choice. 

In 2026, MVP aims to move at least $50 million in partisan funds.

MVP wants to see lasting peace, safety, and self-determination for every precious life: Palestinian, Israeli, and all people living in the land.

Yes! You can help MVP raise funds for organizing and movement building — and volunteer directly with MVP grantee partners and allies.

MVP doesn’t lead GOTV work ourselves; instead, we focus on funding the community-based organizing groups already doing this work in the most critical places and races.