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Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR)
| Center for Election Innovation and Research | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Location: | Washington, D.C. |
| Type: | 501(c)(3) |
| Top official: | David Becker, Executive Director |
| Founder(s): | David Becker |
| Year founded: | 2016 |
| Website: | Official website |
The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) is a 501(c)(3) based in Washington, D.C. As of August 2025, the group's website described its core mission as: "To work with election officials and build confidence in elections that voters should trust and do trust."[1]
Background
CEIR was founded in August 2016 by David Becker. According to their website, Becker founded CEIR "in response to the historic decline in voter turnout and the impending threat of foreign interference that seeks to further divide our nation and depress citizen engagement." Before founding the nonprofit, Becker worked as director for Pew Charitable Trust's elections program and as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.[1][2]
Leadership
As of August 2025, the following individuals held board positions with CEIR:[3]
- David Becker
- Deborah Enix-Ross
- Trey Grayson
- Kevin Kennedy
- Elizabeth Yang
Work and activities
Legislative and policy work
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced on September 1 that they were providing $300 million in funding to support nonprofits to provide assistance to city and county election offices, with $50 million going to CEIR and $250 million going to the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL).[4]
According to a press release, the $50 million donation helped "CEIR to further scale up this work, helping election officials across the nation reach their voters with critical information about voter registration, mail voting, early voting, polling locations and hours, and the vote-counting process to make participating in this election convenient and secure for all eligible voters."[4]
Finances
The following is a breakdown of CEIR's revenues and expenses from 2017 to 2024. The information comes from ProPublica
| Year | Revenue | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $0.28 million | $0.08 million |
| 2018 | $0.89 million | $0.52 million |
| 2019 | $1.0 million | $0.76 million |
| 2020 | $1.1 million | $0.79 million |
| 2021 | $56.9 million | $51.1 million |
| 2022 | $23.4 million | $18.6 million |
| 2023 | $2.8 million | $3.1 million |
| 2024 | $9.4 million | $2.9 million |
See also
- What is an influencer?
- Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL)
- Non-profits providing vote by mail support to city and county election offices
- Center for Tech and Civic Life's (CTCL) grants to election agencies, 2020
- Laws governing the private funding of elections
- National influencers
External links
- Center for Election Innovation and Research official website
- Center for Election Innovation and Research on Facebook
- Center for Election Innovation and Research on X
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7J09L5Uej_zImc-fUHc-Ew/videos Center for Election Innovation and Research on Youtube]
- Center for Election Innovation and Research on LinkedIn
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