RadicalxChange Foundation

What RadicalxChange Foundation does

RadicalxChange Foundation is a Brooklyn-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit (RadicalxChange Foundation Ltd., New York) founded in 2018 to advance participatory governance "for the age of AI" through a body of work it terms the Plural Stack. The foundation operates as an international movement rather than a commercial vendor: its four core mechanisms — Plural Voting (quadratic voting), Plural Funding (quadratic funding for public goods), Plural Ownership (Partial Common Ownership), and Plural Money (community-controlled currencies) — are released openly alongside civic-tech prototypes, policy proposals (the Data Freedom Act, Sectoral Data Bargaining, Community Governance for Blockchain, the Handbook for Radical Local Democracy), and educational publications. Implementation is delivered through a self-serve open-source QV platform, comprehensive wiki documentation, and direct government partnerships.

The foundation's go-to-market is community-led: it runs a global chapter network of 35+ cities across North America, Europe, South America, Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Ukraine; monthly community calls; an annual conference series (Detroit 2019, Berlin 2019, London 2023, Oakland 2024, Berlin/Maine/Ukraine 2025); and hackathons including GITxCHANGE with Gitcoin. Customer segments are policymakers and governments, academics and researchers, builders and developers, community organizers, and creators — none of whom pay for access. Revenue is sourced exclusively from donations (PayPal, Coinbase Commerce crypto) and partnership/grant funding (e.g., Golem Foundation), with no disclosed commercial pricing or API.

Notable implementation evidence includes Colorado legislative caucuses using Plural Voting, Nashville Metro Council's participatory budget pilot, the first US online Plural Voting participatory budgeting pilot in NYC Council District 9 (Harlem) for a $1M capital budget, the Partial Common Ownership for Art project with Serpentine Arts Technologies, and Taiwan's PDIS / Audrey Tang Participation Officer Network track record (80 collaborative workshops, 210 petitions passing threshold, 100 million plastic straws removed annually). The foundation's recent strategic direction is shifting from civic-voting tools toward AI policy and data-rights infrastructure — including Trusted Data Intermediary prototypes with OpenMined and King's College London — and a 2026 Japanese parliamentary breakthrough (Team Mirai, 11 seats) inspired by the Plurality book.

Name

RadicalxChange Foundation

Legal name

RadicalxChange Foundation Ltd.

Website

https://radicalxchange.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

RadicalxChange Foundation is a Brooklyn-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that develops the Plural Stack — open governance mechanisms (quadratic voting, funding, ownership, money) — and deploys them through government pilots, a 35+ city chapter network, and policy proposals targeting AI-era data rights and democratic participation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Participatory Governance Tools

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Civic and Social Organizations (81341)

akta.pro primary industry

International Grantmaking & Development Foundations (BPAGAKAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Federated Giving Organizations (e.g., United Way-type) (BPAGAKAG), Open-Source & Developer Communities (BPAMABAM), On-Chain Voting & Proposal Systems (FSAPAHAA)

Keywords

• Participatory governance
• Quadratic voting
• Public goods funding
• Civic technology
• Democratic innovation

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: The organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that accepts donations via PayPal and cryptocurrency (Coinbase) to fund its operations, research, and community programs.
2. Partnership and Grant Funding: Receives support through partnerships with foundations (e.g., Golem Foundation) for specific projects like Community Governance for Blockchain.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

RadicalxChange Foundation develops and disseminates the Plural Stack — a suite of four interoperable democratic-governance mechanisms (Plural Voting, Plural Funding, Plural Ownership, Plural Money) — packaged with civic-tech prototypes, policy proposals, and a global practitioner community. Its core deliverable is the methodology, mathematical mechanisms, and open-source software tools (notably the QuadraticVote.radicalxchange.org online voting platform) that governments, civic-tech builders, and community organizations adopt to run participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, and other democratic processes.

Product overview

RadicalxChange Foundation is an international nonprofit advancing participatory governance for the age of AI. Their product portfolio consists of the Plural Stack—a suite of four core governance mechanisms (Plural Voting, Plural Funding, Plural Ownership, and Plural Money)—alongside civic-tech prototype implementations and policy proposals. The core Plural Stack tools work together as interlocking mechanisms for democratic decision-making and resource allocation: Plural Voting enables nuanced collective preference expression; Plural Funding democratizes resource distribution; Plural Ownership reimagines asset stewardship; and Plural Money enables community-controlled economies. These are complemented by real-world implementation projects (participatory budgeting pilots in NYC, Colorado, and Nashville; citizen assemblies) and policy frameworks (Data Freedom Act, Data Escrows, Participation Officer Networks, Community Governance for Blockchain, the Plural Stack policy framework) that translate experimental governance mechanisms into actionable institutional design.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Plural Stack: A policy and design framework for building digital infrastructure that is plural by architecture rather than extractive by default
• Plural Voting
• Plural Funding
• Plural Ownership
• Plural Money
• Quadratic Vote Platform

Products and services

• Plural Voting Plural Voting is a collective decision-making mechanism (quadratic voting) in which participants are given a fixed budget of voice credits to allocate across options, with the cost of each additional vote on the same option increasing quadratically (1 vote costs 1 credit, 2 votes cost 4, 3 votes cost 9). It enables governments, organizations, and communities to surface not just which option is preferred but how strongly, protecting minority interests and encouraging nuanced representation of group sentiment.
• Plural Funding Plural Funding is a democratic funding mechanism that allocates resources toward public goods using quadratic-funding principles. It matches individual contributions with a funding pool in a way that gives more influence to smaller donors, preventing wealthy actors from dominating funding decisions and enabling more equitable distribution of capital to public goods.
• Plural Ownership (Partial Common Ownership) Plural Ownership is a governance and ownership model, including Partial Common Ownership, that allows assets to be stewarded as plural, relational assets rather than exclusive private commodities. It implements Harberger Taxes and choice-based mechanisms to enable more equitable asset stewardship, and has been prototyped through the Partial Common Ownership for Serpentine Arts Technologies project.
• Plural Money Plural Money is a framework for community-controlled monetary systems that give residents direct control over their local economy through features such as community treasuries and exit controls, creating mediums of exchange that keep value circulating within communities. It has been piloted in Edge City and related local-economy experiments.
• QuadraticVote Online Platform The QuadraticVote platform at quadraticvote.radicalxchange.org is an open-source online voting system that implements Plural Voting for any organization to use in decision-making processes. It has been used to run participatory budgeting pilots, government consultations, and community decision processes, and is documented in the Wiki for self-serve adoption.
• Plural Stack Framework The Plural Stack is the integrated framework combining Plural Voting, Plural Funding, Plural Ownership, and Plural Money as one deployable package for democratic governance and resource allocation. It is positioned as a policy and design framework for building digital infrastructure that is plural by architecture rather than extractive by default, and is the core reference architecture for RxC's toolset.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80 collaborative meetings held in Taiwan between 2015-2020, with 210 petitions passing the 5,000-signature threshold
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• The Civic CanopycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Partnership with The Civic Canopy and Healthy Democracy to develop and pilot a novel multi-faceted citizen engagement methodology for Colorado residents to deliberate on climate preparedness policy.
• Golem FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Golem Foundation supported the development of the Community Governance for Blockchain framework, with Wildland as the case study project. The partnership focused on moving from plutocratic (one-token-one-vote) to plural governance models in Web3.
• Taiwan Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2016PDIS is the policy lab within Taiwan's Executive Yuan that developed the Participation Officer Network model in collaboration with RadicalxChange. Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister and founding RxC community member, led this partnership that became the foundational model for open government practices later adopted globally.
• Healthy DemocracycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with RxC and The Civic Canopy for Colorado Citizens Assembly project on climate preparedness policy.
• Serpentine Arts TechnologiesflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerRxC incubated and built Partial Common Ownership for Art project with Serpentine Arts Technologies, prototyping how art can be stewarded as a plural, relational asset.
• Holly Herndon & Mat DryhurstflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration through Serpentine Arts Technologies to create a legal and governance framework for a dataset of UK choir audio recordings for AI model training, pioneering Trusted Data Intermediary concept.
• Centre for Data Futures, King's College LondonflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for Trusted Data Intermediary framework development in the cultural sector.
• OpenMined FoundationflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerBuilding a Trusted Data Intermediary to help news organizations regain bargaining power when negotiating access to their proprietary data with LLM companies.
• Secure Internet Voting (SIV)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSIV collaborated with RxC on NYC Participatory Budgeting pilot using Quadratic Voting, providing secure verified voting platform technology.
• Charles River AssociatesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporter of 2019 Berlin Conference.
• Factory BerlinminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporter and venue provider for 2019 Berlin Conference.
• Accelerator FrankfurtminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporter of 2019 Berlin Conference.
• AWOminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Trusted Data Intermediary for UK Choral AI Dataset project.
• Keystone LawminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Trusted Data Intermediary for UK Choral AI Dataset project.
• Nets4DemminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as organizational supporter/partner of RadicalxChange.
• MyDataminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization in data rights and privacy ecosystem.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• OpenMined Foundation: OpenMined is a nonprofit building infrastructure for privacy-preserving AI and data sovereignty, including data union primitives that align with RxC's Sectoral Data Bargaining and Trusted Data Intermediary work. Both are mission-driven foundations with overlapping partners (e.g., King's College London) and a shared thesis that individuals should control their data contributions to AI.
• Gitcoin: Gitcoin is the most well-known implementer of quadratic funding for public goods in Web3, having funded hundreds of open-source and ecosystem projects. It is RxC's closest functional peer: both built the software and theory for plural resource allocation, both engage Web3 governance communities, and both run grant programs powered by quadratic matching.
• The Civic Canopy: The Civic Canopy is a civic engagement nonprofit that delivers deliberative democracy programs (e.g., Citizens Assemblies on climate). RxC partnered with them and Healthy Democracy on the Colorado Citizens Assembly; both organizations sit in the same niche of designing and running high-quality democratic participation processes for governments.
• Healthy Democracy: Healthy Democracy designs and runs deliberative processes like Citizens Initiative Reviews and Citizens Assemblies across the US. RxC co-piloted the Colorado Citizens Assembly on climate with them, making them a direct functional peer in the civic-engagement-and-deliberation space.
• Golem Foundation: Golem Foundation is a Swiss nonprofit funding research and tooling for plural governance in Web3, and is an active grant-maker behind RxC's Community Governance for Blockchain framework. It is a peer in mission and structure (501-equivalent foundation funding democratic-innovation research) rather than in software product.
• Democracy Foundation: The Democracy Foundation (formerly Democracy Fund) is a major US foundation that funds democratic innovation, election integrity, and civic technology. It is comparable to RxC in being a mission-driven foundation actively advancing participatory governance, though at materially larger scale.
• DemocracyEarth Foundation: DemocracyEarth is a nonprofit building decentralized governance tools (originally on the blockchain) for self-sovereign identity and liquid democracy voting. Its mission and product surface overlap directly with RxC's Plural Voting and Social Identity stack, and it targets the same Web3 governance market.
• Metagov: Metagov is a research-focused nonprofit that studies and prototypes mechanisms for governance across online communities, including quadratic and other non-plutocratic voting systems. It is closely comparable to RxC in combining open governance research with civic-tech implementations, and its work frequently references and builds on Plural Stack primitives.

Emerging players

• Coordination.org: Coordination.org is a newer nonprofit initiative researching cooperation and governance for plural societies, including AI and Web3. It is an emerging peer to RxC's Plurality-focused research stream and operates in adjacent intellectual territory with overlapping collaborators.

Regional players

• PDIS (Public Digital Innovation Space): PDIS is Taiwan's Executive Yuan civic-tech policy lab that originated the Participation Officer Network model with RxC. It is a close functional peer in digital-democracy practice but operates as a government agency in Taiwan, not a US nonprofit.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/RadxChange
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCxRk8v1Wcxa1TIKTvqrtSOw
• Instagraminstagram.com/radxchange

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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