Grassroots Democrats HQ

What Grassroots Democrats HQ does

Grassroots Democrats HQ (GDHQ) is a volunteer-driven Democratic political organization founded in 2019 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with FEC registration (ID C00707091). The organization's mission is to elect Democrats to federal, state, and local offices through distributed voter mobilization and youth organizing. Since founding, GDHQ has contacted over 63 million voters and supported more than 50 Democratic campaigns across multiple election cycles.

The organization operates three core programs: the Fellowship Program (40+ volunteer fellows contributing 5-10 hours weekly), Organize for Democracy (a paid 6-8 week virtual training program co-created with Blue Future for activists ages 16-25, paying $75/week), and the Student Canvassing Program (paying $50/shift to student canvassers in California congressional districts). Its technology infrastructure centers on distributed phone-banking and texting systems enabling remote volunteer coordination across multiple states simultaneously, supported by a network of 70+ affiliate Democratic organizations.

GDHQ is entirely funded by individual contributions through the ActBlue donation platform, with preset tiers of $10, $25, $50, $100, and $250. The organization has no institutional investors, no corporate funding, and operates as an independent nonprofit political organization. Its customer base spans congressional campaigns (Adam Gray CA-13, Josh Harder CA-9, Mike Levin CA-49, Will Rollins, Suozzi for Congress), state parties (California, Wisconsin, Nevada Democratic Parties), and the Harris-Walz 2024 presidential campaign. Leadership includes President Melissa Grant, Executive Director Tamara Melzer Levenson, and CFO Heidi Hu (formerly Managing Director of Fixed Income at Transamerica Investment Management), alongside a staff of 53 and a broader network of volunteer fellows.

Name

Grassroots Democrats HQ

Legal name

Grassroots Democrats HQ

Website

https://grassrootsdems.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Grassroots Democrats HQ is a volunteer-driven Democratic political organization founded in 2019 that provides voter mobilization services through phone banking, texting, canvassing, and youth organizing programs to Democratic campaigns nationwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Political Campaign Services

NAICS

Political Organizations (813940), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGADAI

Youth Leadership, Civic Education & Service-Learning Nonprofits

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Education & Youth Development Nonprofits

SECONDARYBPAGADAD

Youth Mentoring & Positive Youth Development Nonprofits

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Education & Youth Development Nonprofits

SECONDARYEDAAADAL

Civic Participation & Leadership Development (Voting, Advocacy, Community Leadership)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Citizenship & Immigrant Integration Education

Keywords

• Grassroots political organizing
• Voter mobilization services
• Distributed phone banking
• Youth campaign training
• Political canvassing programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Political Donations: The organization is entirely funded by contributions from supporters via ActBlue donation platform. Donation tiers include $10, $25, $50, $100, and $250 amounts. Donations fund youth canvassing stipends, Organize for Democracy fellow payments, and operational costs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Grassroots Democrats HQ is a non-profit political organization that recruits, trains, and coordinates volunteers nationwide to deliver voter contact services — phone banking, peer-to-peer texting, canvassing, and postcard programs — on behalf of Democratic campaigns and state parties. It also runs paid youth organizing programs (Fellowship, Organize for Democracy, Student Canvassing) that build a pipeline of trained young organizers who power these distributed organizing operations across battleground states and competitive Congressional districts.

Product overview

Grassroots Democrats HQ operates a suite of voter mobilization and youth organizing programs centered on electing Democratic candidates nationwide. The core offerings are three interconnected programs: the Fellowship Program (engaging 40+ volunteers in daily operations and campaign support), the Organize for Democracy paid training program (co-run with Blue Future, mobilizing young activists ages 16-25 in 6-8 week cohorts), and the Student Canvassing & Voter Registration program (paying student canvassers to conduct in-person voter contact in California Congressional districts). These programs collectively powered over 63 million voter contacts since 2019 and supported more than 50 Democratic campaigns across multiple election cycles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Organize for Democracy: A paid training program created in 2021 by Blue Future and Grassroots Democrats HQ that teaches young activists the basic tenets of organizing while helping to turn out young voters in key races across the country.
• GDHQ Fellowship Program
• Student Canvassing Program

Products and services

• GDHQ Fellowship Program Volunteer fellowship engaging 40+ young people nationwide who contribute at least 5 hours weekly during the school year and 10 hours weekly during summer, supporting daily operations, voter outreach, volunteer coordination, and campaign organizing for Grassroots Democrats HQ and partner campaigns.
• Organize for Democracy Paid virtual training program co-created with Blue Future in 2021 that teaches young activists (ages 16-25) organizing principles over 6-8 week cohorts while mobilizing them to turn out young voters in key Democratic races across the country. Fellows receive $75 per week, up to $600 total per cohort.
• Student Canvassing & Voter Registration Paid canvassing and voter registration program that recruits and trains young Democrats to knock on doors and register voters twice monthly in target California Congressional districts (CA-13, CA-22, CA-45, CA-48), with participants receiving a $50 per shift stipend plus gas cards.
• Distributed Phone Banking Services Remote phone banking service that trains and coordinates thousands of volunteers nationwide to make voter contact calls on behalf of partner Democratic campaigns across multiple states and election cycles.
• Voter Texting / Digital Organizing Services Digital organizing service enabling mass voter outreach via text messaging for campaign communications, including 17 million+ texts sent in partnership with the California Democratic Party during the 2024 cycle.
• Postcard and Letter Writing Program Distributed postcard and letter writing program coordinated through GDHQ's network of 70+ affiliate Democratic organizations for voter outreach to targeted voters.

Quantifiable outcome

• Contacted 63 million+ voters since 2019 founding, including 40.7 million in 2024 alone
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and key.

• Harris-Walz CampaigncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Key organizing partner for the Harris-Walz 2024 presidential campaign, helping build the largest distributed calls program in history. GDHQ supported volunteer intake, voter contact, and program scaling for the campaign.
• California Democratic PartycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Major partner in California coordinated campaign providing digital organizing capacity. Partnership enabled thousands of volunteers to send over 17 million texts and make hundreds of thousands of phone calls supporting Democratic campaigns statewide.
• Democratic Party of WisconsincoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Key partner in Wisconsin for voter mobilization operations supporting Supreme Court and down-ballot races. GDHQ poured hundreds of thousands of phone calls into Wisconsin targeting young voters and college students.
• Progressives for Biden / Seniors for BidenkeyStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Official GOTV virtual staging location for both coalitions during 2020 election, coordinating phone banking calls to voters in swing states.
• Georgia Democratic Party (Warnock/Ossoff Runoffs)keyStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnered with Georgia Democratic Party and Senate campaigns during January 2021 runoffs, making 900,000 phone calls, sending 384,000 texts, and writing 97,000 postcards to Georgia voters.
• Blue FuturecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Co-creator of the Organize for Democracy program with Blue Future. Blue Future is a youth organizing organization that partners with GDHQ to run the paid training program teaching young activists organizing fundamentals while mobilizing young voters in key races.
• 70+ Affiliate Democratic OrganizationskeyGTM or Marketing PartnerNetwork of affiliate organizations including Activate America, California Young Democrats, Indivisible groups, Democratic clubs, and progressive organizations. Affiliates gain access to phone banking systems, training resources, headquarters space, and coordination support while amplifying organizational reach.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• Mobilize (mobilize.us): Mobilize is a volunteer management and event platform widely used by Democratic campaigns and progressive groups to power sign-ups, events, and text banking. It is an enabling technology that supports the same volunteer-driven GOTV motion GDHQ orchestrates.
• Center for Voter Information / New Voters Project: Center for Voter Information runs large-scale voter registration and voter contact mail and digital programs. It is an adjacent, vendor-style operator in the voter mobilization space that GDHQ campaigns contract alongside rather than compete with directly.

Direct peers

• NextGen America: NextGen America focuses on young voter mobilization and youth organizing, directly overlapping GDHQ's youth (ages 16-25) and young voter (18-29) segments and competitive for the same youth volunteer base.
• Sister District Project: Sister District Project connects volunteers to state legislative races in targeted districts to flip chambers. The model is closely aligned with GDHQ's district-level volunteer mobilization and remote volunteer coordination approach.
• Swing Left: Swing Left is a grassroots Democratic organization that recruits volunteers and mobilizes voters in swing districts, mirroring GDHQ's distributed volunteer model. Both organizations compete for the same donor and volunteer pool and serve as default organizing partners for Democratic campaigns.
• MoveOn: MoveOn is a large progressive advocacy organization running petitions, voter mobilization, and distributed organizing programs. It is a comparable donor-funded, volunteer-driven political infrastructure org with similar GTM and revenue model.
• Indivisible: Indivisible is a national progressive grassroots network with affiliated local groups that organize voter contact and advocacy. Many of GDHQ's 70+ affiliates are Indivisible chapters, and the two operate in overlapping constituency spaces.

Broad incumbents

• Democratic National Committee (DNC): The DNC is the official national party committee and a counterpart that funds and coordinates voter contact across states. GDHQ operates as a complementary grassroots infrastructure partner rather than a direct competitor, but both share the same Democratic mobilization mandate.
• Organizing for Action (OFA): Organizing for Action is the larger, Obama-aligned progressive organizing and advocacy nonprofit. It offers a much broader portfolio (advocacy, training, civic engagement) than GDHQ but competes for Democratic-aligned donor dollars and volunteer attention.

Emerging players

• Blue Future: Blue Future is the youth organizing organization that co-created the Organize for Democracy program with GDHQ in 2021. While they are an active partner rather than a pure competitor, they run comparable paid youth fellowship and training programs targeting the same 16-25 demographic.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/grassrootsdemhq
• Facebookfacebook.com/grassrootsdemhq
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gdhq

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

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M&A

Investments

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