· Public charity
Alliance Defending Freedom
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM exists to keep the door open for the gospel by advancing every person's god-given right to live and speak the truth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $10,491,044 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,927,970 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,436,926 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $532k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $307k
- $250k+2 grants · $9.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL | $8,715,495 |
| ADF ACTION | $900,000 |
| ENVISAGE LAW | $96,852 |
| CONSOVOY MCCARTHY PLLC | $80,219 |
| LIBERTY COUNSEL | $75,000 |
| BOYDEN GRAY PLLC | $55,000 |
| ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER | $47,800 |
| DILLON PLLC | $31,833 |
| SIMMS SHOWERS LLP | $31,637 |
| FOX ROTHSCHILD LLP | $30,351 |
| BODANZA & BODANZA LAW OFFICE | $30,000 |
| HOSTETTER LAW GROUP LLP | $28,000 |
| WADLEIGH STARR & PETERS PLLC | $27,726 |
| BURKE LAW GROUP | $25,066 |
| CHILD & PARENTAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AAADF ACTION3× · 2023–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +386% · 100% of their budget
- ALAmerican Liberties Institute Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $664k · revenue +354% · 46% of their budget
- FCFIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY3× · 2017–2019 · $380k · revenue +399%
Funded once
- CLCharis Lex PCone grant, 2021 · $160k
- NWNATHAN W KELLUMone grant, 2017 · $62k
- IFINSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INCone grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
AUL is an organization that advances the human right to life in culture, law, and policy.
The protection of human and religious rights and liberties and the education of the public on such rights and liberties.
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
Organized for religious purposes to promote the gospel of jesus christ by protecting, defending and advocating religious civil liberties
First liberty institute provides pro bono legal services to advance and defend religious liberty for individuals, churches, and other ministries and organizations.
Dissemination of pro-life information
Alliance defending freedom exists to keep the door open for the gospel by advancing every person's god-given right to live and speak the truth. we contend for the truth in law, policy, and the public square, and equip the alliance to do…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The Organization's members are dedicated to protecting the rights of faculty members at colleges and universities to speak, instruct, and publish without fear of sanction or punishment.
The center for american liberty leads the fight for free speech and civil liberties across the country. by leveraging its nationwide network of litigators, the center for american liberty zealously advocates on behalf of individuals whose…
Liberty Counsel Actions mission is to advance religious freedom the sanctity of human life the family responsible government national security and support for Israel through education and advocacy on the national state and local levels.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Museum of American Religion Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 89% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 127 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ADF ACTION ↗
- Who funds American Liberties Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
- Who funds CHILD & PARENTAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Foundation of Virginia ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ROADS OF SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INDIANA FAMILY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FREEDOM LAW CENTER INC DBA AFLC % CINDY PAGE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Catholic Association Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Family Leader Foundation Inc · USATransform · The 85 Fund · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Strake Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alliance Defending Freedom funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.