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Alliance for Market Solutions Inc

The alliance for market solutions, inc.

$50k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$392kCommunity Improvement$328kPublic Benefit$213kEnvironment$160k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $50k → 9%TAX POLICY ADVISERS LLC: $25k → 16%R STREET INSTITUTE: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 13%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 13%THE EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $50k → 16%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $75k → 6%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $27k → 19%FTI CONSULTING INC: $139k → 11%TAX POLICY ADVISERS LLC: $25k → 16%TAX FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $50k → 16%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $27k → 6%INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: $10k → 14%AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC: $63k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
IN
PA
WV
VA
MD
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$804k · 7 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +123% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$804k
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
+43%

Still filing today

57%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementReligionPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GS
    Georgia State University Foundation Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $162k · revenue +108%
  • EE
    Evangelical Environmental Network
    3× · 2018–2021 · $150k · revenue +166%
  • IT
    Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • RS
    R STREET INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +43%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $63k · revenue +16%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +67%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
3
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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4
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
5
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
6
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
7
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Action Forum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Evangelical Environmental Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FTI CONSULTING INC: $278,000 · OtherFTI CONSULTING INCEvangelical Environmental Network: $150,000 · OtherEvangelical Environmental NetworkGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $101,594 · OtherGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITYTAX POLICY ADVISERS LLC: $50,000 · OtherTAX POLICY ADVISERS LLCGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $39,679 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $27,232 · OtherGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $161,973 · EducationGeorgia State University Found…R STREET INSTITUTE: $75,000 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA …WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,954 · EducationAMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC: $62,500 · Social ScienceInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTAX FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitTHE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$646,505Education$298,927Social Science$62,500Community Improvement$50,000Public Benefit$25,000Religion$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $161,973 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEvangelical Environmental Network: $150,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,954 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William & Flora H…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alliance for Market Solutions Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance for Market Solutions Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Alliance for Market Solutions Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Alliance for Market Solutions Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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