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America First Works Inc

America first works is a non-profit organization supporting key policy initiatives that will work for all citizens in our country and put america first.

$2.1M
Granted FY2022
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Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.

Public Benefit$40MEducation$3.0MCivil Rights$1.9MHealth$994kHuman Services$100k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,110,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICA FIRST WORKS INC$2,110,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The New American Populist: $1.0M → 17%Moms for America: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

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Coalition for American Excellence
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American Policy Coalition

With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.

Public Benefit
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Action 4 Liberty

Promote social welfare by study, research, lobbying pertaining to its field of interest, and education regarding public policy

Civil Rights
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Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
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American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce

The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce has emerged as a firewall against government overreach and a beacon for common sense. We advocate for policies that will extend rather than extinguish the American experiment and ensure that…

Community Improvement
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Conservative Policy Council Fund

To advance policies that promote limited government, support economic growth and business, and seek strong international relationships that enhance American national security and trade objectives.

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Maga Action Inc

Maga action advocated for the america first policy agenda of secure borders, safe communities, low taxes and a strong national defense. it espoused policy positions and encouraged civic engagement in paid public advertising, and made…

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AmFreeAction Committee

American Free Enterprise has created more progress and more prosperity for more people than any other system in all recorded human history. AmFree Action is committed to advocating for public policies that protect and expand American Free…

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Liberty Defense Foundation

The purpose of the Organization is to engage in activities and promote public policies that increase individual freedom and accountable government.

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Defense Priorities Initiative

To inform citizens, thought leaders, and policy makers of the importance of a strong, dynamic military - used more judiciously to protect America's narrowly defined national interests - and promote a realistic grand strategy prioritizing…

Civil Rights
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American Voice

American Voice's mission is to create a more prosperous, fair and free

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Defend Democracy Now

Conduct research and expose abuse of authority and power by government authorities and the deleterious effect such actions have on american democracy.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America First Policy Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The New American Populist. 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

19 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. 19 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/19
Grantees still filing
6/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

America First Action Inc — $22,055,000 · OtherAmerica First Action IncBE COUNTED INC — $2,000,000 · OtherBE COUNTED INCFlorida First — $1,572,000 · OtherLOG CABIN REPUBLICANS — $1,100,000 · OtherNorth Carolina First — $1,096,000 · OtherPennsylvania First — $1,052,000 · Other+8 more — $2,585,000 · Other+8 moreDonors Trust Inc — $4,795,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trus…AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $3,000,000 · EducationAMERICA FIRST WORKS INC — $2,250,100 · Civil RightsCLT HOST 2020 INC — $2,000,000 · Public BenefitThe New American Populist — $1,035,000 · Human ServicesMoms for America Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA — $994,000 · Health
Other$31,460,000Philanthropy$4,795,000Education$3,000,000Civil Rights$2,250,100Public Benefit$2,000,000Human Services$1,135,000Health$994,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDonors Trust Inc — $4,795,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $3,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetAMERICA FIRST WORKS INC — $2,250,100 over 2y, 99% of budgetCLT HOST 2020 INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBE COUNTED INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetFlorida First — $1,572,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetLOG CABIN REPUBLICANS — $1,100,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetNorth Carolina First — $1,096,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetPennsylvania First — $1,052,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetThe New American Populist — $1,035,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA — $994,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetAMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC — $600,000 over 1y, 16% of budget2020 JACKSONVILLE HOST COMMITTEE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN POLICIES INC — $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCONVENTION OF STATES ACTION — $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMoms for America Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSOLDIER STRONG ACCESS — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCenter for Campaign Innovation — $35,000 over 1y, 41% of budget
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.

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.

Donors Trust IncNatl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donors Trust IncVA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 America First Works Inc 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.

2022
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no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24

    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.

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    How do I get to America First Works Inc?

    Find your warmest path to America First Works 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $603k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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