Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersAlso receives grants — funding profile →
Plinth

· Public charity

American Action Network Inc

The American Action Network creates, encourages and promotes center-right policies based on the principles of freedom, limited government, American exceptionalism and strong national security.

$36M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$28M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Public Benefit$146MCivil Rights$6.3MHealth$2.2MEmployment$400kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
  • $250k+9 grants · $36M
$750,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Congressional Leadership Fund$27,780,000
Common Sense Leadership Fund$2,450,000
Republican Jewish Coalition$1,300,000
Republican Main Street Partnership$1,200,000
WMC Issues Mobilization Council$1,000,000
Right Vote Inc$750,000
Winning for Women Inc$750,000
Ohio Works Inc$400,000
Eighteen Fiftyfour Fund$400,000
The Suburban Project$80,000
Center for Campaign Innovation$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YRs Run Inc: $100k → 6%Eighteen Fiftyfour Fund: $400k → 16%Main Street Advocacy: $2.3M → 14%Governing Majority Education Fund: $150k → 13%WMC Issues Mobilization Council: $1.0M → 10%Ohio Works Inc: $400k → 15%American Prosperity Alliance: $5.5M → 6%Common Sense Leadership Fund: $2.5M → 7%Fair Lines America Inc: $1.6M → 9%America Next Inc: $500k → 19%Republican Main Street Partnership: $1.6M → 14%America First Policies Inc: $1.0M → 6%AR2: $100k → 7%American Policy Coalition: $500k → 9%Republican Main Street Partnership: $1.2M → 14%45 Committee Inc: $500k → 6%Coalition to Protect American Worke: $925k → 9%Main Street Advocacy: $1.0M → 14%Coalition for Prosperous Communitie: $1.0M → 14%Main Street Advocacy Fund: $75k → 14%Winning for Women Inc: $820k → 14%Winning for Women Inc: $750k → 14%Winning for Women Inc: $750k → 14%American Economic Freedom Alliance: $425k → 14%Republican Jewish Coalition: $1.3M → 14%Republican Jewish Coalition: $1.3M → 14%American Economic Freedom Alliance: $1.2M → 14%Republican Jewish Coalition: $1.1M → 14%Republican Jewish Coalition: $1.0M → 14%American Economic Freedom Alliance: $1.0M → 14%Right Vote Inc: $750k → 14%Right Vote Inc: $750k → 14%Congressional Leadership Fund: $27.8M → 14%Congressional Leadership Fund: $24.6M → 14%Congressional Leadership Fund: $23.5M → 14%Congressional Leadership Fund: $20.0M → 14%Congressional Leadership Fund: $12.2M → 14%American Action Forum: $450k → 14%American Action Forum: $300k → 14%Building Americas Future: $250k → 14%Heritage Action for America: $1.3M → 14%American Action Forum: $250k → 14%Heritage Action for America: $750k → 14%American Action Forum: $250k → 14%The Suburban Project: $80k → 14%Heritage Action for America: $200k → 14%N2 America: $90k → 14%CLA Inc: $525k → 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

WI
OH
PA
VA
DC
LA
TX
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$143M · 14 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$143M
$9.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-21%

Still filing today

86%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceOther

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

  • RJ
    REPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +160%
  • WF
    WINNING FOR WOMEN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +153% · 54% of their budget
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • AP
    American Prosperity Alliancegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5.5M · revenue ×24
  • AF
    AMERICA FIRST WORKS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -91%
  • CF
    Coalition for Prosperous Communities Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M

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

04Your 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.

1
Election Watch Inc

Research analyze publish information to public on elections election systems laws and campaign financing.

Civil Rights
2
America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement
3
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.

—
4
Common Sense Policy Institute

The Common Sense Policy Institute works to inform the American public of dysfunction in the government by identifying government waste, fraud, and abuse through engaging in nonpartisan analysis, study, and research relating to government…

Public Benefit
5
Working for America Policy Inc

To advance pro-growth, pro-worker and pro-american public policy through rigorous policy research, advocacy, and public awareness campaigns.

—
6
Citizen Awareness Project Inc

Citizen Awareness Project exists to educate citizens and public officials on issues of public policy and to give them the tools necessary to make a difference in their community on issues affecting the public at large. Specifically, it…

Civil Rights
7
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

—
8
Colorado Rising State Action

The organization is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting government over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…

—
9
Senate Opportunity Fund

Advance Conservative Solutions Through Research And Communication On Public Policy Issues.

—
10
Conservative Majority Project

Conservative Majority Project is established primarily to further the common good and general welfare of the citizens of the United States within the meaning of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code, including by advancing…

—
11
Policies Solutions and Action for America

To advance social welfare by identifying social problems and advancing solutions through public policies that unite the Nation and defend capitalism, freedom, and liberty.

—
12
America Engaged

America Engaged is a public policy organization, dedicated to promoting the Constitution of the United States and its core structural features.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Action Forum Inc and the most unlike its peers is YRs Run Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 29 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
9/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Congressional Leadership Fund — $108,095,000 · OtherCongressional Leadership FundCOMMON SENSE LEADERSHIP FUND INC — $8,525,000 · OtherCOMMON SENSE LEADERSHIP FUND INCAmerican Prosperity Alliance — $5,500,000 · OtherREPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION — $4,700,000 · Other+17 more — $13,990,000 · Other+17 moreFAIR LINES AMERICA INC — $4,150,000 · Community ImprovementREPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP — $2,800,000 · Public BenefitAmerican Policy Coalition — $500,000 · Public BenefitHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA — $2,235,875 · HealthAMERICA NEXT — $500,000 · HealthRight Vote Inc — $1,500,000 · Civil RightsBUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE — $1,175,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC — $1,250,000 · Social Science
Other$140,810,000Community Improvement$4,150,000Public Benefit$3,300,000Health$2,735,875Civil Rights$2,675,000Social Science$1,250,000

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 budgetCOMMON SENSE LEADERSHIP FUND INC — $8,525,000 over 4y, 65% of budgetREPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION — $4,700,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetFAIR LINES AMERICA INC — $4,150,000 over 4y, 77% of budgetMAIN STREET ADVOCACY FUND — $3,350,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetREPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP — $2,800,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetAMERICAN ECONOMIC FREEDOM ALLIANCE INC — $2,625,000 over 3y, 63% of budgetWINNING FOR WOMEN INC — $2,320,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA — $2,235,875 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetRight Vote Inc — $1,500,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC — $1,250,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetBUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE — $1,175,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCoalition for Prosperous Communities Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCLA INC — $525,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetAMERICA NEXT — $500,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAmerican Policy Coalition — $500,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budget45COMMITTEE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCenter for Campaign Innovation — $250,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetGOVERNING MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND — $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetAR2 INC — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetN2 AMERICA INC — $90,000 over 1y, 60% 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.

The Concord FundLeon Rachel CorpArdleigh Impact CorpEnding Spending IncThe Business Roundtab…Pharmaceutical Resear…
The Concord FundVA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Concord Fund · Leon Rachel Corp · Ardleigh Impact Corp · Ending Spending Inc · The Business Roundtable Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

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 American Action Network 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%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
    1get 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.

    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home
    State money flows
    the interactive map of money crossing state lines