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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Winning for Women Inc$750,000
Right Vote Inc$750,000
Eighteen Fiftyfour Fund$400,000
Ohio Works Inc$400,000
The Suburban Project$80,000
Center for Campaign Innovation$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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%American Economic Freedom Alliance: $1.0M → 14%Republican Jewish Coalition: $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%American Action Forum: $250k → 14%Heritage Action for America: $1.3M → 14%American Action Forum: $250k → 14%Heritage Action for America: $750k → 14%Building Americas Future: $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
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

WI
OH
PA
VA
DC
LA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -21% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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9
Senate Opportunity Fund

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

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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…

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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.

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12
America Engaged

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Action Forum Inc; 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 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. 26 of the 29 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
8/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetWMC ISSUES MOBILIZATION COUNCIL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCoalition for Prosperous Communities Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCLA INC: $525,000 over 1y, 65% of budget45COMMITTEE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICA NEXT: $500,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAmerican Policy Coalition: $500,000 over 1y, 4.2% 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
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 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

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 American Action Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Action Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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.

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

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