Maryland · Public charity
American Advancement
Promote public policies aimed at removing barriers to economic growth and advancing economic opportunity for the American people.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $66k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations American Advancement funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $3.5M | 70% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $2.3M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $15M | 84% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $731k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $2.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Exceptionalism Institute | $6,250,000 | 3 | 47% |
| Prosperity Alliance Inc | $2,150,000 | 1 | 61% |
| American Policy Coalition | $2,100,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Defend US PAC | $1,600,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Americans for Secure Elect | $1,417,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Reboot Louisiana | $1,250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keystone Renewal PAC | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Win it Back PAC | $950,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Affordable Energy Fund PAC | $750,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Safe Streets Safe Communities | $650,000 | 2 | 10% |
Show all 38 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Exceptionalism Institute | $6,250,000 | 3 | 47% |
| Prosperity Alliance Inc | $2,150,000 | 1 | 61% |
| American Policy Coalition | $2,100,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Defend US PAC | $1,600,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Americans for Secure Elect | $1,417,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Reboot Louisiana | $1,250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keystone Renewal PAC | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Win it Back PAC | $950,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Affordable Energy Fund PAC | $750,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Safe Streets Safe Communities | $650,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Better Nevada PAC | $550,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Security is Strength LLC | $525,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Conservatives for our Future | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carolina Senate Fund | $415,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Defend US Inc | $333,237 | 1 | 40% |
| Stronger Nevada PAC | $325,000 | 1 | n/a |
| LA Leadership Fund | $320,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Jobs and Growth Fund | $300,000 | 1 | 3% |
| American Jobs and Growth | $275,000 | 2 | n/a |
| One Nation | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Conservative Policy Project | $244,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Georgia Action Fund | $217,245 | 1 | n/a |
| A Public Voice Inc | $200,740 | 3 | 3% |
| American Action Network Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| In Florida We Trust | $170,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohioians for Parent Choice | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Conservative Family Alliance | $140,000 | 1 | n/a |
| State Solutions Inc | $129,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Revitalization Project | $100,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Teachers First LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American United for Values | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Families for a Strong St Joe | $70,500 | 1 | n/a |
| NW Ohio Freedom PAC | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| True Michigan | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas First | $42,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Coalition to Secure Elections | $24,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Citizens Better Blue Ridge | $18,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Grit PAC | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
American Advancement supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Prosperity Alliance Inc · American Policy Coalition · A Public Voice Inc · American Exceptionalism Institute · American Jobs and Security · American Jobs and Growth Fund · Safe Streets Safe Communities · The Revitalization Project · Government Integrity Fund · Citizens for a Working America Inc · Defend US Inc · 55 Green Meadows
How this is measured
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About American Advancement
- How much does American Advancement give?
- American Advancement reported 10 grants totaling $3,554,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does American Advancement fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (63%), Civil Rights (19%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are American Advancement's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American Exceptionalism Institute ($6.3M), Prosperity Alliance Inc ($2.1M), American Policy Coalition ($2.1M).
- Does American Advancement fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Advancement?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prosperity Alliance Inc, American Policy Coalition, A Public Voice Inc.
- Where is American Advancement based?
- American Advancement is based in MD.
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