· Public charity
American Advancement
Promote public policies aimed at removing barriers to economic growth and advancing economic opportunity for the American people.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $511k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Keystone Renewal PAC | $1,000,000 |
| Win it Back PAC | $950,000 |
| Affordable Energy Fund PAC | $750,000 |
| American Jobs and Growth | $300,000 |
| Safe Streets Safe Comm | $150,000 |
| Conservative Family Alliance | $140,000 |
| Teachers First LLC | $100,000 |
| Families for a Strong St Joe | $70,500 |
| Defend US PAC | $50,000 |
| A Public Voice | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AEAmerican Exceptionalism Institute3× · 2020–2023 · $6.3M · revenue -78% · 47% of their budget
- DUDefend US PAC2× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M
- SSSafe Streets Safe Communities2× · 2022–2024 · $650k · revenue -89%
Funded once
- PAProsperity Alliance Incone grant, 2022 · $2.1M · revenue -49% · 61% of their budget
- APAmerican Policy Coalitionone grant, 2022 · $2.1M · revenue -58% · 32% of their budget
- AFAmericans for Secure Electone grant, 2022 · $1.4M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
American Jobs and Security was formed to promote the idea of peace and prosperity through strong security policies.
Promote public policies aimed at removing barriers to economic growth and advancing economic opportunity for the American people.
To Conduct research and educate the public about various policy issues across the United States.
Economic Future Fund aims to build a stronger, more vibrant economy for the American people through innovative public policies and free market solutions.
Independence and Freedom Network was founded to promote solutions to pressing public policy problems related to individual liberty and the expansion of personal freedom.
United for Clean Power is focused on public policies that build a 21st century energy future.
American Prosperity Alliances mission is to advocate for legislative and regulatory policies that advance economic prosperity in America.
To promote sound economic policy: 1 By engaging in citizen led initiative and referendum efforts, 2 By participating in the public policy arena, and 3 By providing educational services to the general public.
To promote the common good and general welfare through education and legislative participation on public matters that significantly impact the economy, job growth and retention, employment and that are designed to promote fiscal…
21st Century Policy Institute engages in public policy advocacy including advocacy to sustain a dialog around the critical importance of Americas economic and military strength and the related implications both domestically and abroad.
To create, encourage, and promote center right policies based on the principles of freedom, limited government, American exceptionalism, and strong policies in the state of MN, and to engage in any lawful act or activity for which…
American Voice's mission is to create a more prosperous, fair and free
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Policy Coalition and the most unlike its peers is One Nation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds American Exceptionalism Institute ↗
- Who funds Prosperity Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds American Policy Coalition ↗
- Who funds Safe Streets Safe Communities ↗
- Who funds Defend US Inc ↗
- Who funds American Jobs and Growth Fund ↗
- Who funds ONE NATION ↗
- Who funds A PUBLIC VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds American Action Network Inc ↗
- Who funds STATE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Revitalization Project ↗
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.
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
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 Advancement 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.
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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