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· Public charity

American Economic Freedom Alliance Inc

Advocate for economic freedom

$800k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Public Benefit$4.4MInternational$500kEmployment$481kCivil Rights$480kEnvironment$200kYouth Development$50k
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $700k
$700,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN PROSPERITY ALLIANCE$700,000
STAND FOR AMERICA$100,000
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%STAND FOR AMERICA: $100k → 17%BUILDING A BETTER AMERICA: $100k → 14%CONSERVATIVES FOR BETTER LEADERSHIP: $55k → 16%CONSERVATIVES WITH COURAGE: $1.2M → 14%BETTER JOBS COALITION: $481k → 7%ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM: $100k → 16%AMERICANS FOR LIMITED GOVERNMENT: $1.1M → 6%60 PLUS ASSOCIATION: $480k → 9%AMERICAN ENERGY ACTION: $75k → 14%AMERICAN PROSPERITY ALLIANCE: $700k → 6%RIGHT DIRECTION AMERICA: $120k → 9%STAND FOR AMERICA: $100k → 14%45 COMMITTEE INC: $100k → 6%THE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INC: $90k → 9%STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AMERICAN COUNCIL ON RENEWABLE ENERGY: $75k → 14%TRADE WORKS FOR AMERICA: $500k → 14%AMERICAN COUNCIL ON RENEWABLE ENERGY: $50k → 14%STATE SOLUTIONS INC: $50k → 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

NY
IN
CO
VA
TN
DC
AL
GA
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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$945k · 4 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$945k
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
-28%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22
Public BenefitCivil RightsScience & TechEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • T6
    THE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $570k · revenue +66% · 50% of their budget
  • AC
    American Council On Renewable Energy
    2× · 2020–2021 · $125k · revenue +80%
  • TB
    THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CW
    CONSERVATIVES WITH COURAGE
    one grant, 2020 · $1.2M
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR LIMITED GOVERNMENT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue -60% · 34% of their budget
  • TW
    TRADE WORKS FOR AMERICA
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue -97%
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
Great America Coalition

To educate the public on policy issues.

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2
American Prosperity Alliance

American Prosperity Alliances mission is to advocate for legislative and regulatory policies that advance economic prosperity in America.

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3
Securing American Greatness Inc

The organization engaged in paid public advertising to espouse its positions on border security, crime, national defense, economic and tax issues. the organization also made grants to mission-aligned organizations.

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4
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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5
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
6
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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7
Clean Energy for America Inc

Clean Energy for Americas purpose is to engage with clean energy workers and advance the clean energy movement. CE4A highlights the feasibility and positive impact of a clean energy economy, educates policymakers and the general public on…

Environment
8
Stronger America Inc

Stronger America is dedicated to promoting good government and advancing issues that encourage American exceptionalism and strength by educating people on the importance of limited government fiscal conservatism and family values.

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9
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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10
Coalition for American Excellence
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11
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
12
America2100

America 2100 advocates for policies that promote better protections for American companies and industries by educating Americans on the policy challenges we face as a country and proposing common sense solutions to those challenges.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing American Freedom Inc; the most unlike its peers is Right Direction America. 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 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. 19 of the 21 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONSERVATIVES WITH COURAGE: $1,200,000 · OtherCONSERVATIVES WITH COURAGETHE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INC: $570,350 · OtherTHE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INCTRADE WORKS FOR AMERICA: $500,000 · OtherTRADE WORKS FOR AMERICABETTER JOBS COALITION: $481,000 · OtherBETTER JOBS COALITIONRIGHT DIRECTION AMERICA: $120,000 · Other+5 more: $416,500 · Other+5 moreAMERICANS FOR LIMITED GOVERNMENT INC: $1,067,000 · Civil RightsAMERICANS FOR LIMITED GO…BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE: $250,000 · Civil RightsBUILDING AMERICA'S FUTUR…Prosperity Alliance Inc: $700,000 · Public BenefitProsperity Allia…MIDDLE AMERICA PROJECT INC: $132,600 · Public BenefitMIDDLE AMERICA P…STATE SOLUTIONS INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitSTATE SOLUTIONS …+1 more: $25,000 · Public BenefitSTAND FOR AMERICA INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican Council On Renewable Energy: $125,000 · Science & TechADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ENERGY ACTION: $75,000 · EnvironmentTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $50,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,287,850Civil Rights$1,317,000Public Benefit$907,600Community Improvement$200,000Science & Tech$125,000International$100,000Environment$75,000Youth Development$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICANS FOR LIMITED GOVERNMENT INC: $1,067,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetProsperity Alliance Inc: $700,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INC: $570,350 over 2y, 50% of budgetBETTER JOBS COALITION: $481,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetBUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE: $250,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSTAND FOR AMERICA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMIDDLE AMERICA PROJECT INC: $132,600 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetAmerican Council On Renewable Energy: $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRIGHT DIRECTION AMERICA: $120,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGlenn Youngkin Inaugural Committee: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget45COMMITTEE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBUILDING A BETTER AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAMERICAN ENERGY ACTION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFairMapsVirginia: $61,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSTATE SOLUTIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 FundPharmaceutical Resear…
The Concord FundVA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Concord Fund · 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 Economic Freedom Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Economic Freedom Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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.
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Find your warmest path to American Economic Freedom Alliance 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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