How much does American Edge give?

American Edge reported 14 grants totaling $160,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does American Edge fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (40%), International (19%), Civil Rights (13%).

Who are American Edge's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Atlantic Council of the United States Inc ($200k), Smarter Regulation ($126k), Center for Individual Freedom ($75k).

Does American Edge fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Edge?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.

Foundation Dossiers

Virginia · Public charity

American Edge

The organization is established primarily to further the common good and general welfare of u.s. Citizens by engaging in education and advocacy efforts to promote the benefits of american technology.

$160k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Grants FY2025: 18
Organizations funded FY2024: 17%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $20,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 18; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 9
Total assets, FY2025: $4.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations American Edge funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	14	$160k	14%
FY2024	18	$248k	17%
FY2023	18	$314k	22%
FY2022	11	$108k	36%
FY2021	8	$278k	63%
FY2020	8	$100k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$423kInternational$200kCivil Rights$138kEnvironment$126kPublic Benefit$48kHuman Services$48kEmployment$40kEducation$25k

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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Atlantic Council of the United States Inc	$200,000	1	0%
Smarter Regulation	$126,000	1	53%
Center for Individual Freedom	$75,000	5	1%
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council	$60,000	4	2%
Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry	$60,000	4	0%
Financial Services Innovation Coalition FSIC	$57,500	4	17%
Trade Alliance to Protect Prosperity	$50,000	5	13%
Americans for a Balanced Budget Inc	$50,000	4	10%
Hispanic Heritage Foundation	$50,000	5	0%
SER Jobs Progress National Inc	$50,000	5	0%

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All grantees of American Edge by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Atlantic Council of the United States Inc	$200,000	1	0%
Smarter Regulation	$126,000	1	53%
Center for Individual Freedom	$75,000	5	1%
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council	$60,000	4	2%
Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry	$60,000	4	0%
Financial Services Innovation Coalition FSIC	$57,500	4	17%
Trade Alliance to Protect Prosperity	$50,000	5	13%
Americans for a Balanced Budget Inc	$50,000	4	10%
Hispanic Heritage Foundation	$50,000	5	0%
SER Jobs Progress National Inc	$50,000	5	0%
National Black Chamber of Commerce Inc	$50,000	5	1%
Partnership for Innovation and Empowerment	$42,500	5	25%
United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education	$40,000	1	1%
National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce	$40,000	4	5%
Madison Services Group Inc	$35,000	4	n/a
Competitive Enterprise Institute	$32,500	1	0%
Women Impacting Public Policy Inc	$30,000	3	1%
US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce	$27,500	3	11%
The Lexington Institute	$25,000	1	2%
Market Institute LLC	$22,500	3	1%
Technology Councils of North America	$20,000	2	2%
The Latino Coalition Foundation	$17,500	2	22%
US Minority Chamber of Commerce	$15,000	2	n/a
US Minority Chamber of Congress Fdtn	$10,000	1	n/a
US Minority Chamber of Commerce Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
The Latino Coalition Inc	$10,000	1	n/a

American Edge supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About American Edge

How much does American Edge give?: American Edge reported 14 grants totaling $160,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does American Edge fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (40%), International (19%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are American Edge's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Atlantic Council of the United States Inc ($200k), Smarter Regulation ($126k), Center for Individual Freedom ($75k).
Does American Edge fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Edge?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is American Edge based?: American Edge is based in VA.