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American Edge at a glance

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American Edge

The organization is established primarily to further the common good and general welfare of u.s.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER OF INNOVATION & FREE ENTERPRISE$20,000
ARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$15,000
CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM$15,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR INNOVATION & EMPOWERMENT$10,000
WOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY$10,000
LATINO COALITION$10,000
NATIONAL PUERTO RICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$10,000
HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
TECNA$10,000
US MINORITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC$10,000
MADISON SERVICES GROUP INC$10,000
TRADE ALLIANCE TO PROMOTE PROSPERITY$10,000
SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS NATIONAL$10,000
NATIONAL BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FINANCIAL SERVICES INNOVATION COALITION: $35k → 14%FINANCIAL SERVICES INNOVATION COALITION: $8k → 14%MARKET INSTITUTE: $8k → 6%MARKET INSTITUTE: $8k → 6%MARKET INSTITUTE: $8k → 6%FINANCIAL SERVICES INNOVATION COALITION: $8k → 14%FINANCIAL SERVICES INNOVATION COALITION: $8k → 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

MN
PA
CA
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$753k · 18 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$753k
$434k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalEmploymentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
    5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +18%
  • SB
    SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL
    4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +118%
  • FS
    Financial Services Innovation Coalition FSIC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +217%

Funded once

  • AC
    ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +62%
  • SR
    Smarter Regulation
    one grant, 2023 · $126k · 53% of their budget
  • US
    UNITED STATES PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
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
National Center for Apec

Ncapec is the only u.s. business association focused exclusively on facilitating american private sector input to the apec process. programs typically feature discussions between business, government and academia on key trade and economic…

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2
Competition & Innovation Institute
Public Benefit
3
American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce

The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce has emerged as a firewall against government overreach and a beacon for common sense. We advocate for policies that will extend rather than extinguish the American experiment and ensure that…

Community Improvement
4
The Berkeley Policy Institute Inc
Social Science
5
Technology Policy Institute
International
6
Center for International Private Enterprise Inc

The center for international private enterprise (cipe) is a non-profit global organization that works to strengthen democracy and build competitive, resilient markets in many of the world's most challenging environments. working alongside…

International
7
Semiconductor Industry Association

The semiconductor industry association (sia) is the voice of the semiconductor industry, one of america's top export industries and a key driver of america's economic strength, national security, and global competitiveness. (continued on…

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8
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
9
American Business Immigration Coalition

To promote sensible immigration reform that supports the economy of the united states, provides american companies with both the high-skilled and low-skilled talent they need, and allows the integration of immigrants into our economy as…

Public Benefit
10
Climate Parliament Inc

Researching policy ideas on climate and clean energy in India, engaging legislators and business leaders to discuss those ideas.

International
11
Latin American Chamber of Commerce

To foster relationships between hispanic and non-hispanic business, associations, individuals and goverment to create new business opportunities

Community Improvement
12
Us China Business Council

The united states china business council's primary purpose is to represent american companies that do business in china and expand the us-china commercial relationship to the benefit of its membership and the us economy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education; the most unlike its peers is Market Institute Llc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 26 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Smarter Regulation: $126,000 · OtherSmarter RegulationSMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL: $60,000 · OtherSMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCILARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY: $60,000 · OtherARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRYHispanic Heritage Foundation: $50,000 · OtherHispanic Heritage FoundationSER Jobs Progress National Inc: $50,000 · OtherSER Jobs Progress National IncNational Black Chamber of Commerce Inc: $50,000 · OtherNational Black Chamber of Commerce IncUNITED STATES PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION: $40,000 · OtherUNITED STATES PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE E…MADISON SERVICES GROUP INC: $35,000 · OtherMADISON SERVICES GROUP INCCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $32,500 · OtherCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTEUS PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $27,500 · Other+4 more: $45,000 · Other+4 moreATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $200,000 · InternationalATLANTIC COUNCIL O…TRADE ALLIANCE TO PROTECT PROSPERITY: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTRADE ALLIANCE…Partnership for Innovation and Empowerment: $42,500 · Community ImprovementPartnership fo…NATIONAL PUERTO RICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $40,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL PUERT…Technology Councils of North America: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTechnology Cou…Financial Services Innovation Coalition FSIC: $57,500 · Human ServicesMARKET INSTITUTE LLC: $22,500 · Human ServicesAMERICANS FOR A BALANCED BUDGET INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM: $75,000 · Public BenefitTHE LEXINGTON INSTITUTE: $25,000 · EducationTHE LATINO COALITION FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Employment
Other$576,000International$200,000Community Improvement$152,500Human Services$80,000Civil Rights$80,000Public Benefit$75,000Education$25,000Employment$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSmarter Regulation: $126,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM: $75,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL: $60,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFinancial Services Innovation Coalition FSIC: $57,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetTRADE ALLIANCE TO PROTECT PROSPERITY: $50,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetAMERICANS FOR A BALANCED BUDGET INC: $50,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetHispanic Heritage Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSER Jobs Progress National Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Black Chamber of Commerce Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPartnership for Innovation and Empowerment: $42,500 over 5y, 25% of budgetUNITED STATES PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PUERTO RICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $40,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $32,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUS PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $27,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE LEXINGTON INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMARKET INSTITUTE LLC: $22,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTechnology Councils of North America: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE LATINO COALITION FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 22% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to American Edge?

    Find your warmest path to American Edge 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 26 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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