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· Public charity
American Exceptionalism Institute
The organization engaged in public communications and issue education activities related to national security, the protection of life, and tax and spending issues.
$2.4M
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
3
Communities
$2.3M
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of American Exceptionalism Institute’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
growth
2022
directpolicy choices
2023
americansvaluesconserv policyconservativefree marketgrowtheducating
2024
leadership
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.3M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- More Choices America$2,297,500
- LA Leadership Fund$100,000
- Old Line Leadership PAC$15,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 45% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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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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Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
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3
Iowa Policy Project
The mission of the Iowa Policy Project is to promote public policy that fosters economic opportunity while safeguarding the health and well-being of Iowa's people and the environment.
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4
American Exceptionalism Institute
The organization engaged in public communications and issue education activities related to national security, the protection of life, and tax and spending issues.
Community Improvement
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Institute for Policy Innovation
It is the mission of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) to provide education, research, analysis and recommendations to policy makers, opinion leaders and the American people designed to help solve public policy problems through…
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United States Public Policy Council
To engage in research, education and public awareness campaigns relating to the national security, intelligence and foreign and national policy of the United States of America, and freedom in America and the World. Also to engage in those…
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7
California Policy Group
The purpose of the organization is to provide objective, nonpartisan and balanced research analysis and commentary regarding legislation important to the California economy.
Public Benefit
8
Institute for Public Accuracy
The Institute for Public Accuracy reaches millions of Americans by arranging radio, TV, print and multimedia interviews for progressive policy analysts, highlighting key issues beneath the surface of the news.
Arts & Culture
9
Center for Law and Policy
The Center for Law and Policy (CLP) is a public policy organization dedicated to promoting and defending liberty, equality before the law, and the sovereignty of the states. To this end, CLP promotes open discussion with state attorneys…
Arts & Culture
10
American Advancement
Promote public policies aimed at removing barriers to economic growth and advancing economic opportunity for the American people.
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11
National Popular Vote
To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States
Public Benefit
12
American Principles Project Foundation
Our mission is to educate the public about America's founding principles.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Policy Coalition and the most unlike its peers is 45COMMITTEE Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$18,988,016Public Benefit$9,050,000Civil Rights$915,000
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.
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.
American AdvancementMD24.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: American Advancement · American Policy Coalition · A Public Voice Inc · The Revitalization Project · Prosperity Alliance Inc · American Jobs and Growth Fund · Citizens for a Working America Inc
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 organisation American Exceptionalism Institute 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Georgia Life Alliance Comm.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 472788469 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Georgia Life Alliance Comm, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to American Exceptionalism Institute?
Find your warmest path to American Exceptionalism Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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