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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Public Benefit$19MCivil Rights$5.6MEnvironment$850kPublic Safety & Disaster$500kHealth$203kEmployment$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 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
RecipientAmount
More Choices America$2,297,500
LA Leadership Fund$100,000
Old Line Leadership PAC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Friends of Brett Linstrom: $170k → 12%Americans Keep Country First: $405k → 14%Georgia Life Alliance Comm: $3.0M → 8%A Public Voice: $800k → 16%Illinois Opportunity Project: $2.0M → 14%Hold the Line PAC: $475k → 19%45 Committee Inc: $3.0M → 6%One Nation: $2.0M → 6%American Principles Project: $525k → 7%American Policy Coalition: $3.3M → 9%More Choices America: $2.3M → 10%Friends of Brett Lindstrom: $33k → 12%Georgia Action Fund: $925k → 14%Affordable Energy Fund PAC: $650k → 6%Club for Growth: $3.0M → 14%Conserv Policy Network: $150k → 6%LA Leadership Fund: $100k → 14%1907 PAC: $25k → 6%Old Line Leadership PAC: $15k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

1
American Prosperity Alliance

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

2
Americans for Tax Reform

American for Tax Reform (ATR) is a national grassroots organization focused on increasing public awareness about the size and regulations of government and rallying support for lower taxes, smaller government and congressional…

3
Iowa Policy Project

The mission of 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. By providing a foundation of fact-based, objective research…

4
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
5
American Advancement

Promote public policies aimed at removing barriers to economic growth and advancing economic opportunity for the American people.

6
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
7
United for Clean Power

United for Clean Power is focused on public policies that build a 21st century energy future.

Environment
8
Foreign Policy for America

Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.

9
American Jobs and Growth Fund

American Jobs and Growth Fund aims to advances policies to change the long-term fiscal trajectory of the United States through responsible spending policies.

10
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…

11
21st Century Policy Institute

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.

12
Independence and Freedom Network

Independence and Freedom Network was founded to promote solutions to pressing public policy problems related to individual liberty and the expansion of personal freedom.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Policy Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Advancing Freedom Inc. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
1/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

45COMMITTEE INC — $3,000,000 · Other45COMMITTEE INCIndividual grant recipient — $3,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGeorgia Life Alliance Committee Inc — $3,000,000 · OtherGeorgia Life Alliance Committee IncMore Choices America — $2,297,500 · OtherMore Choices AmericaBetter Nevada PAC — $1,000,000 · OtherBetter Nevada PACGeorgia Action Fund — $925,000 · OtherGeorgia Action FundAffordable Energy Fund PAC — $650,000 · Other+14 more — $3,115,516 · Other+14 moreAmerican Policy Coalition — $3,250,000 · Public BenefitAmerican Policy CoalitionCLUB FOR GROWTH — $3,000,000 · Public BenefitCLUB FOR GROWTHILLINOIS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT — $2,000,000 · Public BenefitILLINOIS OPPORTUNITY PROJECTONE NATION — $2,000,000 · Public BenefitONE NATIONA PUBLIC VOICE INC — $800,000 · Public BenefitA PUBLIC VOICE INCAmerican Principles Project — $525,000 · Civil RightsADVANCING FREEDOM INC — $390,000 · Civil Rights
Other$16,988,016Public Benefit$11,050,000Civil Rights$915,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican Policy Coalition — $3,250,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCLUB FOR GROWTH — $3,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGeorgia Life Alliance Committee Inc — $3,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetILLINOIS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT — $2,000,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetONE NATION — $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetA PUBLIC VOICE INC — $800,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAmerican Principles Project — $525,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSafe Streets Safe Communities — $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budget
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 Policy Coalition
  • Who funds CLUB FOR GROWTH
  • Who funds 45COMMITTEE INC
  • Who funds Georgia Life Alliance Committee Inc
  • Who funds ILLINOIS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT
  • Who funds ONE NATION
  • Who funds A PUBLIC VOICE INC
  • Who funds American Principles Project
  • Who funds Safe Streets Safe Communities
  • Who funds ADVANCING FREEDOM INC

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 AdvancementMD28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover 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 · American Jobs and Growth Fund · Prosperity Alliance Inc · Citizens for a Working America Inc · Safe Streets Safe Communities

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 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.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    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, FY2024

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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