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American Exceptionalism Institute at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$19MCivil Rights$5.6MEnvironment$850kPublic Safety & Disaster$500kHealth$203kEmployment$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$95,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
More Choices America$800,000
Defend US PAC$529,000
Americans United for Values$250,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
Hope in Action PAC$95,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Stand for US PAC$45,000
Conservative Policy Project$22,500
Oklahoma Grassroots Conserv$20,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Friends of Brett Linstrom: $170k → 12%Stand for US PAC: $45k → 10%Americans Keep Country First: $405k → 14%Texans for Freedom: $50k → 5%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%Hope in Action PAC: $95k → 24%Friends of Brett Lindstrom: $33k → 12%Georgia Action Fund: $925k → 14%Affordable Energy Fund PAC: $650k → 6%Advancing America First: $100k → 9%More Choices America: $800k → 10%Club for Growth: $3.0M → 14%Conserv Policy Network: $150k → 6%LA Leadership Fund: $100k → 14%1907 PAC: $25k → 6%Oklahoma Grassroots Conserv: $20k → 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
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

IL
NV
WY
OH
NE
VA
DC
OK
MS
GA
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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 3 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
25

Total granted

$3.4M
$26M

Still filing today

0%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitCivil RightsOther
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

  • MC
    More Choices America
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3.1M
  • FO
    Friends of Brett Linstrom
    2× · 2022–2023 · $203k
  • CP
    Conservative Policy Project
    2× · 2023–2025 · $73k

Funded once

  • AP
    American Policy Coalition
    one grant, 2023 · $3.3M · revenue -70% · 27% of their budget
  • GL
    Georgia Life Alliance Committee Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue -100% · 100% of their budget
  • 4I
    45COMMITTEE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue +25%
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
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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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…

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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…

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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.

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6
United for Clean Power

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

Environment
7
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
8
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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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.

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10
Foreign Policy for America

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

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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.

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12
Great America Coalition

To educate the public on policy issues.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Policy Coalition; 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 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. 10 of the 35 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
1/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

More Choices America: $3,097,500 · OtherMore Choices AmericaGeorgia Life Alliance Committee Inc: $3,000,000 · OtherGeorgia Life Alliance Committee Inc45COMMITTEE INC: $3,000,000 · Other45COMMITTEE INCIndividual grant recipient: $3,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBetter Nevada PAC: $1,000,000 · OtherGeorgia Action Fund: $925,000 · OtherAffordable Energy Fund PAC: $650,000 · Other+21 more: $4,227,016 · Other+21 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$18,899,516Public Benefit$11,050,000Civil Rights$915,000

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 budgetAmerican Policy Coalition: $3,250,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetGeorgia Life Alliance Committee Inc: $3,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetCLUB FOR GROWTH: $3,000,000 over 1y, 18% 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
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.

  • Who funds American Policy Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Life Alliance Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds 45COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds CLUB FOR GROWTH ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

American AdvancementAmerican Policy Coali…A Public Voice IncThe Revitalization Pr…American Jobs and Gro…Prosperity Alliance I…Citizens for a Workin…Safe Streets Safe Com…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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.

    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 35 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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