· Public charity
American Future Fund
AMERICAN FUTURE FUND works to promote conservative free market principles to the citizens of america.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $105,752 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $110,652 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FUTURE FUND - FLORIDA | $87,252 |
| EMPOWER IOWA FUND | $10,000 |
| THE PATRIOTS FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 37% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EIEMPOWER IOWA FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $758k · revenue -30% · 96% of their budget
- TTTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE2× · 2017–2021 · $356k · revenue +150%
- TPTHE PATRIOTS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2024 · $286k · revenue +226% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- STSTAND TOGETHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +240%
- FAFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INCone grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue -5%
- CBCIVIC BENEFIT IRRV TRUST TTE BRUCE CHADWICKone grant, 2018 · $133k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization engages in activities and promote public policies that increase individual freedom and accountable government.
With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
Citizen Awareness Project exists to educate citizens and public officials on issues of public policy and to give them the tools necessary to make a difference in their community on issues affecting the public at large. Specifically, it…
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…
Advocate for various issues relating to limited government.
Organized for the purpose to engage in activities and promote public policies that protect individual liberties and argue for greater government accountability and transparency.
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
The Organization's mission is to restore trust in government by holding officials and groups accountable for corrupt and unethical behavior through investigation, legal action, and reporting.
To educate the public on issues such as parents rights and education freedom, fighting crime, securing elections, and economic opportunity. also promotes these issues and successes.
America 2100 advocates for policies that promote better protections for American companies and industries by educating Americans on the policy challenges we face as a country and proposing common sense solutions to those challenges.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taxpayers Protection Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Beyond Ball. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds EMPOWER IOWA FUND ↗
- Who funds STAND TOGETHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PATRIOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds AR2 INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BALL ↗
- Who funds STATE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Free Our Internet Inc ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds LET FREEDOM RING INC ↗
- Who funds Citizen Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds IOWA INTERNATIONAL AG SUMMIT ↗
- Who funds The Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · The Concord Fund
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 Future Fund 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.
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.
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