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American Future Fund

AMERICAN FUTURE FUND works to promote conservative free market principles to the citizens of america.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$87k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.4MCommunity Improvement$558kPhilanthropy$300kCivil Rights$194kYouth Development$163kSocial Science$10kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$8k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $105,752, the rows itemized in this filing. The $110,652 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,900 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$967k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FUTURE FUND - FLORIDA$87,252
EMPOWER IOWA FUND$10,000
THE PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$8,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LET FREEDOM RING INC: $18k → 6%INSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION: $8k → 14%TAXPAYER PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $351k → 14%EMPOWER IOWA FUND: $187k → 5%FAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION: $300k → 9%FRONTIERS OF FREEDOM: $59k → 6%AR2 INC: $125k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR LIBERTY: $10k → 7%DONORSTRUST: $200k → 9%CITIZEN OUTREACH: $15k → 13%FREE OUR INTERNET: $50k → 7%TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%EMPOWER IOWA FUND: $185k → 5%FRONTIERS OF FREEDOM: $10k → 6%FREEDOM PARTNERS: $500k → 7%DONORS TRUST: $40k → 9%FREE OUR INTERNET: $40k → 7%THE HISPANIC LEADERSHIP FUND INC: $8k → 14%EMPOWER IOWA FUND: $97k → 5%AR2 INC: $100k → 7%60 PLUS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 9%NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE INC: $100k → 14%EMPOWER IOWA FUND: $83k → 5%CONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY: $8k → 7%CIVIC BENEFIT IRRV TRUST TTE BRUCE CHADWICK: $133k → 14%EMPOWER IOWA FUND: $78k → 5%STATE SOLUTIONS INC: $125k → 14%EMPOWER IOWA FUND: $71k → 5%STATE SOLUTIONS INC: $25k → 14%EMPOWER IOWA FUND: $47k → 5%EMPOWER IOWA FUND: $10k → 5%THE PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $168k → 5%BEYOND BALL: $125k → 5%THE PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $110k → 5%AMERICAN FUTURE FUND - FLORIDA: $87k → 5%BEYOND BALL: $30k → 5%IOWA INTERNATIONAL AG SUMMIT: $10k → 5%THE PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $9k → 5%BEYOND BALL: $8k → 5%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

ME
NV
IA
PA
VA
SC
DC
GA
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 8 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$2.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+15%

Still filing today

75%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • TT
    THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE
    2× · 2017–2021 · $356k · revenue +150%
  • TP
    THE PATRIOTS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $286k · revenue +226% · 100% of their budget
  • SS
    STATE SOLUTIONS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • ST
    STAND TOGETHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +240%
  • FA
    FAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue -5%
  • CB
    CIVIC BENEFIT IRRV TRUST TTE BRUCE CHADWICK
    one grant, 2018 · $133k
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
Individual Liberties Alliance

The organization engages in activities and promote public policies that increase individual freedom and accountable government.

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2
American Policy Coalition

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.

Public Benefit
3
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
4
Citizen Awareness Project Inc

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…

Civil Rights
5
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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6
Americans for Limited Government Inc

Advocate for various issues relating to limited government.

Civil Rights
7
Protecting Liberty Justice and Freedom

Organized for the purpose to engage in activities and promote public policies that protect individual liberties and argue for greater government accountability and transparency.

—
8
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
9
Americans for Public Trust

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.

Arts & Culture
10
And to the Republic

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.

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11
America2100

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.

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taxpayers Protection Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 24 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAND TOGETHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $500,000 · OtherSTAND TOGETHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCAR2 INC: $225,000 · OtherAR2 INCCIVIC BENEFIT IRRV TRUST TTE BRUCE CHADWICK: $133,256 · OtherCIVIC BENEFIT IRRV TRUST TTE BRUCE CHADW…NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE INC: $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE INCFree Our Internet Inc: $90,000 · OtherFree Our Internet IncAMERICAN FUTURE FUND - FLORIDA: $87,252 · OtherAMERICAN FUTURE FUND - FLORIDAFRONTIERS OF FREEDOM: $68,500 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA CLUB FOR GROWTH: $50,000 · Other+4 more: $35,000 · OtherEMPOWER IOWA FUND: $757,500 · Community ImprovementEMPOWER IOWA FUND+1 more: $7,500 · Community ImprovementFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsFAITH AND FREEDOM …THE PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $286,000 · Civil RightsTHE PATRIOTS FOUND…+1 more: $15,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $355,700 · Public BenefitTHE TAXPAYERS PR…STATE SOLUTIONS INC: $150,000 · Public BenefitSTATE SOLUTIONS …LET FREEDOM RING INC: $17,500 · Public BenefitDonors Trust Inc: $240,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Tr…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADV…BEYOND BALL: $162,500 · Recreation & SportsThe Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc: $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,289,008Community Improvement$765,000Civil Rights$601,000Public Benefit$523,200Philanthropy$300,000Recreation & Sports$162,500Arts & Culture$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEMPOWER IOWA FUND: $757,500 over 8y, 96% of budgetTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $355,700 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $286,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetDonors Trust Inc: $240,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAR2 INC: $225,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBEYOND BALL: $162,500 over 3y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLET FREEDOM RING INC: $17,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetCitizen Outreach Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetIOWA INTERNATIONAL AG SUMMIT: $10,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.8% 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…Ncta - the Internet &…The Concord Fund
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · The Concord Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%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
    0get 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to American Future Fund?

    Find your warmest path to American Future Fund 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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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