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American Future Republic

The mission of the organization is to build and support networks of activists to bring about social change and advances in issues of public policy.

$1.3M
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
4
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$200,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 20
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Total assets, FY2022
$8.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations American Future Republic funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20224$1.3M100%
FY202020$21Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Public Benefit$12MCrime & Legal$7.0MCivil Rights$2.3MArts & Culture$750kHuman Services$300k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
OR
WY
CA
AZ
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP$7,000,0001n/a
Workmoney Inc$5,100,000125%
Story Network Foundation$1,175,000116%
Defending Democracy Together$1,000,00013%
Tides Advocacy$1,000,00011%
Frameshift$750,0001n/a
Future Now Action$500,000119%
Ab Foundation$500,00012%
Pizza to the Polls$500,00015%
Ipi Action Fund Inc$500,000134%
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All grantees of American Future Republic by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP$7,000,0001n/a
Workmoney Inc$5,100,000125%
Story Network Foundation$1,175,000116%
Defending Democracy Together$1,000,00013%
Tides Advocacy$1,000,00011%
Frameshift$750,0001n/a
Future Now Action$500,000119%
Ab Foundation$500,00012%
Pizza to the Polls$500,00015%
Ipi Action Fund Inc$500,000134%
Piedmont Rising Inc$500,00016%
Rapid Resist Action$484,828125%
Voto Latino Inc$450,00012%
Latino Victory Project$450,000132%
National Immigration Forum Action Fund$300,000125%
Rural America Fund$250,000112%
Voteamerica$250,00017%
Center for American Progress Action Fund$250,00011%
Care in Action Inc$200,00011%
Majority Forward$200,0001n/a
Citizen$165,0001n/a
Grab Your Wallet Alliance$150,000168%
Time's Up Now Inc$100,00017%
More Perfect Union Action$45,00013%

Where it is load-bearing

American Future Republic supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorkmoney Inc: $5,100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetStory Network Foundation: $1,175,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDefending Democracy Together: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTides Advocacy: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFuture Now Action: $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetAb Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPizza to the Polls: $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetIpi Action Fund Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetPiedmont Rising Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRapid Resist Action: $484,828 over 1y, 25% of budgetVoto Latino Inc: $450,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLatino Victory Project: $450,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetNational Immigration Forum Action Fund: $300,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetRural America Fund: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetVoteamerica: $250,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCenter for American Progress Action Fund: $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCare in Action Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGrab Your Wallet Alliance: $150,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetTime's Up Now Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMore Perfect Union Action: $45,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC33.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Future Forward USA Action · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Patriotic Republic · Fund for a Better Future Inc · New Venture Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Impetus Fund · Brick by Brick Foundation · Priorities USA

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.

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How do I get to American Future Republic?

Find your warmest path to American Future Republic 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.

About American Future Republic

How much does American Future Republic give?
American Future Republic reported 7 grants totaling $1,279,828 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does American Future Republic fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Public Benefit (54%), Crime & Legal (31%), Civil Rights (10%).
Who are American Future Republic's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP ($7.0M), Workmoney Inc ($5.1M), Story Network Foundation ($1.2M).
Does American Future Republic fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Future Republic?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Future Forward USA Action, America Votes.
Where is American Future Republic based?
American Future Republic is based in IL.

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 26 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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