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American Property Owners Alliance at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

American Property Owners Alliance

In uncertain times, our homes, land, and properties are an essential source of refuge and stability.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Benefit$5.6MHuman Services$2.5MEducation$250kCommunity Improvement$135kCivil Rights$100k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$500,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW HEIGHTS FOR AMERICA$500,000
ONE NATION$500,000
HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD$500,000
NATIONAL BLACK EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL INC$70,000
FINANCIAL FOUNDATIONS UNIVERSITY LLC$70,000
DOUGLAS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$70,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK: $2.0M → 14%AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK: $500k → 14%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

MA
WY
OH
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 5 repeat orgs$855k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$7.7M
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $570k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • HM
    HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +714%
  • AA
    American Action Network Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +92%
  • ON
    ONE NATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • AU
    AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -25%
  • OM
    OPPORTUNITY MATTERS NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +56%
  • AF
    Americans for Tax Reform
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -17%
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 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
2
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
3
RepresentUs

RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…

Public Benefit
4
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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5
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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6
Coalition for American Excellence
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7
United States Public Policy Council

To engage in research, education and public awareness campaigns relating to the national security, intelligence and foreign and national policy of the United States of America, and freedom in America and the World. Also to engage in those…

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8
Act for America

Advocacy concerning democratic values, national security and defense; lobbying of government officials in favor of policies that further the defense of the u.s. and its constitution; development of coalitions with other organizations to…

Civil Rights
9
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.

—
10
Issue One

Issue one is the leading crosspartisan political reform organization that educates the public, engages capitol hill, and advocates for solutions to fix our broken political system.

Public Benefit
11
Council for National Policy

To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.

Public Benefit
12
Unify Us

Unify.US is a public policy organization dedicated to formulating, promoting, and delivering solutions based on the principles of individual freedom, limited government, free enterprise, and traditional American values.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Taxpayers Union; the most unlike its peers is The Suburban Project. 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD: $3,000,000 · Community ImprovementHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican Action Network Inc: $2,500,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Action Network IncONE NATION: $2,000,000 · Public BenefitONE NATIONNew Heights for America: $500,000 · OtherNew Heights …National Black Empowerment Council Inc: $110,000 · OtherNational Bla…AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN UNI…OPPORTUNITY MATTERS NETWORK INC: $100,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY …FINANCIAL FOUNDATIONS UNIVERSITY LLC: $70,000 · OtherFINANCIAL FO…+3 more: $60,000 · Other+3 moreDouglass Leadership Institute Inc: $80,000 · Education
Community Improvement$3,025,000Human Services$2,500,000Public Benefit$2,000,000Other$940,000Education$80,000

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 budgetHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD: $3,000,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetAmerican Action Network Inc: $2,500,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetONE NATION: $2,000,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNew Heights for America: $500,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNational Black Empowerment Council Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN UNITY FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY MATTERS NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetDouglass Leadership Institute Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetAmericans for Tax Reform: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Property Owners Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Property Owners Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%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.
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    How do I get to American Property Owners Alliance?

    Find your warmest path to American Property Owners Alliance 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 13 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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