Skip to content
Plinth

· Public charity

American Security Fund

Dedicated to achieving long-term national security policy goals in the areas of artificial interlligence safety and biosecurity.

$200k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN UNITY FUND$100,000
GEORGIANS FOR STRONG FAMILIES$50,000
THE AURORA VENTURE$25,000
NORTH CAROLINA INFORMATION INNOVATION FUND$25,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 20% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE AURORA VENTURE: $25k → 14%AMERICAN UNITY FUND: $100k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Center for Campaign Innovation

Conduct research and training to guide conservatives through the digital transformation of politics and advocating for the increased adoption of digital communications technology by candidates and elected officials.

2
Advancing American Freedom Foundation Inc

Advancing american freedom foundation (aaff) educates the american people that freedom is the cornerstone of our republic, and that freedom must be fostered and protected against unjustified government encroachment. aaff informs the public…

Public Benefit
3
Future Tech Insights Inc

The organization provides public education on artificial intelligence.

Public Benefit
4
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…

5
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

6
Citizens United Foundation

An educational organization, which conducts research, informs and educates the public on various national and international issues.

Unclassified
7
American Action Forum Inc

Aaf is dedicated to broad public education on domestic and economic issues, using modern communication tools to engage the public and propose policy solutions. it engages in policy research based on data and provides commentary on domestic…

Social Science
8
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
9
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
10
Center for Ai Policy Inc

The center for ai policy (caip) is a nonpartisan research organization dedicated to mitigating the catastrophic risks of ai through policy development and advocacy. operating out of washington, dc, caip works to ensure ai is developed and…

Science & Tech
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
RepresentUs Education Fund

Represent.Us Education Fund (RUEF) is a national, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) Organization working for a US government that is truly accountable to the people, not just the powerful. RUEF educates and unites people from all backgrounds to defend…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina Information Innovation Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC — $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN UNITY FUND INCGEORGIANS FOR STRONG FAMILIES ACTION INC — $50,000 · OtherGEORGIANS FOR STRONG FAMILIES ACTION INCAURORA VENTURE INC — $25,000 · OtherAURORA VENTURE INCNorth Carolina Information Innovation Fund Inc — $25,000 · Public BenefitNorth Carolina…
Other$175,000Public Benefit$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN UNITY FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGEORGIANS FOR STRONG FAMILIES ACTION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetAURORA VENTURE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNorth Carolina Information Innovation Fund Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Security 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to American Security Fund?

    Find your warmest path to American Security 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $332k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph