· Public charity
American Unity Fund Inc
American unity fund (auf) is dedicated to engaging republicans and republican officeholders to advance the cause of freedom for lgbtq americans.
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 $78,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $83,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALUE INTEGRITY | $48,000 |
| ARIZONA HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION DBA EQUALITY ARIZONA ACTION | $20,000 |
| LGBT COURAGE COALITION | $10,000 |
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- OCONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $879k · revenue +50% · 96% of their budget
- TNTHE NISKANEN CENTER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $580k · revenue +48%
- SGSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- AFAMERICANS FOR A BALANCED BUDGET INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -97%
- TATEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESSone grant, 2017 · $350k · revenue -4%
- PEPRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PROJECT INCone grant, 2022 · $290k · 49% of their budget
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.
Amends Constitution: Specifies that prohibited discrimination includes discrimination concerning gender identity/pregnancy, related health decisions, sexual orientation
EQTX Equality Texas Foundation works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans through education, community organizing, and collaboration.
To promote equality for lgbt citizens of tennessee
Advocates for trans equality fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in america. leveraging decades of experience on the frontlines of power, we shift government and society towards a future where we are no less…
EqualityMaine works to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through political action, community building, education,…
Conducting research and educating the public on gay, lesbian/ bisexual and transgender social, economic, political and legislative issues.
To promote equality for lgbt citizens of tennessee.
Northwest Arkansas Equalitys mission is to provide programming, education and advocacy to serve, connect, and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.
Working for equality & ending anti-gay discrimination.
Legal & public policy advocacy
The North Texas GLBT Chamber of Commerce works to achieve equality through business.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Utah and the most unlike its peers is Presidential Election Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 21 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 FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds ONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NISKANEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR A BALANCED BUDGET INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Equality Arizona ↗
- Who funds GEORGIANS FOR STRONG FAMILIES ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas ↗
- Who funds STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS IMPACT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY NC ↗
- Who funds UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN POLICY GROUP ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY UTAH ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds LGBT COURAGE COALITION ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
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: Equality Federation · Human Rights Campaign Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc
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 Unity Fund Inc 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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