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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.

$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$48k
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.

Civil Rights$4.5MPublic Benefit$1.4MCommunity Improvement$48k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $78,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $83,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 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.
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$372k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALUE INTEGRITY$48,000
ARIZONA HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION DBA EQUALITY ARIZONA ACTION$20,000
LGBT COURAGE COALITION$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (EQUALITY AND FAIRNESS FOR ALL): $560k → 11%TEXAS INTERFAITH CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICYTEXAS IMPACT: $135k → 10%NORTH TEXAS COMMISSION: $10k → 14%STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%EQUALITY UTAH: $15k → 8%GEORGIA EQUALITY: $65k → 14%ROCKY MOUNTAIN POLICY GROUP (RMPG): $40k → 8%FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA: $30k → 18%VALUE INTEGRITY: $48k → 9%LGBT COURAGE COALITION: $10k → 11%UNITED GAYS AND LESBIANS OF WYOMING DBA WYOMING EQUALITY: $30k → 10%ONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (EQUALITY AND FAIRNESS FOR ALL): $281k → 11%TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS: $350k → 10%STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA: $20k → 18%UNITED GAYS AND LESBIANS OF WYOMING DBA WYOMING EQUALITY: $25k → 10%ONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (EQUALITY AND FAIRNESS FOR ALL): $38k → 11%PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PROJECT: $290k → 14%FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA: $15k → 18%FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS: $910k → 14%FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA DBA FAIRNESS PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 18%FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS: $510k → 14%NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $455k → 14%FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS: $270k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY: $10k → 14%NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $125k → 14%FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS: $259k → 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

WY
UT
CO
WV
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 10 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$4.5M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-4%

Still filing today

80%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
Civil RightsPublic BenefitReligionEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • OC
    ONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $879k · revenue +50% · 96% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NISKANEN CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $580k · revenue +48%
  • SG
    STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR A BALANCED BUDGET INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -8%
  • TA
    TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS
    one grant, 2017 · $350k · revenue -4%
  • PE
    PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $290k · 49% of their budget
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
Equal Rights for All Petition

Amends Constitution: Specifies that prohibited discrimination includes discrimination concerning gender identity/pregnancy, related health decisions, sexual orientation

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2
Eqtx Equality Texas Foundation

EQTX Equality Texas Foundation works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans through education, community organizing, and collaboration.

Civil Rights
3
Tennessee Equality Project

To promote equality for lgbt citizens of tennessee

Civil Rights
4
Advocates for Trans Equality

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…

Civil Rights
5
EqualityMaine

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,…

Civil Rights
6
Equality Foundation of Ga Inc

Conducting research and educating the public on gay, lesbian/ bisexual and transgender social, economic, political and legislative issues.

Civil Rights
7
National Trans Bar Association
Education
8
Tennessee Equality Project Foundati

To promote equality for lgbt citizens of tennessee.

Civil Rights
9
Northwest Arkansas Equality Inc

Northwest Arkansas Equalitys mission is to provide programming, education and advocacy to serve, connect, and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.

Civil Rights
10
Fairness Campaign Inc

Working for equality & ending anti-gay discrimination.

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11
Equality Pennsylvania Education Fund

Legal & public policy advocacy

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12
North Texas Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Chamber of Commerce Inc

The North Texas GLBT Chamber of Commerce works to achieve equality through business.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Utah; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/20
Grantees still filing
8/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS: $1,949,000 · OtherFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANSTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS: $350,000 · OtherTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESSPRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PROJECT INC: $290,000 · OtherPRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PROJECT INCGEORGIANS FOR STRONG FAMILIES ACTION INC: $250,000 · OtherGEORGIANS FOR STRONG FAMILIES ACTION INCEQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas: $195,000 · OtherEQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas+4 more: $163,000 · OtherONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $878,500 · Civil RightsONE COMMUNITY ACTION INCAMERICANS FOR A BALANCED BUDGET INC: $500,000 · Civil RightsAMERICANS FOR A BALANCED BUDG…FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC: $70,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY NC: $65,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $25,000 · Civil RightsTHE NISKANEN CENTER INC: $580,000 · Public BenefitTHE NISKANEN …STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Public BenefitSTATE GOVERNM…Equality Arizona: $267,500 · EducationTEXAS IMPACT EDUCATION FUND: $135,000 · ReligionUNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsLGBT COURAGE COALITION: $10,000 · Health
Other$3,197,000Civil Rights$1,538,500Public Benefit$730,000Education$267,500Religion$135,000Recreation & Sports$55,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS: $1,949,000 over 4y, 98% of budgetONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $878,500 over 3y, 96% of budgetTHE NISKANEN CENTER INC: $580,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR A BALANCED BUDGET INC: $500,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS: $350,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetPRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PROJECT INC: $290,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetEquality Arizona: $267,500 over 3y, 22% of budgetGEORGIANS FOR STRONG FAMILIES ACTION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetEQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas: $195,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTEXAS IMPACT EDUCATION FUND: $135,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetFAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC: $70,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetGEORGIA EQUALITY INC: $65,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEQUALITY NC: $65,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetUNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING: $55,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN POLICY GROUP: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEQUALITY UTAH: $15,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNORTH TEXAS COMMISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Equality FederationHuman Rights Campaign…All Hands on Deck Net…
Equality FederationOR20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equality Federation · Human Rights Campaign Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc

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

2022
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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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    Find your warmest path to American Unity Fund Inc 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 21 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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