How much does Americans for Prosperity give?

Americans for Prosperity reported 10 grants totaling $825,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Americans for Prosperity fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (27%), Civil Rights (23%), Community Improvement (17%).

Who are Americans for Prosperity's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mackinac Center Action ($550k), National Immigration Forum Action Fund ($457k), Vote No on 802 Association ($200k).

Does Americans for Prosperity fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Americans for Prosperity?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, State Policy Network, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.

Where is Americans for Prosperity based?

Americans for Prosperity is based in VA.

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Americans for Prosperity

AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY exists to educate and mobilize americans to advocate for solutions that expand freedom and opportunity, with a focus on addressing unsustainable government spending and debt, reforming the health care, immigration, and criminal justice systems, protecting civil liberties, and building an economy where everyone…

$826k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 10
Grants FY2024: 7
Organizations funded FY2023: 71%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 8; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 7
Total assets, FY2024: $61M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 71% of the organizations Americans for Prosperity funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	10	$826k	50%
FY2023	7	$662k	71%
FY2022	4	$144k	50%
FY2021	8	$311k	100%
FY2020	4	$385k	100%
FY2019	1	$100k	100%
FY2018	3	$125k	100%
FY2017	3	$143k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$725kCivil Rights$617kCommunity Improvement$448kEmployment$353kHealth$200kCrime & Legal$110kEducation$100kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mackinac Center Action	$550,000	2	47%
National Immigration Forum Action Fund	$456,869	3	42%
Vote No on 802 Association	$200,000	1	95%
Jersey 1st	$184,500	4	51%
National Immigration Forum	$150,000	1	4%
Arizona Free Enterprise Club	$110,000	1	n/a
Excellence in Education National Inc	$100,000	1	5%
Center for Worker Progress Action Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce	$90,000	1	9%
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty	$75,000	1	2%

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All grantees of Americans for Prosperity by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mackinac Center Action	$550,000	2	47%
National Immigration Forum Action Fund	$456,869	3	42%
Vote No on 802 Association	$200,000	1	95%
Jersey 1st	$184,500	4	51%
National Immigration Forum	$150,000	1	4%
Arizona Free Enterprise Club	$110,000	1	n/a
Excellence in Education National Inc	$100,000	1	5%
Center for Worker Progress Action Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce	$90,000	1	9%
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty	$75,000	1	2%
Jeffersonian Project	$75,000	1	19%
Manufacturer & Business Association	$67,500	2	1%
Growing Indiana Together Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Wmc Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	3%
Independent Women's Forum	$50,000	1	1%
Ohio Works	$50,000	1	1%
ShowMe Prosperity	$50,000	1	n/a
American Oil & Gas Alliance	$42,500	2	n/a
Kansas Legal Network Inc	$35,000	1	n/a
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Inc	$35,000	2	0%
Associated Builders & Contractors Inc	$25,500	1	5%
South Dakota Chamber of Commerce & Industry	$25,000	1	3%
Center of the American Experiment	$20,000	1	0%
Center for Independent Employees	$18,000	1	2%
Springs Taxpayerscom	$15,000	1	n/a
West Virginia Manufacturers Association	$15,000	1	1%
Young Voices	$15,000	1	2%
Oregon Business & Industry Association	$10,000	1	0%
Coastal Virginia Chamber of Commerc	$10,000	1	55%
No on Proposition 126	$10,000	1	n/a
Virginia Manufacturers Association	$10,000	1	1%

Americans for Prosperity supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 23.

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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.

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Open a dossier: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · State Policy Network · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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About Americans for Prosperity

How much does Americans for Prosperity give?: Americans for Prosperity reported 10 grants totaling $825,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Americans for Prosperity fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (27%), Civil Rights (23%), Community Improvement (17%).
Who are Americans for Prosperity's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mackinac Center Action ($550k), National Immigration Forum Action Fund ($457k), Vote No on 802 Association ($200k).
Does Americans for Prosperity fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Americans for Prosperity?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, State Policy Network, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Americans for Prosperity based?: Americans for Prosperity is based in VA.