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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$725kCivil Rights$617kCommunity Improvement$448kEmployment$353kHealth$200kCrime & Legal$110kEducation$100kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $533k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mackinac Center Action$250,000
National Immigration Forum$150,000
Jersey First$108,000
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty$75,000
Ohio Works Inc$50,000
Manufacturer and Business Association$50,000
WMC Foundation Inc$50,000
ShowMe Prosperity$50,000
American Oil & Gas Alliance dba AOGA Inc$25,000
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Inc$17,500
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $457k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%America Is Better: $261k → 14%AMERICA IS BETTER: $160k → 14%AMERICA IS BETTER: $36k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ND
MN
WI
MI
OR
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CO
MO
WV
VA
AZ
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DC
OK
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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 edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 6 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
20

Total granted

$1.3M
$984k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k 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 RightsYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther

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

  • J1
    Jersey 1st
    4× · 2021–2024 · $185k · revenue +122% · 51% of their budget
  • MB
    MANUFACTURER & BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $68k · revenue +15%
  • WM
    WISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • VN
    VOTE NO ON 802 ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · 95% of their budget
  • AF
    ARIZONA FREE ENTERPRISE CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $110k · revenue +229%
  • EI
    EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION NATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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2
Montana Chamber of Commerce

To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…

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3
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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4
Enterprise Washington

See schedule o.enterprise washington empowers its members to effectively engage in public affairs and the political process. enterprise washington provides its business and association members with leading-edge research and strategies to…

Community Improvement
5
Association of Washington Business

Awb is the catalytic leader and unifying voice for economic prosperity, enabling our members, their employees and all citizens to prosper throughout washington state.

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6
Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.

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7
Iowa Association of Business and Industry

To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.

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8
Illinois Manufacturers' Association

To strengthen the economic social environmental and governmental conditions for manufacturing and allied enterprises in the state of illinois, resulting in an englarged business base and increased employment.

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9
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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10
Connecticut Business and Industry Association Inc

CBIA is the voice of business in Connecticut, with thousands of member companies championing change at the State Capitol, shaping debate about economic competitiveness and fighting for a better future for all.

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11
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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12
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manufacturer & Business Association and the most unlike its peers is Vote No On 802 Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%30%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 30% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/31
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,534

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VOTE NO ON 802 ASSOCIATION — $200,000 · OtherVOTE NO ON 802 ASSOCIATIONJersey 1st — $184,500 · OtherJersey 1stNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM — $150,000 · OtherNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUMGREATER NORTH DAKOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $90,000 · OtherGREATER NORTH DAKOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEMANUFACTURER & BUSINESS ASSOCIATION — $67,500 · OtherMANUFACTURER & BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONShowMe Prosperity — $50,000 · OtherOhio Works — $50,000 · OtherWMC FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherGROWING INDIANA TOGETHER INC — $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN OIL & GAS ALLIANCE — $42,500 · Other+11 more — $205,500 · Other+11 moreMACKINAC CENTER ACTION — $550,000 · Civil RightsMACKINAC CENTER ACTIONJEFFERSONIAN PROJECT — $75,000 · Civil RightsJEFFERSONIAN PROJECTIndependent Women's Forum — $50,000 · Civil RightsIndependent Women's ForumNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM ACTION FUND — $456,869 · Human ServicesNATIONAL IMMIGRATIO…EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION NATIONAL INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCenter of the American Experiment — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCenter for Worker Progress Action Inc — $100,000 · EmploymentCenter for Independent Employees — $18,000 · EmploymentARIZONA FREE ENTERPRISE CLUB — $110,000 · Public BenefitWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY — $75,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,140,000Civil Rights$675,000Human Services$456,869Youth Development$120,000Employment$118,000Public Benefit$110,000Crime & Legal$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMACKINAC CENTER ACTION — $550,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM ACTION FUND — $456,869 over 3y, 42% of budgetVOTE NO ON 802 ASSOCIATION — $200,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetJersey 1st — $184,500 over 4y, 51% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM — $150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetEXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION NATIONAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetGREATER NORTH DAKOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $90,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY — $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJEFFERSONIAN PROJECT — $75,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMANUFACTURER & BUSINESS ASSOCIATION — $67,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOhio Works — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWMC FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS INC — $25,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Independent Employees — $18,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetYoung Voices — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOREGON BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOASTAL VIRGINIA CHAMBER OF COMMERC — $10,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetVIRGINIA MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

The Lynde and Harry B…State Policy NetworkNatl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation IncWI15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Americans for Prosperity 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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