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· Public charity
Americans for Prosperity Foundation
Educate americans on solutions that expand freedom and opportunity to unleash prosperity for all.
$520k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
2
Communities
$470k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Civil Rights$1.5MPublic Benefit$375kHuman Services$48kEducation$45kYouth Development$40kCrime & Legal$7kOther$78k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
officecongressional budget
2021
employmentcareereducation
2022
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2023
groupseconomyrealfree marketsissuesbuildingpolicy
2024
schedule
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $470k
$470,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CAUSE OF ACTION$470,000
- GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC$50,000
02The need
04
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 (FY17–18, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
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Competitive Enterprise Institute
Public policy research/education dedicated to principles of free enterprise & limited government.
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2
Liberty Justice Center
To use strategic litigation to advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society
Crime & Legal
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Social Science
4
Center for National Independence in
Vote smart is a nonpartisan research group that collects, keeps and makes available the factual records on public officials and issues.
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5
National Institute for Workers' Rights
The national institute for workers' rights (the institute) mission is to advance workers' rights through research, thought leadership, and education for policymakers, advocates, and the public.
Employment
6
Libertas Institute
Libertas Institute is a public policy and education organization focused on free markets and individual rights. We generate non-partisan analysis and commentary, conduct investigative research, and publish educational literature to inform…
Public Benefit
7
American Constitution Society for Law
The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) believes that the constitution is "of the people, by the people, and for the people." acs interprets the constitution based on its text and against the backdrop of history and…
Education
8
Colorado Fiscal Institute
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Community Improvement
9
Responsible Innovation Labs Inc
Responsible Innovation Labs is a coalition of leading investors and technology executives who recognize the importance of responsible innovation and the need for a more rigorous approach to tackling the challenges and opportunities of this…
Science & Tech
10
Young Americans for Liberty Foundation
Yalf seeks to recruit, train, and educate students on the ideals of liberty and the constitution.
Public Benefit
11
Free Press
Free press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. free press conducts research on how the current media system influences the development of public policy and educates the public and policy-makers on how a…
Arts & Culture
12
Progress Texas Institute
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Civil Rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cause of Action Institute and the most unlike its peers is Second Look Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Civil Rights$1,540,000Public Benefit$375,000Other$77,500Human Services$48,000Education$45,000Youth Development$40,000Crime & Legal$7,000
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 CAUSE OF ACTION ↗
- Who funds Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget ↗
- Who funds YOUNG VOICES ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds SM Wright Foundation ↗
- Who funds R STREET INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Young Americans for Liberty Inc ↗
- Who funds John K Maclver Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABLE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND LOOK ALLIANCE ↗
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.
Charles Koch InstituteVA13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Charles Koch Institute · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation Americans for Prosperity Foundation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CAUSE OF ACTION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 452805977 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CAUSE OF ACTION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Americans for Prosperity Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Americans for Prosperity Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines