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Americans for Prosperity Foundation

Americans for Prosperity Foundation exists to educate americans on 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 has an…

$520k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$470,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$470,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Americans for Prosperity Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23
Public BenefitCivil RightsEducationCrime & LegalOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$520k50%
FY20233$933k67%
FY20221$200k100%
FY20213$67k100%
FY20191$300k100%
FY20182$41k50%
FY20172$72kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$1.5MPublic Benefit$420kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$48kYouth Development$40kCommunity Improvement$18kEmployment$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
VA
AZ
DC
HI
LA
TX

Top grantees

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

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All grantees of Americans for Prosperity Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cause of Action Institute$1,540,0003100%
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget$300,00015%
Grassroot Institute of Hawaii Inc$50,00013%
Young Voices$50,00018%
SM Wright Foundation$48,00022%
R Street Institute$45,00010%
Young Americans for Liberty Inc$40,0001n/a
The John K Maciver Institute for Public Policy Inc$25,00015%
Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry$17,50010%
National Able Network Inc$10,00010%
Second Look Alliance$7,00013%

Where it is load-bearing

Americans for Prosperity Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCause of Action Institute: $1,540,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget: $300,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGrassroot Institute of Hawaii Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetYoung Voices: $50,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetSM Wright Foundation: $48,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetR Street Institute: $45,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe John K Maciver Institute for Public Policy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetArizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry: $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Able Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Look Alliance: $7,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget

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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 10.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Foundation

How much does Americans for Prosperity Foundation give?
Americans for Prosperity Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $520,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Americans for Prosperity Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (73%), Public Benefit (20%), Environment (2%).
Who are Americans for Prosperity Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cause of Action Institute ($1.5M), Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget ($300k), Grassroot Institute of Hawaii Inc ($50k).
Does Americans for Prosperity Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Americans for Prosperity Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Americans for Prosperity Foundation based?
Americans for Prosperity Foundation is based in VA.

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 11 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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