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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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$470k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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.

Crime & Legal$1.5MPublic Benefit$420kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$48kYouth Development$40kCommunity Improvement$18kEmployment$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $470k
$470,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAUSE OF ACTION$470,000
GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $48k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SM Wright Foundation: $32k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $16k → 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

IL
WI
VA
AZ
DC
HI
LA
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 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
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
2
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
5
Young Americans for Liberty Foundation

Yalf seeks to recruit, train, and educate students on the ideals of liberty and the constitution.

Public Benefit
6
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

The quincy institute promotes ideas that move u.s. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace. qi's staff and non-resident experts expose the costs and consequences of…

Community Improvement
7
Employ America

To promote macroeconomic policies that ensure the sustained advancement of labor market outcomes for all american workers, i.e. tight labor markets, higher wages and better quality employment.

Employment
8
Progressive Change Institute

The progressive change institute develops and promotes public policy, fosters bottom-up democracy, and educates the public. this includes working to impact the mainstream political discourse and protect democracy.

Public Benefit
9
The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

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10
Americans for Tax Reform

American for Tax Reform (ATR) is a national grassroots organization focused on increasing public awareness about the size and regulations of government and rallying support for lower taxes, smaller government and congressional…

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11
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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12
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. the institute will achieve its mission…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is R Street Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cause of Action Institute: $1,540,000 · Civil RightsCause of Action InstituteCOMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET: $300,000 · Public BenefitCOMMITTEE FOR A RES…GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitGRASSROOT INSTITUTE…THE JOHN K MACIVER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $25,000 · Public BenefitTHE JOHN K MACIVER …Young Voices: $50,000 · OtherARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY: $17,500 · OtherNATIONAL ABLE NETWORK INC: $10,000 · OtherSM Wright Foundation: $48,000 · Human ServicesR STREET INSTITUTE: $45,000 · EducationYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentSecond Look Alliance: $7,000 · Crime & Legal
Civil Rights$1,540,000Public Benefit$375,000Other$77,500Human Services$48,000Education$45,000Youth Development$40,000Crime & Legal$7,000

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 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
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.

Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Americans for Prosperity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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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