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Better Tomorrow

Better Tomorrow is established primarily to further the common good and welfare of U.S.

$413k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Public Benefit$3.3MHuman Services$1.9MPhilanthropy$350kCivil Rights$188kCommunity Improvement$25k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$125,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Encore$275,000
The Faithful in Action$125,000
Firebrand Action$12,500
02The need
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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 (FY21–23, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Encore: $1.4M → 10%American Encore: $275k → 11%American Encore: $146k → 11%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.
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.

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America Engaged

America Engaged is a public policy organization, dedicated to promoting the Constitution of the United States and its core structural features.

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2
Coalition for American Excellence
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3
American Voice

American Voice's mission is to create a more prosperous, fair and free

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4
Article Iv

Our mission is to advance policies that promote freedom and

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5
Citizen Awareness Project Inc

Citizen Awareness Project exists to educate citizens and public officials on issues of public policy and to give them the tools necessary to make a difference in their community on issues affecting the public at large. Specifically, it…

Civil Rights
6
Vote for America

Our mission is to increase voting in elections across the United States by offering nonpartisan information primarily across social media and podcast platforms.

Public Benefit
7
Defenders of Liberty

To engage in activities that promote the free participation of diverse voices in the democratic process, including through policy advocacy, non-partisan voter registration, litigation, and other permissible means; and to promote social…

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8
American Prosperity Alliance

American Prosperity Alliances mission is to advocate for legislative and regulatory policies that advance economic prosperity in America.

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9
Liberty Defense Foundation

The purpose of the Organization is to engage in activities and promote public policies that increase individual freedom and accountable government.

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10
Right Vote Inc
Civil Rights
11
Fdd Action

FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement
12
United States Public Policy Council

To engage in research, education and public awareness campaigns relating to the national security, intelligence and foreign and national policy of the United States of America, and freedom in America and the World. Also to engage in those…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Law and Government Inc; the most unlike its peers is Usa Women of Action. 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

10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIVIC VOTER ENGAGEMENT: $2,466,762 · Civil RightsCIVIC VOTER ENGAGEMENTAmerican Encore: $1,871,250 · Human ServicesAmerican EncoreOver the Horizon Action: $675,000 · OtherOver the Horizon Act…Firebrand Action: $162,500 · OtherFirebrand ActionThe Faithful in Action: $125,000 · OtherThe Faithful in Acti…FOUNDATION FOR LAW AND GOVERNMENT INC: $50,000 · Other+1 more: $25,000 · OtherBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA FREE ENTERPRISE CLUB: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Civil Rights$2,466,762Human Services$1,871,250Other$1,037,500Philanthropy$350,000Public Benefit$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Encore: $1,871,250 over 3y, 91% of budgetOver the Horizon Action: $675,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFirebrand Action: $162,500 over 2y, 100% of budgetThe Faithful in Action: $125,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetDonors Trust Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LAW AND GOVERNMENT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetARIZONA FREE ENTERPRISE CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Better Tomorrow?

    Find your warmest path to Better Tomorrow through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 10 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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