How much did BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE grant in FY2024?

BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE reported 14 grants totaling $17,358,938 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE based?

BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE is based in DC.

BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE

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· Public charity

BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE

The mission of BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE (baf) is to educate the public and build a grassroots movement to advance new policies on a broad range of issues important to the welfare of all americans, including, but not limited to: housing, healthcare, education, immigration, energy, economy, jobs, trade and national security.

$17M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$10M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$50k–250k4 grants · $600k
$250k+7 grants · $17M

$250,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

INTERSTATE PRIORITIES INC$10,100,000
EU-US FORUM INC$2,000,000
THE AMERICAN PROMISE INC$1,630,000
TURNING POINT ACTION$1,613,001
WESTERN HERITAGE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$870,937
NORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER$250,000
VOTE FOR AMERICA$250,000
CITIZEN AWARENESS PROJECT INC$225,000
BALLOT FREEDOM FUND$200,000
COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC$125,000
REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE$50,000
HARDWORKING GEORGIANS INC$25,000
WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC$10,000
PATRIOTS FIRST OPPORTUNITY FUND INC$10,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 92% of your 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.

The Libertarian Institute

Provide information regarding libertarian principles.

Education

Americans for Limited Government Inc

Advocate for various issues relating to limited government.

Civil Rights

Center for American Greatness Inc

Defend the principles of limited constitutional government based on the consent of the governed and of the American constitutional order as the best means for securing the rights inherent to all mankind

Social Science

Rocky Mountain Policy Group

Promoting a strong state economy with limited government taxes and regulation.

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Americans for Public Trust

The Organizations mission is to restore trust in government by holding officials and groups accountable for corrupt and unethical behavior through investigation legal action and reporting

Arts & Culture

Keep Country First Policy Action Inc

Build a "country first" civic movement to begin improving political dialogue in america, renewing center-right issues and thought, promoting bipartisanship wherever possible, and ushering in a return to an optimistic and hopeful vision.

Civil Rights

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

Foundation for Law and Government

To promote and educate the american public regarding conservative, free-market economic principles, transparent and accountable government, and constitution-based legal reform.

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Liberty Guard Inc

To identify policies that infringe, restrict, reduce or otherwise diminish the personal freedoms and individual liberty of u.s. citizens and residents and to educate/motivate the public to engage in the public policy process to protect…

Civil Rights

Common Sense Institute

Common sense institute (csi) is a non-partisan research organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of the economy. as a leading voice for free enterprise, csi's mission is to examine the fiscal impacts of policies and educate…

Social Science

Defend Democracy Now

Conduct research and expose abuse of authority and power by government authorities and the deleterious effect such actions have on american democracy.

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Clear Information Colorado

Clear information colorado conducts research, writing, online publication and citizen education on policies that will strengthen the united states of america. these activities will primarily be focused on the following four subject areas:…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State Government Leadership Foundation and the most unlike its peers is World Golf Foundation Inc. 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

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

9/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$63,868,938Social Science$1,630,000Public Benefit$525,000Crime & Legal$500,000Civil Rights$235,000Community Improvement$115,000Recreation & Sports$35,000

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: INTERSTATE PRIORITIES INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 921516265 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 INTERSTATE PRIORITIES INC, 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 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Building America's Future?

Find your warmest path to Building America's Future 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.

BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Building America's Future?

More from the funding graph

BUILDING AMERICA'S FUTURE

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Building America's Future?

More from the funding graph