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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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$62MInternational$2.0MCivil Rights$1.4MEnvironment$871kCrime & Legal$500kCommunity Improvement$365kRecreation & Sports$35kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $600k
  • $250k+7 grants · $17M
$250,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VOTE FOR AMERICA$250,000
NORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER$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
PATRIOTS FIRST OPPORTUNITY FUND INC$10,000
WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TURNING POINT ACTION: $1.6M → 11%EU-US FORUM INC: $2.0M → 10%FREEDOM'S FUTURE FUND: $500k → 10%INTERSTATE PRIORITIES INC: $10.1M → 11%THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP AND POLITICAL PHILOS: $300k → 14%NEW GENERATION INC: $115k → 17%STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $225k → 14%WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 6%THE AMERICAN PROMISE INC: $1.6M → 19%THE FAMILY LEADER INC: $500k → 10%PATRIOTS FIRST OPPORTUNITY FUND INC: $10k → 8%CITIZENS FOR SANITY INC: $43.0M → 9%CITIZEN AWARENESS PROJECT INC: $225k → 3%WESTERN HERITAGE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $871k → 8%BALLOT FREEDOM FUND: $200k → 9%AND TO THE REPUBLIC: $3.3M → 6%CITIZENS FOR LEGAL REFORM INC: $10k → 7%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE: $50k → 14%WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 6%LET'S PRESERVE THE AMERICAN DREAM: $1.4M → 19%NORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER: $250k → 8%VOTE FOR AMERICA: $250k → 8%COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC: $250k → 6%COMMON SENSE AMERICA INC: $125k → 6%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

MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
VA
DE
AZ
AR
NC
DC
GA
FL
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
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

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2
Great America Coalition

To educate the public on policy issues.

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3
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
4
Americans for Public Trust

The Organization's 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
5
The Liberal Patriot Inc

The liberal patriot (tlp) is a digital newsletter focused on american politics and public policy. tlp aims to provide readers with honest analysis and original commentary to help advance a vital center perspective in american life.

Civil Rights
6
American Policy Coalition

With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.

Public Benefit
7
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
8
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
9
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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10
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
11
Common Sense Policy Institute

The Common Sense Policy Institute works to inform the American public of dysfunction in the government by identifying government waste, fraud, and abuse through engaging in nonpartisan analysis, study, and research relating to government…

Public Benefit
12
Rocky Mountain Policy Group

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State Government Leadership Foundation; the most unlike its peers is New Generation 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 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. 20 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
4/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Citizens for Sanity: $43,000,000 · OtherCitizens for SanityINTERSTATE PRIORITIES INC: $10,100,000 · OtherINTERSTATE PRIORITIES INCAND TO THE REPUBLIC: $3,250,000 · Other+11 more: $7,518,938 · Other+11 moreTHE AMERICAN PROMISE INC: $1,630,000 · Social ScienceVote for America: $250,000 · Public BenefitSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $225,000 · Public BenefitREPUBLICAN GOVERNORS PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitTHE FAMILY LEADER INC: $500,000 · Crime & LegalCITIZEN AWARENESS PROJECT INC: $225,000 · Civil RightsCITIZENS FOR LEGAL REFORM INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsNEW GENERATION INC: $115,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$63,868,938Social Science$1,630,000Public Benefit$525,000Crime & Legal$500,000Civil Rights$235,000Community Improvement$115,000Recreation & Sports$35,000

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 budgetCitizens for Sanity: $43,000,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetINTERSTATE PRIORITIES INC: $10,100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetAND TO THE REPUBLIC: $3,250,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetEU-US FORUM INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PROMISE INC: $1,630,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetTURNING POINT ACTION INC: $1,613,001 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWESTERN HERITAGE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $870,937 over 1y, 88% of budgetFREEDOM'S FUTURE FUND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMON SENSE AMERICA INC: $375,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $300,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetVote for America: $250,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER: $250,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCITIZEN AWARENESS PROJECT INC: $225,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetNEW GENERATION INC: $115,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetREPUBLICAN GOVERNORS PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHardworking Georgians Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR LEGAL REFORM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 100% 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 Building America's Future funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Building America's Future. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 20%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
    2get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 23 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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