· Public charity
Center for a Free Economy Inc
To educate the public and policymakers about tax policy, health care policy, trade policy, and other issues related to economic policy
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONORS TRUST | $175,000 |
| NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION | $115,000 |
| INDEPENDENT WOMENS VOICE | $25,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NTNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $210k · revenue +24%
- AFAmericans for Tax Reform5× · 2019–2023 · $150k · revenue -69%
- NTNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue -27%
Funded once
- T6THE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +483%
- TJTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +48%
- CFCOALITIONS FOR AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.
CalTaxs mission is to serve the general public and our members including Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and individuals by promoting sound tax policy and government efficiency at the state and local levels of government through…
A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.
Conduct nonpartisan public education programs, lobbying activities, attempt to influence legislation and programs involving government waste.
To provide citizens with independent research on government fiscal policy and to promote the most efficient use of taxpayer dollars
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
The mission of taxpayers for common sense (tcs) is to achieve a government that spends taxpayer dollars responsibly and operates within its means. we work with the public, policymakers, and the media to increase transparency of the federal…
Research and recommendations on tax and spending issues
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.
The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…
Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Taxpayers Union and the most unlike its peers is Candid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds Americans for Tax Reform ↗
- Who funds THE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Women's Voice ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
- Who funds COALITIONS FOR AMERICA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Mywirelessorg · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · The Concord Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Center for a Free Economy Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 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.