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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

$341k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192023.

Public Benefit$506kPhilanthropy$175kCivil Rights$70k
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $290k
$115,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONORS TRUST$175,000
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION$115,000
INDEPENDENT WOMENS VOICE$25,000
AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM$25,000
02The need
03

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 (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.

area typical 11%AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM: $50k → 14%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $35k → 19%DONORS TRUST: $175k → 9%INDEPENDENT WOMENS VOICE: $25k → 16%AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM: $25k → 14%60 PLUS ASSOCIATION: $70k → 9%INDEPENDENT WOMENS VOICE: $5k → 16%AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM: $25k → 14%COALITIONS FOR AMERICA: $1k → 9%AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM: $25k → 14%AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM: $25k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $115k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $95k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $25k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $25k → 14%CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $15k → 14%CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$470k · 5 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$470k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-27%
+48%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • NT
    NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $210k · revenue +24%
  • AF
    Americans for Tax Reform
    5× · 2019–2023 · $150k · revenue -69%
  • NT
    NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue -27%

Funded once

  • T6
    THE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +483%
  • TJ
    THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +48%
  • CF
    COALITIONS FOR AMERICA
    one 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.

04Your 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.

1
Council for National Policy

To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.

Public Benefit
2
California Taxpayers Association

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…

3
The American Assembly

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

4
Council for Citizens Against Government Waste

Conduct nonpartisan public education programs, lobbying activities, attempt to influence legislation and programs involving government waste.

Public Benefit
5
Florida Taxwatch Research Institute Inc

To provide citizens with independent research on government fiscal policy and to promote the most efficient use of taxpayer dollars

6
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
7
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
8
Taxpayers for Common Sense

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…

Public Benefit
9
Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois

Research and recommendations on tax and spending issues

Community Improvement
10
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
11
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

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…

Public Benefit
12
People's Independent Commission

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION — $210,000 · OtherNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATIONAmericans for Tax Reform — $150,000 · OtherAmericans for Tax ReformTHE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INC — $70,000 · OtherTHE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INCNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION — $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNIONTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $35,000 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INCCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE — $30,000 · OtherCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE+1 more — $1,000 · OtherCANDID — $175,000 · PhilanthropyCANDIDIndependent Women's Voice — $30,000 · Civil Rights
Other$546,000Philanthropy$175,000Civil Rights$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCANDID — $175,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmericans for Tax Reform — $150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION INC — $70,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetIndependent Women's Voice — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOALITIONS FOR AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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