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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
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$115,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$175,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$1.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Center for a Free Economy Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20234$340k25%
FY20225$161k80%
FY20212$40k0%
FY20202$75k0%
FY20194$135kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Public Benefit$506kPhilanthropy$175kCivil Rights$70k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Taxpayers Union Foundation$210,00024%
Candid$175,00010%
Americans for Tax Reform$150,00050%
The 60 Plus Association Inc$70,00017%
National Taxpayers Union$50,00020%
The James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies Inc$35,00012%
Citizens Against Government Waste$30,00021%
Independent Women's Voice$30,00021%
Coalitions for America$1,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Center for a Free Economy Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCitizens Against Government Waste: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIndependent Women's Voice: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCoalitions for America: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pharmaceutical Resear…MywirelessorgNcta - the Internet &…The Concord Fund
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Center for a Free Economy Inc

How much does Center for a Free Economy Inc give?
Center for a Free Economy Inc reported 4 grants totaling $341,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Center for a Free Economy Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (67%), Philanthropy (23%), Civil Rights (9%).
Who are Center for a Free Economy Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: National Taxpayers Union Foundation ($210k), Candid ($175k), Americans for Tax Reform ($150k).
Does Center for a Free Economy Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Center for a Free Economy Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Mywirelessorg, Ncta - the Internet & Television Association.
Where is Center for a Free Economy Inc based?
Center for a Free Economy Inc is based in VA.

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 9 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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