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Centerline Liberties Inc

Centerline liberties is a 501(c)(3) organization focused on advancing policy solutions capable of defending core constitutional freedoms and liberties, preserving a free market economy, and limiting the role of government in americans' everyday lives.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
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02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Civil Rights$1.0MSocial Science$573kPublic Benefit$454kEnvironment$230k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $65,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $70,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION$50,000
CRES FORUM$15,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CONSERVATIVE CLIMATE FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%C3 SOLUTIONS: $35k → 4%R STREET INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $40k → 14%NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $100k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $30k → 14%SHARED AMERICA INC: $1.0M → 14%CENTERLINE ACTION INC: $144k → 14%AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION: $30k → 14%CRES FORUM: $15k → 14%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.
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
Cleaner Economy Coalition Inc

Driving american jobs and competitiveness by leveraging our cleaner economy and enabling u.s. manufacturers to lead in advanced energy technologies.

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2
American Common Ground Council Inc

ConservAmerica is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and advancement of market based energy, environmental, and conservation policy.

Environment
3
Climate Innovation Action Inc

To educate policymakers about climate policies generally and to directly advocate for specific legislation on climate change.

Environment
4
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
5
Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future

CCEF works with policymakers and stakeholders across the nation to promote policies that secure affordable, reliable, and increasingly efficient and clean energy. Commonsense, market-driven energy policies will create local jobs, spark…

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6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
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
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
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
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
12
Climate Parliament Inc

Researching policy ideas on climate and clean energy in India, engaging legislators and business leaders to discuss those ideas.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum; the most unlike its peers is The Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions. 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

11 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.

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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHARED AMERICA INC: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitSHARED AMERICA INCThe Rand Corporation: $572,648 · Public BenefitThe Rand Corporation+1 more: $40,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $130,000 · OtherNATIONAL GOV…NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherNATIONAL TAX…The Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions: $35,000 · OtherThe Conserva…Conservative Climate Foundation Inc: $150,000 · EnvironmentConservat…AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN …CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS FORUM: $15,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS …CENTERLINE ACTION INC: $143,500 · Civil RightsR STREET INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Education
Public Benefit$1,612,648Other$255,000Environment$195,000Civil Rights$143,500Education$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHARED AMERICA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $572,648 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConservative Climate Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCENTERLINE ACTION INC: $143,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $130,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions: $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS FORUM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Citizens for Responsi…Clean Future Forum IncDeployus IncNuclear Energy Instit…Edison Electric Insti…The Seminar Network I…The Energy FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions ForumDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum · Clean Future Forum Inc · Deployus Inc · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · Edison Electric Institute Inc · The Seminar Network Inc · The Energy Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Centerline Liberties Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Centerline Liberties Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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