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Club for Growth

CLUB FOR GROWTH is a nationwide nonprofit membership organization dedicated to promoting public policies that promote economic growth primarily through legislative involvement, issue advocacy, research, and may engage in any other lawful prupose.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$500,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$530,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 5
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$8.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Club for Growth funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Community ImprovementCrime & LegalCivil 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
FY2024still arriving4$1.4M75%
FY20235$2.2M100%
FY20225$719k80%
FY20214$90kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.0MCommunity Improvement$899kCrime & Legal$80kSocial Science$45kCivil Rights$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
NV
OH
MO
VA
AZ
DC
OK
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Ron Desantis$2,000,0001n/a
Saving Texas$530,00016%
Club for Growth Action Missouri$500,0001n/a
Club for Growth Foundation Inc$399,054115%
Election Freedom Inc$380,00012%
Liberty Justice Center$80,00013%
American Conservative Union Foundationinc$75,00021%
Cnp Action Inc$35,000212%
Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee$30,00013%
Our Kids Our Future$25,00015%
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Club for Growth by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Ron Desantis$2,000,0001n/a
Saving Texas$530,00016%
Club for Growth Action Missouri$500,0001n/a
Club for Growth Foundation Inc$399,054115%
Election Freedom Inc$380,00012%
Liberty Justice Center$80,00013%
American Conservative Union Foundationinc$75,00021%
Cnp Action Inc$35,000212%
Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee$30,00013%
Our Kids Our Future$25,00015%
Defend Alaska Elections$15,0001n/a
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies$15,00010%
Council for National Policy$15,00010%
National Tax Limitation Coalition$10,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($300k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Club for Growth supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaving Texas: $530,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetClub for Growth Foundation Inc: $399,054 over 1y, 15% of budgetElection Freedom Inc: $380,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLiberty Justice Center: $80,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAmerican Conservative Union Foundationinc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCnp Action Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetConcerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOur Kids Our Future: $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil for National Policy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 10.

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.

Donors Trust IncVA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · 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.

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About Club for Growth

How much does Club for Growth give?
Club for Growth reported 4 itemized grants totaling $1,430,000, out of $1,640,883 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Club for Growth fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (69%), Community Improvement (20%), Crime & Legal (2%).
Who are Club for Growth's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Friends of Ron Desantis ($2.0M), Saving Texas ($530k), Club for Growth Action Missouri ($500k).
Does Club for Growth fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Club for Growth?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Club for Growth based?
Club for Growth is based in DC.

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 16 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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