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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$530k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $1,430,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,640,883 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $210,883 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$500,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVING TEXAS$530,000
CLUB FOR GROWTH ACTION - MISSOURI FEDERAL COMMITTEE$500,000
ELECTION FREEDOM INC$380,000
CNP ACTION INC$20,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUR KIDS OUR FUTURE: $25k → 11%NATIONAL TAX LIMITATION COALITION: $10k → 14%CNP ACTION INC: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF RON DESANTIS: $2.0M → 13%STACK PAC: $50k → 13%CLUB FOR GROWTH ACTION - MISSOURI FEDERAL COMMITTEE: $500k → 11%ELECTION FREEDOM INC: $380k → 15%DEFEND ALASKA ELECTIONS: $15k → 22%LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER: $80k → 14%SAVING TEXAS: $530k → 6%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION: $45k → 9%CNP ACTION INC: $15k → 14%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%CNP ACTION INC: $15k → 14%CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA - LEGISLATIVE ACTION COMMITTEE: $30k → 9%CLUB FOR GROWTH FOUNDATION: $399k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
NV
OH
MO
VA
AZ
DC
OK
AL
FL
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
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
2
Just Foreign Policy

The organization is an independent and non-partisan membership organization dedicated to reforming u.s. foreign policy through coordinating the broad majority of americans to advocate their interests and values.

International
3
Citizen Awareness Project Inc

Citizen Awareness Project exists to educate citizens and public officials on issues of public policy and to give them the tools necessary to make a difference in their community on issues affecting the public at large. Specifically, it…

Civil Rights
4
Protecting Liberty Justice and Freedom

Organized for the purpose to engage in activities and promote public policies that protect individual liberties and argue for greater government accountability and transparency.

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5
Council for Citizens Against Government Waste

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

Public Benefit
6
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
7
Consumer Choice Center

Consumer choice center is an independent, non-partisan consumer advocacy group championing the benefits of freedom of choice, innovation, and abundance in everyday life.

Public Benefit
8
Individual Liberties Alliance

The organization engages in activities and promote public policies that increase individual freedom and accountable government.

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9
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
10
Election Watch Inc

Research analyze publish information to public on elections election systems laws and campaign financing.

Civil Rights
11
Issue One

Issue one is the leading crosspartisan political reform organization that educates the public, engages capitol hill, and advocates for solutions to fix our broken political system.

Public Benefit
12
Congressional Progressive Caucus Center

CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER identifies and develops research-based, people-led solutions to build a more just, equitable, and resilient nation. Through educational programming and policy analysis, we bring together community…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Conservative Union Foundationinc; the most unlike its peers is Our Kids Our Future. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF RON DESANTIS: $2,000,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF RON DESANTISClub for Growth Action Missouri: $500,000 · OtherClub for Growth Action MissouriElection Freedom Inc: $380,000 · OtherElection Freedom IncIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+6 more: $155,000 · OtherSAVING TEXAS: $530,000 · Civil RightsSAVING TEXASOur Kids Our Future: $25,000 · Civil RightsCLUB FOR GROWTH FOUNDATION INC: $399,054 · Community ImprovementCLUB FOR G…LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER: $80,000 · Crime & LegalAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC: $75,000 · Social ScienceCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Other$3,285,000Civil Rights$555,000Community Improvement$399,054Crime & Legal$80,000Social Science$75,000Public Benefit$15,000

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

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
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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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 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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