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Conservative Partnership Institute

The Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) is dedicated to providing a platform for citizen leaders, the conservative movement, Members of Congress, congressional staff and scholars to be connected.

$8.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$6.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$13MCrime & Legal$4.6MCivil Rights$1.0MAnimals$350kEducation$289kArts & Culture$175kInternational$100k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $384k
  • $250k+5 grants · $8.0M
$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fund$6,042,000
Personnel Policy Operations Inc$1,075,000
Hunter Nation Foundation Inc$350,000
Edmund Burke Foundation$255,000
State Leadership Foundation$250,000
Green Dragon Society$200,000
Conservative Partnership International Inc$100,000
American Moment Inc$84,000
America First Legal Foundation$35,000
American Accountability Foundation$25,000
Capitol Hill Christian Academy$20,000
Best in Ed Inc$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Edmund Burke Foundation: $255k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Conservative Partnership Institute’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 0%.

Conservative Partnership Institutelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 11 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +176% since the first grant, against +65% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$16M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+176%
+65%

Still filing today

82%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitEducationCrime & LegalCivil RightsAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PP
    Personnel Policy Operations Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +217% · 80% of their budget
  • CF
    Center for Renewing America Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +553% · 56% of their budget
  • AF
    America First Legal Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +401%

Funded once

  • AV
    American Voting Rights Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • FM
    FDRLST MEDIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $175k · revenue -19%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $161k · revenue +131%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
2
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Policy Innovation

It is the mission of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) to provide education, research, analysis and recommendations to policy makers, opinion leaders and the American people designed to help solve public policy problems through…

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4
Pax Americana Institute Inc
Education
5
Center for Campaign Innovation

Conduct research and training to guide conservatives through the digital transformation of politics and advocating for the increased adoption of digital communications technology by candidates and elected officials.

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6
Government Integrity Fund

To Conduct research and educate the public about various policy issues across the United States.

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7
American Exceptionalism Institute

The organization engaged in public communications and issue education activities related to national security, the protection of life, and tax and spending issues.

Community Improvement
8
Election Watch Inc

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

Civil Rights
9
Institute for Research on Presidential Elections

To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States by providing objectively-determined information, data, analyses, and studies aimed at improving

Civil Rights
10
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

—
11
Common Sense Policy Institute

The Common Sense Policy Institute works to inform the American public of dysfunction in the government by identifying government waste, fraud, and abuse through engaging in nonpartisan analysis, study, and research relating to government…

Public Benefit
12
Conservative Partnership Institute

The Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) is dedicated to providing a platform for citizen leaders, the conservative movement, Members of Congress, congressional staff and scholars to be connected. The Organization works to provide…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Accountability Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Fdrlst Media Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 25 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fund: $6,837,000 · Public BenefitFoundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections FundCenter for Renewing America Inc: $1,940,701 · Public BenefitCenter for Renewing America IncState Freedom Caucus Foundation: $1,032,248 · Public BenefitState Freedom Caucus FoundationAMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION: $570,100 · Public BenefitVIRGINIA INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $505,000 · Public BenefitAmerican Moment Inc: $448,000 · Public Benefit+4 more: $725,000 · Public Benefit+4 morePersonnel Policy Operations Inc: $3,105,005 · Civil RightsPersonnel Policy O…American Voting Rights Foundation: $1,005,000 · OtherAmerican …Election Integrity Action Inc: $545,000 · OtherElection …+5 more: $75,505 · OtherAmerica First Legal Foundation: $1,409,403 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Crime & LegalHUNTER NATION FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · AnimalsEdmund Burke Foundation Inc: $255,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $160,950 · EducationAMERICAN MAIN STREET INITIATIVE INC: $88,500 · EducationCONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 · International
Public Benefit$12,058,049Civil Rights$3,105,005Other$1,625,505Crime & Legal$1,459,403Animals$350,000Human Services$255,000Education$249,450International$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPersonnel Policy Operations Inc: $3,105,005 over 3y, 80% of budgetCenter for Renewing America Inc: $1,940,701 over 3y, 56% of budgetAmerica First Legal Foundation: $1,409,403 over 4y, 21% of budgetState Freedom Caucus Foundation: $1,032,248 over 2y, 75% of budgetAMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION: $570,100 over 3y, 61% of budgetElection Integrity Action Inc: $545,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetVIRGINIA INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $505,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetAmerican Moment Inc: $448,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetHUNTER NATION FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetEdmund Burke Foundation Inc: $255,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetState Leadership Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetGREEN DRAGON SOCIETY: $200,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFDRLST MEDIA FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $160,950 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZEN FOCUSED SERVICE: $100,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetAMERICAN MAIN STREET INITIATIVE INC: $88,500 over 1y, 98% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCenterInstitute for legislative analysis inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% 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.

Donors Trust IncBradley Impact Fund I…Servant FoundationThe Dunn FoundationThe Rydin FoundationThe Randolph Foundati…The Leandro P Rizzuto…AEL Family Foundation…The Heritage Foundati…Thomas D Klingenstein…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Triad Foundation Inc
Donors Trust IncVA33× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Servant Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · The Rydin Foundation · The Randolph Foundation · The Leandro P Rizzuto Foundation · AEL Family Foundation Inc · The Heritage Foundation · Thomas D Klingenstein Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Triad Foundation Inc

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 Conservative Partnership Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Conservative Partnership Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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, FY20–24
    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 25 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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