· Public charity
Consumers' Research Inc
Consumers' research is an independent educational organization whose mission is to increase the knowledge and understanding of issues, policies, products and services of concern to consumers and to promote the freedom to act on that knowledge and understanding.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
- $250k+1 grant · $468k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STATE FINANCIAL OFFICERS FOUNDATION | $467,500 |
| CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY | $125,000 |
| STATE FREEDOM CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LUCY BURNS INSTITUTE | $70,000 |
| PATRIOT VOICES | $40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SFState Financial Officers Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +212%
- SFState Freedom Caucus Foundation2× · 2022–2024 · $210k · revenue +201%
- PVPATRIOT VOICES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- FRFOX ROCK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -100%
- CWCONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +31%
- TFTholos Foundationone grant, 2022 · $112k · revenue -32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.
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…
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…
To Conduct research and educate the public about various policy issues across the United States.
Advance Conservative Solutions Through Research And Communication On Public Policy Issues.
To promote pro-growth, progressive policy at the state level.
The mission of the cato institute is to keep the principles, ideas, and moral case for liberty alive for future generations, while moving public policy in the direction of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.
Our mission is to conduct and support research on issues and trends that affect the practice of public affairs and organizations' ability to thrive in a dynamic business environment. Our research provides actionable intelligence on…
America First Legal Foundation's mission is to provide the conservative movement with the litigation tools, tactics, resources, and strategies to help make it successful in advancing conservative policy solutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Conservative Union Foundationinc and the most unlike its peers is Fox Rock Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds State Financial Officers Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOX ROCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY ↗
- Who funds State Freedom Caucus Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Tholos Foundation ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The 85 Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Consumers' Research Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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