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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.

$803k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$468k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$1.1MPhilanthropy$955kPublic Benefit$830kArts & Culture$375kSocial Science$50k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
  • $250k+1 grant · $468k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$966k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Patriot Voices: $50k → 6%PATRIOT VOICES: $40k → 6%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

NH
WI
MA
PA
VA
KS
DC
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 5 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$1.8M
$932k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-24%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 BenefitEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureSocial ScienceHuman 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

  • SF
    State Financial Officers Foundation Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +212%
  • SF
    State Freedom Caucus Foundation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $210k · revenue +201%
  • PV
    PATRIOT VOICES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FR
    FOX ROCK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -100%
  • CW
    CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +31%
  • TF
    Tholos Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $112k · revenue -32%
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
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
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
3
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
4
Foreign Policy for America

Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.

—
5
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
6
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…

—
7
Government Integrity Fund

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

—
8
Senate Opportunity Fund

Advance Conservative Solutions Through Research And Communication On Public Policy Issues.

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9
State Policy Institute

To promote pro-growth, progressive policy at the state level.

—
10
Cato Institute

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.

Public Benefit
11
Foundation for Public Affairs

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…

Public Benefit
12
America First Legal Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Conservative Union Foundationinc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

State Financial Officers Foundation Inc: $1,085,000 · EducationState Financial Officers Foundation I…FOX ROCK FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyFOX ROCK FOUNDATIONBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $455,000 · PhilanthropyBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INCState Freedom Caucus Foundation: $210,000 · Public BenefitState Freedom Caucus…CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA: $150,000 · Public BenefitCONCERNED WOMEN FOR …PINE TREE PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Public BenefitPINE TREE PUBLIC POL…AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $78,500 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE…LUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 · Public BenefitLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE…CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY: $375,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR L…Tholos Foundation: $111,500 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $20,000 · OtherPATRIOT VOICES INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC: $50,000 · Social Science
Education$1,085,000Philanthropy$955,000Public Benefit$608,500Arts & Culture$375,000Other$131,500Human Services$90,000Social Science$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetState Financial Officers Foundation Inc: $1,085,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetFOX ROCK FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $455,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY: $375,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetState Freedom Caucus Foundation: $210,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA: $150,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTholos Foundation: $111,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPINE TREE PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetPATRIOT VOICES INC: $90,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $78,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 IncThe Lynde and Harry B…The 85 FundNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donors Trust IncVA21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Consumers' Research Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Consumers' Research Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%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
    2get 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Consumers' Research Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Consumers' Research Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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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