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DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER
Dedicated to defending america's democratic norms, values, and institutions and fighting for consistent conservative principles like rule of law, free trade, and expanding legal immigration.
$3.7M
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
1
Communities
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
increaseturnouteducatecivic
2021
action
2022
published
2023
pacwe'veoutvoicepublishedleadership
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.6M
$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
- REPUBLICAN ACCOUNTABILITY PAC INC$3,000,000
- PRINCIPLES FIRST FOR AMERICA LTD$300,000
- C & B GROUP$300,000
- THE LIBERAL PATRIOT INC$100,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 82% of DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 18% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHERlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 7 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
10
Total granted
$12M
$11M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+35%
+255%
Still filing today
57%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Civil RightsEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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
- WIWORKMONEY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $5.2M · revenue +397%
- CBC & B GROUP3× · 2022–2024 · $613k · revenue +0% · 100% of their budget
- MWMORMON WOMEN FOR ETHICAL GOVERNMENT2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +721% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- RVREPUBLICAN VOTERS AGAINST TRUMP INCone grant, 2020 · $6.6M
- PTPIZZA TO THE POLLSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2.3M · revenue +3866%
- DDDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +16758% · 35% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Democracy Works Inc
Improving civic participation by simplifying and modernizing the voting process for voters and election administrators.
Civil Rights
2
Defending Democracy Together
Dedicated to defending america's democratic norms, values, and institutions and fighting for consistent conservative principles like rule of law, free trade, and expanding legal immigration.
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3
National Popular Vote
To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States
Public Benefit
4
Commission On Presidential Debates
Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates
Civil Rights
5
Principles First for America
We are a nationwide organization of conservative americans who share a love of american democracy. we believe good-faith americans should support principled leadership, and we seek to educate on principled and conservative democratic…
Civil Rights
6
America's Newspapers
To represent, promote and advance the interest of those in the newspaper industry
Employment
7
Society for the Rule of Law and
Provide a forum committed to advancing constitutional principles, democracy, legal norms, and the rule of law in the united states.
Education
8
Register America
Assist with voter registration & advocate for policies to increase u.s. voter registration.
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The Liberal Patriot Inc
The liberal patriot (tlp) is a digital newsletter focused on american politics and public policy. tlp aims to provide readers with honest analysis and original commentary to help advance a vital center perspective in american life.
Civil Rights
10
Fair Democracy
Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…
Civil Rights
11
Center Action Now
Center action now (can) is committed to rebuilding the political center and uniting all americans around shared values and a pragmatic approach to policy and politics. can educates americans on how to participate in politics in a strategic…
Public Benefit
12
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Principles First for America Ltd and the most unlike its peers is Stand Up Republic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$18,716,760Civil Rights$2,850,000Education$1,000,000Environment$500,000Human Services$35,000
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 WORKMONEY INC ↗
- Who funds PIZZA TO THE POLLS ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds C & B GROUP ↗
- Who funds PRINCIPLES FIRST FOR AMERICA LTD ↗
- Who funds SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ↗
- Who funds KEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds VOTEAMERICA ↗
- Who funds SWAMP ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE LIBERAL PATRIOT INC ↗
- Who funds MORMON WOMEN FOR ETHICAL GOVERNMENT ↗
- Who funds STAND UP REPUBLIC 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
New Venture FundDC14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: New Venture Fund
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 organisation DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: C & B GROUP.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~30 months of operating runway; revenue held over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 833837181 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on C & B GROUP, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 30 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Defending Democracy Together?
Find your warmest path to Defending Democracy Together through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines