· Public charity
Defending Democracy Together Institute
To elevate and assemble pro-democracy voices in an effort to educate the public about the essential function and value of american democracy and to encourage innovative thinking about how to solve the emerging challenges facing america.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k5 grants · $525k
- $250k+5 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE | $12,150,000 |
| THE LIBERAL PATRIOT INC | $1,000,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE RULE OF LAW & DEMOCRACY | $500,000 |
| PRINCIPLES FIRST FOR AMERICA FOUNDATION INC | $400,000 |
| ETERNAL VIGILANCE ACTION | $315,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| MORMON WOMEN FOR ETHICAL GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT INC | $100,000 |
| DEMOCRACY A JOURNAL OF IDEAS INC | $75,000 |
| CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LIBERAL PATRIOT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2.3M · revenue -78% · 93% of their budget
- SFSOCIETY FOR THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $950k · 86% of their budget
- PFPRINCIPLES FIRST FOR AMERICA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $800k · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- GFGood Faith Network Incone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -29%
- CFCenter for a New American Security Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +50%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBERAL PATRIOT INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCIPLES FIRST FOR AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eternal Vigilance Action Inc ↗
- Who funds Mormon Women For Ethical Government Foun dation ↗
- Who funds Good Faith Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for a New American Security Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY A JOURNAL OF IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Defending Democracy Together Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Defending Democracy Together Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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