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Defense Against Thought Control Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$759k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$3.2MArts & Culture$557kCrime & Legal$462kEnvironment$410kEducation$282kHousing & Shelter$132kHuman Services$122kPublic Benefit$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $450k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD$125,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION$75,000
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER$50,000
REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH$50,000
SURVIVORS INC$50,000
NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NAACP$30,000
GREENPEACE$25,000
FREE SPEECH TV$20,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$20,000
FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE$20,000
FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING$20,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$20,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND$20,000
NAACP LEGAL DEFENCE FUND$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ROSENBURG FUND FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%Freedom of Press Foundation: $10k → 10%Rosenburg Fund For Children: $2k → 12%FREEDOM OF PRESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ROSENBURG FUND FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ROSENBURG FUND FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%FREEDOM OF PRESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ROSENBURG FUND FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%Freedom of Press Foundation: $10k → 10%Rosenburg Fund For Children: $2k → 12%Freedom of Press Foundation: $10k → 10%Rosenburg Fund For Children: $2k → 12%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%Mass Housing & Shelter Alliance: $10k → 16%Mass Housing & Shelter Alliance: $10k → 16%Mass Housing & Shelter Alliance: $10k → 16%MASS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%MASS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%MASS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%MASS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%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

ME
NH
MN
NY
MA
SD
CA
CO
MO
VA
NM
NC
DC
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 53 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
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Total granted

$6.1M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+79%

Still filing today

70%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NL
    NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $575k · revenue +125% · 45% of their budget
  • WS
    WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $525k · revenue +12% · 48% of their budget
  • HR
    Human Rights Defense Center Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $350k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UF
    UNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +29%
  • OM
    Open Media Engagement Network
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +79%
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
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
4
American Coalition for Public Radio

The american coalition for public radio supports the educational mission of publicly funded, noncommercial radio stations, networks, and systems (collectively, "public radio").

Arts & Culture
5
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. supports national public radio, inc.'s international news-gathering activities through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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6
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
7
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
8
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
9
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
10
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Open Technology Fund

The open technology fund aims to advance internet freedom globally by supporting the research, development, implementation, and maintenance of technologies that provide secure and uncensored access to the internet.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resist Inc; the most unlike its peers is Western States Legal 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

41 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. 41 of the 58 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
28/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $525,000 · OtherWESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATIONHuman Rights Defense Center Inc: $350,000 · OtherHuman Rights Defense Center IncGREENPEACE INC: $315,000 · OtherGREENPEACE INCIndividual grant recipient: $275,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Intercept First Look Media Works: $202,000 · OtherThe Intercept First Look Media WorksNORTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NAACP: $130,000 · OtherSURVIVORS INC: $125,000 · Other+33 more: $1,227,000 · Other+33 moreFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC: $1,520,000 · Civil RightsFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INCNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER INC: $575,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTE…NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $90,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $70,000 · Civil RightsCatching the Dream: $70,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $50,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $35,000 · EducationDAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $35,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $70,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesFAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC: $130,000 · Community Improvement350ORG: $120,000 · EnvironmentEducation For Just Peace in Middle East: $60,000 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $15,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · International
Other$3,149,000Civil Rights$2,355,000Education$220,000Human Services$154,000Community Improvement$130,000Environment$120,000International$76,000

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 budgetFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC: $1,520,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER INC: $575,000 over 7y, 45% of budgetWESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 7y, 48% of budgetHuman Rights Defense Center Inc: $350,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $315,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetFAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC: $130,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetSURVIVORS INC: $125,000 over 3y, 72% of budget350ORG: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $100,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRESIST INC: $100,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $90,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCatching the Dream: $70,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetFREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR BLACK STRUGGLE: $70,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetEducation For Just Peace in Middle East: $60,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC: $57,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFOUR CORNERS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $35,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMASSCREATIVE INC: $14,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetURBAN REVIVAL INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAGITARTE INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA FAR CRY INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Human Rights Defense Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC ↗
  • Who funds SURVIVORS INC ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds RESIST INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Catching the Dream ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR BLACK STRUGGLE ↗
  • Who funds Education For Just Peace in Middle East ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC ↗
  • Who funds Repairers of the Breach ↗
  • Who funds FOUR CORNERS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA18.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The New World Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Defense Against Thought Control Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Defense Against Thought Control Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Masscreative Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • A Far Cry Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 58 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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