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Ending Spending Inc

Ending spending promotes public policies, increases government transparency and accountability, and promotes fiscal discipline.

$205k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.4MSocial Science$115kEducation$100kCommunity Improvement$50kHuman Services$25kCivil Rights$25k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $200,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $205,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FIRST WORKS INC$100,000
REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION$35,000
SENATE OPPORTUNITY FUND$25,000
THE BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY$25,000
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH$15,000
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 (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND: $25k → 14%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

MI
NY
MA
WY
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$190k · 3 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
15

Total granted

$190k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24
Public BenefitSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TB
    The Becket Fund
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +135%
  • MI
    MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +26%
  • HI
    Hudson Institute Inc
    2× · 2019–2023 · $35k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • CS
    COMMON SENSE LEADERSHIP FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -34%
  • AR
    AMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • CT
    Committee to Protect Voters Rights
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -86%
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
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

—
4
Center for Campaign Innovation

Conduct research and training to guide conservatives through the digital transformation of politics and advocating for the increased adoption of digital communications technology by candidates and elected officials.

—
5
Foreign Policy for America

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

—
6
Common Sense Policy Institute

The Common Sense Policy Institute works to inform the American public of dysfunction in the government by identifying government waste, fraud, and abuse through engaging in nonpartisan analysis, study, and research relating to government…

Public Benefit
7
The American Conservative

The american conservative exists to promote a "main street" conservatism that opposes unchecked power in government and business; promote the flourishing of families and communities through vibrant markets and free people; and embrace…

Arts & Culture
8
Election Watch Inc

Research analyze publish information to public on elections election systems laws and campaign financing.

Civil Rights
9
Conservative Policy Council Fund

To advance policies that promote limited government, support economic growth and business, and seek strong international relationships that enhance American national security and trade objectives.

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10
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
11
RepresentUs

RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…

Public Benefit
12
The Center for Election Innovation & Research

CEIR seeks to restore trust in the American election system and promote election procedures that encourage participation while ensuring election integrity and security.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Review Institute; the most unlike its peers is Committee to Protect Voters Rights. 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

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMON SENSE LEADERSHIP FUND INC: $750,000 · OtherCOMMON SENSE LEADERSHIP FUND INCAMERICA FIRST WORKS INC: $100,000 · OtherAMERICA FIRST WORKS INCCommittee to Protect Voters Rights: $100,000 · OtherCommittee to Protect Voters RightsWINNING FOR WOMEN INC: $50,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY MATTERS NETWORK INC: $50,000 · OtherHardworking Georgians Inc: $50,000 · Other+6 more: $142,500 · Other+6 moreMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $55,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN …WOMEN WINNING: $50,000 · Public BenefitWOMEN WINN…UNLEASH PROSPERITY INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitUNLEASH PR…The Becket Fund: $100,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT: $100,000 · EducationFAIR LINES AMERICA INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementRULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE JACK KEMP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,242,500Public Benefit$155,000Social Science$110,000Education$100,000Community Improvement$50,000Human Services$25,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMON SENSE LEADERSHIP FUND INC: $750,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCommittee to Protect Voters Rights: $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINNING FOR WOMEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFAIR LINES AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWOMEN WINNING: $50,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY MATTERS NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHardworking Georgians Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSenate Opportunity Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAR2 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10,000 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.

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.

American Action Netwo…The Concord FundPharmaceutical Resear…
American Action Network IncDC17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Action Network Inc · The Concord Fund · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to Ending Spending Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ending Spending 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 21 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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