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First Amendment Partnership at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

First Amendment Partnership

To promote and protect religious freedom for people of all faiths.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$97kArts & Culture$47kReligion$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kEducation$21kPublic Benefit$10kSocial Science$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEYMOUR INSTITUTE$15,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%SEYMOUR INSTITUTE: $15k → 16%RELIGION NEWSWRITERS ASSOCIATION: $12k → 20%THE ASPEN INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%GREATER GRAND RAPIDS CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AND CAMPAIGN INC: $15k → 13%University of Illinois: $30k → 19%AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC: $10k → 6%WYOMING EQUALITY: $10k → 10%SEYMOUR INSTITUTE: $8k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $21k → 19%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
MO
VA
AZ
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$129k · 4 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +127% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$129k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+127%
0%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationArts & CultureSocial ScienceRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +127%
  • RN
    RELIGION NEWS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +61%
  • RN
    RELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $25k · revenue ×21

Funded once

  • EA
    Equality Arizona Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -77%
  • AC
    AND Campaign Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +7% · 52% of their budget
  • GG
    Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
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.

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Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues

Funders for lgbtq issues work to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at enhancing the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, promoting equity, and advancing racial, economic and…

Civil Rights
2
Equality Federation Institute

Equality federation institute is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.

Civil Rights
3
Lgbtq Victory Institute Inc

LGBTQ Victory Institute works to achieve and sustain equality through leadership development, trainings, research and convenings. We work around the globe to increase the number, expand the diversity, and ensure the success of out LGBTQ+…

Civil Rights
4
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
5
Lgbtq Leaders in Higher Education

Education and civic services

Community Improvement
6
National Lgbtq Task Force Action Fund Inc

National lgbtq task force action fund, founded in 1974 as the national gay and lesbian task force, inc., works to build the grassroots political power of the lgbt community to win complete equality. we do this through direct and grassroots…

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7
Equality Federation

Equality federation is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.

Civil Rights
8
Eqtx Equality Texas Foundation

EQTX Equality Texas Foundation works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans through education, community organizing, and collaboration.

Civil Rights
9
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.

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10
Freedom for All Americans Education Fund

The freedom for all americans education fund is dedicated to increasing public awareness around the urgent need for full nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people nationwide. our work brings together…

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11
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
12
Global Philanthropy Project Inc

Global Philanthropy Project (GPP or the Organization) is a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Religion News Foundation; the most unlike its peers is And Campaign Inc. 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

11 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Equality Arizona Foundation: $25,000 · OtherEquality Arizona FoundationAND Campaign Inc: $15,000 · OtherAND Campaign IncGreater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation: $10,000 · OtherGreater Grand Rapids Chamber …AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN UNITY FUND INCUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $50,200 · EducationUniversity of Illinois F…RELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION: $25,175 · ReligionRELIGION NEWS FOUNDATIO…THE WILLIAM J SEYMOUR INSTITUTE FOR BLACK CHURCH AND POLICY STUDIES INC: $22,500 · ReligionTHE WILLIAM J SEYMOUR I…RELIGION NEWS ASSOCIATION: $31,500 · Arts & CultureRELIGION NEWS A…ONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterONE COMMUNIT…UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Social Science
Other$60,000Education$50,200Religion$47,675Arts & Culture$31,500Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Social Science$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $50,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRELIGION NEWS ASSOCIATION: $31,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetRELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION: $25,175 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetEquality Arizona Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE WILLIAM J SEYMOUR INSTITUTE FOR BLACK CHURCH AND POLICY STUDIES INC: $22,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetAND Campaign Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetGreater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN UNITY FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization First Amendment Partnership funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Amendment Partnership. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 First Amendment Partnership?

    Find your warmest path to First Amendment Partnership 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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