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First Liberty Institute
FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE provides pro bono legal services to advance and defend religious liberty for individuals, churches, and other ministries and organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY POLICY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY | $36,500 |
| JAMES WILSON INSTITUTE | $28,418 |
| US SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN LAW MAKERS | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY6× · 2020–2025 · $154k · revenue +36%
- FPFAMILY POLICY ALLIANCE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +112%
- RORULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND2× · 2022–2023 · $65k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- TFTHE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +40%
- BXBENEDICT XVI INSTITUTE FOR SACRED MUSIC AND DIVINE WORSHIPone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The objectives and goals of the institute shall be to receive and administer funds for the purpose of providing and supporting educational programs for lawyers, legal academics, and members of the judiciary, conferences and publications…
The council was formed as a vehicle for collective consultation and as a conduit for the exchange of ideas on court administration, rules and methods of procedure, and the organization and operation of state courts of appeal. the council…
Americans united for separation of church and state is a nonpartisan educational and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the separation of religion and government as the only way to ensure freedom of religion, including the right…
To engage military leaders in biblical fellowship and growth to equip them for christ-like service at the intersection of faith, family and profession.
To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
To be a state-focused, biblical organization that could tactfully address issues of life, religious freedom, educational opportunity, Gods design, human dignity, free speech, and principled government.
The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
To prepare principled leaders for faith-informed public service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Policy Alliance Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES WILSON INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN FOUNDING ↗
- Who funds FAMILY POLICY ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN LAWMAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization First Liberty Institute 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.
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 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.