· Private foundation
Foundation for Individual Liberty
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BARNES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE OBJECTIVIST CENTER LTD DBA THE ATLAS SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $50,000 |
| INDEPENDENT CENTERELECTION CFO | $25,000 |
| THE BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY | $25,000 |
| FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FOUNDING FORWARD | $15,000 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES | $10,000 |
| STATE POLICY NETWORK | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC | $10,000 |
| THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES | $8,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 7 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE REASON FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $568k · revenue +89%
- TBThe Becket Fund7× · 2018–2024 · $142k · revenue +81%
- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2022 · $90k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- MFMPT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +22%
- TUTHE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +85%
- ALABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION - HERITAGE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2020 · $60k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 83 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.
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 THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds MPT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE ↗
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 Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Abele Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Connelly Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Rittenhouse Foundation · The Azeez Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Leroy E Kean Family Foundation · Susquehanna Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Foundation for Individual Liberty funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Individual Liberty. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Wetlands Institute: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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