· Private foundation
Frederick Bornman Trust for Conservative
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL FOUNDATION | $10,447 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,447 |
| ACCURACY IN ACADEMIA | $10,447 |
| EAGLE FORUM & LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $10,447 |
| ACCURACY IN MEDIA | $10,447 |
| AMERICAS FUTURE INC | $5,235 |
| EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $5,212 |
| THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI | $5,212 |
| AMERICAS FUTURE FOUNDATION | $5,212 |
| HANOVER REVIEW INC | $5,212 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 56% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +63% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +63%- AIACCURACY IN MEDIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +375%
- AFAMERICAS FUTURE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue ×42
Funded once
- AFAmerica's Future Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue +81%
- TETHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSIone grant, 2025 · $5k
- HRHANOVER REVIEW INCone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 American Spectator Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan media organization responsible for publishing The American Spectator. Through its editorial programs, The American Spectator strives to educate the public on new ideas,…
Promote competition that protects consumers, businesses, and society.
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…
To publish a periodical in online, digital, print, and/or other formats, available to a general audience, with original scholarly content matters of educational, literacy, and civil importance: to support and promote the conduct and…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
Inform the public by providing news
Aaf is dedicated to broad public education on domestic and economic issues, using modern communication tools to engage the public and propose policy solutions. it engages in policy research based on data and provides commentary on domestic…
Public education on contemporary social issues and protection of the 1st amendment of the U.S. constitution.
Aspires to help Americans think a little more clearly about the challenges of governing ourselves. To publish essays about public policy, society, culture, politics and the world of ideas, with an eye to what a responsible and thoughtful…
The Association for the New Century Inc aims to contribute to public awareness of a range of economic and international relations issues while contributing to public debate about national strategy.
The center is a non-partisan public policy institution established by former president richard nixon. its current programs focus on energy, security, climate change and u.s. relations with china, japan, russia and the middle east.
To inform and educate the American public on issues of national security and advocate for a strong national foreign policy that best serves the interests of the United States.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hanover Review Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 ACCURACY IN ACADEMIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds America's Future Foundation ↗
- Who funds HANOVER REVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION & RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Frederick Bornman Trust for Conservative 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.