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Fund for Constitutional Government
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- $212k
- Granted FY2023
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of Fund for Constitutional Government’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Charities Aid Foundation America, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Fund for Constitutional Government named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $190k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2023
- $190k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 3
- Total assets, FY2023
- $9.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Fund for Constitutional Government funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 6 | $190k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $706k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $445k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $270k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $271k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $283k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $341k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project on Government Oversight Inc | $485,972 | 7 | 2% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $402,128 | 2 | 0% |
| Government Accountability Project | $304,510 | 7 | 3% |
| Electronic Privacy Information Center | $180,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Jubilee USA Network | $147,500 | 4 | 7% |
| National Taxpayers Union Foundation | $135,000 | 3 | 6% |
| R Street Institute | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Global Financial Integrity | $115,000 | 5 | 3% |
| United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc | $95,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Taxpayers for Common Sense | $90,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 38 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Fund for Constitutional Government supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Spectemur Agendo Inc · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Skoll Fund · Institute for Nonprofit News · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc
How this is measured
Compare Fund for Constitutional Government with peer funders
About Fund for Constitutional Government
- How much does Fund for Constitutional Government give?
- Fund for Constitutional Government reported 7 itemized grants totaling $190,000, out of $212,409 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Fund for Constitutional Government fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (51%), Philanthropy (21%), International (12%).
- Who are Fund for Constitutional Government's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Project on Government Oversight Inc ($486k), NEO Philanthropy Inc ($402k), Government Accountability Project ($305k).
- Does Fund for Constitutional Government fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for Constitutional Government?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spectemur Agendo Inc, The Ford Foundation, Foundation to Promote Open Society.
- Where is Fund for Constitutional Government based?
- Fund for Constitutional Government is based in DC.
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