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Fund for Constitutional Government

Fcg is a hub for dynamic projects promoting democracy, government and corporate transparency, fair economies, and the fights against corruption and climate change.

$212k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

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

9
’17
15
’18
11
’19
10
’20
7
’21
10
’22
6
’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$1.5MPhilanthropy$607kInternational$358kCivil Rights$216kArts & Culture$95kScience & Tech$77kEducation$35kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $190,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $212,409 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,409 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
R STREET INSTITUTE$40,000
PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT$30,000
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT$30,000
PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT$25,000
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$25,000
INKSTICK MEDIA$20,000
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VOTE RUN LEAD: $25k → 9%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $240k → 17%FAIR COUNT: $25k → 13%US PIRG EDUCATION FUND: $95k → 12%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $205k → 9%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $162k → 17%UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 17%TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE: $50k → 14%THE NATION INSTITUTE: $23k → 17%TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE: $40k → 14%ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER: $34k → 14%ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER: $30k → 14%ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER: $30k → 14%R STREET INSTITUTE: $40k → 14%ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER: $30k → 14%R STREET INSTITUTE: $40k → 14%DAN MOLDEA: $28k → 14%ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER: $29k → 14%R STREET INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER: $29k → 14%PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT: $185k → 14%PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT: $85k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYER UNION: $65k → 14%PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT: $60k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $45k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYER UNION: $45k → 14%PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT: $44k → 14%PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT: $30k → 14%PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT: $29k → 14%PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT: $29k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYER UNION FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT: $25k → 14%JUBILEE USA NETWORK: $70k → 14%JUBILEE USA NETWORK: $48k → 14%INSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY: $35k → 14%GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRITY: $35k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $99k → 14%INSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY: $35k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $55k → 14%CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY: $30k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $34k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $30k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $30k → 14%PUSHBLACK: $25k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $29k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $29k → 14%PROTECT DEMOCRACY: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR AI AND DIGITAL POLICY: $77k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
LA
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $166k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$166k · 100% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: TI-US SUBGRANT AS PART OF THE CARNEGIE DEFENSE AND SECURITY FUNDING AGREEMENT · STROIKA SUBGRANT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF NONFICTION BOOKS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 12 repeat orgs$491k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
20

Total granted

$2.2M
$346k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureCivil RightsOther

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

  • PO
    PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $486k · revenue +17%
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $402k · revenue +17%
  • GA
    Government Accountability Project
    7× · 2017–2023 · $305k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $95k · revenue +88%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR AI AND DIGITAL POLICYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $77k · revenue +94% · 30% of their budget
  • NT
    NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
5
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
6
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
7
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

—
8
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
9
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
10
National Institute for Public Policy Inc

The institute works as a public education organization that focuses on a wide spectrum of rapidly evolving foreign policy and international issues.

—
11
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
12
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colombe Peace Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr15%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr16%58%35–55yr15%3%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,961

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
21/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC — $485,972 · Public BenefitPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INCNEO Philanthropy Inc — $402,128 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy IncGovernment Accountability Project — $304,510 · Public BenefitGovernment Accountability ProjectUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC — $95,000 · Public BenefitUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FU…TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE — $90,000 · Public BenefitTAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSEINSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY — $70,000 · Public BenefitJUBILEE USA NETWORK — $147,500 · InternationalJUBILEE USA NE…Global Financial Integrity — $115,000 · InternationalGlobal Financi…CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC — $70,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR INT…Inkstick Media Inc — $20,000 · InternationalInkstick Media…+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION — $135,000 · OtherNATIONAL TAXPA…NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION — $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL TAXPA…DAN MOLDEA — $28,000 · OtherDAN MOLDEAFAIR COUNT INC — $25,000 · OtherFAIR COUNT INCVOTE RUN LEAD INC — $25,000 · OtherVOTE RUN LEAD …TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC — $37,500 · OtherTYPE MEDIA CEN…+11 more — $63,800 · Other+11 moreELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER — $180,500 · Civil RightsELECTRONI…PUSHBLACK — $25,000 · Civil RightsPUSHBLACKPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $25,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT D…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $205,000 · PhilanthropyCOLOMBE PEACE FOUNDATION — $7,500 · PhilanthropyR STREET INSTITUTE — $125,000 · EducationUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationFAIR SHARE EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $10,000 · EducationCENTER FOR AI AND DIGITAL POLICY — $76,500 · Science & Tech
Public Benefit$1,447,610International$357,500Other$359,300Civil Rights$230,500Philanthropy$212,500Education$180,000Science & Tech$76,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC — $485,972 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $402,128 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGovernment Accountability Project — $304,510 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $205,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER — $180,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetJUBILEE USA NETWORK — $147,500 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE — $125,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGlobal Financial Integrity — $115,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC — $95,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE — $90,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AI AND DIGITAL POLICY — $76,500 over 1y, 30% of budgetINSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY — $70,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION — $45,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC — $37,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPUSHBLACK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIR COUNT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOTE RUN LEAD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInkstick Media Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLOMBE PEACE FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LENS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION — $4,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Spectemur Agendo IncThe Ford FoundationFoundation to Promote…Amalgamated Charitabl…John D and Catherine …Silicon Valley Commun…Wellspring Philanthro…New Venture FundTides FoundationSkoll FundInstitute for Nonprof…Rockefeller Family Fu…
Spectemur Agendo IncDC24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fund for Constitutional Government 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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