· Private foundation
Glacs Endowment Fund
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Glacs Endowment Fund’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Bradley Impact Fund Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Glacs Endowment Fund named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $361k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT VERITAS | $80,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| THOMAS MORE SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| INSTITUE FOR JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $25,000 |
| GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII | $25,000 |
| RIVER OF LIFE MISSION | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT | $20,000 |
| MOVING PICTURES INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER | $8,000 |
| NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ALEC | $5,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PVPROJECT VERITAS5× · 2017–2021 · $122k · revenue +158%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC5× · 2017–2021 · $117k · revenue +141%- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE5× · 2017–2021 · $66k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- AEAtlas Economic Research Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +185%
- BOBROTHERHOOD ORG OF A NEW DESTINYone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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…
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
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…
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…
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,…
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.
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.
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
Promote competition that protects consumers, businesses, and society.
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
Isd-us is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to defending democracy and individual rights against threats to public safety and national security. isd-us is at the forefront of analyzing and innovating solutions…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Atlas Economic Research Foundation ↗
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: Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Glacs Endowment Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Glacs Endowment Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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