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Gopac Education Fund Inc

The gopac education fund promotes conservative ideas and policies for state and local governments that lower taxes, limit the size of government, and set the right business environment for job creation so individuals can pursue their dreams and live in freedom.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$707,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$553k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Gopac Education Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22
Public BenefitEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$1.1M67%
FY20224$3.2M100%
FY20201$20k100%
FY20191$10k100%
FY20181$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.0MEducation$1.3MCivil Rights$100k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for American Ideas$2,030,000128%
Colorado Dawn$1,264,500210%
Advance Minnesota$632,500277%
Good Government Coalition$200,0001n/a
Future Georgia Inc DBA Georgia Values Action$100,000136%
Protecting Americans Project$50,00015%
Shepherd University Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Iowa First Fund$15,00012%
Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures$10,00010%
Common Sense America Inc$8,00013%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Gopac Education Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for American Ideas: $2,030,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetColorado Dawn: $1,264,500 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetAdvance Minnesota: $632,500 over 2y, 77% of budgetFuture Georgia Inc DBA Georgia Values Action: $100,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetProtecting Americans Project: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetShepherd University Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIowa First Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNcsl Foundation for State Legislatures: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommon Sense America Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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Find your warmest path to Gopac Education Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Gopac Education Fund Inc

How much does Gopac Education Fund Inc give?
Gopac Education Fund Inc reported 6 grants totaling $1,146,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Gopac Education Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (68%), Education (30%), Civil Rights (2%).
Who are Gopac Education Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Center for American Ideas ($2.0M), Colorado Dawn ($1.3M), Advance Minnesota ($633k).
Does Gopac Education Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Gopac Education Fund Inc based?
Gopac Education Fund Inc is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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