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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$708k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $973k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$553k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO DAWN$707,500
ADVANCED MINNESOTA ISSUE ADVOCACY$265,000
GEORGIA'A FUTURE INC$100,000
PROTECTING AMERICANS PROJECT$50,000
IOWA FIRST FUND$15,000
COMMON SENSE AMERICA$8,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ADVANCE MINNESOTA ISSUE ADVOCACY: $368k → 6%NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $10k → 14%IOWA FIRST FUND: $15k → 10%COLORADO DAWN: $708k → 9%SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 9%PROTECTING AMERICANS PROJECT: $50k → 6%CENTER FOR AMERICAN IDEAS: $2.0M → 7%ADVANCED MINNESOTA ISSUE ADVOCACY: $265k → 6%NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $10k → 14%COLORADO DAWN: $557k → 9%COMMON SENSE AMERICA: $8k → 6%GOOD GOVERNMENT COALITION: $200k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Common Sense Policy Institute

The Common Sense Policy Institute works to inform the American public of dysfunction in the government by identifying government waste, fraud, and abuse through engaging in nonpartisan analysis, study, and research relating to government…

Public Benefit
2
Common Sense Institute

Common sense institute (csi) is a non-partisan research organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of the economy. as a leading voice for free enterprise, csi's mission is to examine the fiscal impacts of policies and educate…

Social Science
3
Fund for States

Fund for states is dedicated to building a democracy that works for every voter. we work with state and local election officials and community organizations to educate the public, combat disinformation, and restore trust in the electoral…

Public Benefit
4
Commonsense American Foundation Inc

CommonSese American Foundation, Inc. aims to educate citizens of the United States about the most significant policy problems facing the nation and the range of possible solutions for these issues.

Civil Rights
5
American Future Fund

American future fund works to promote conservative free market principles to the citizens of america.

Public Benefit
6
America Next

America next, inc. was formed to further the organization's mission of promoting conservative, free market policy solutions.

Health
7
State Policy Institute

To promote pro-growth, progressive policy at the state level.

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8
Committee On States

Committee on states' mission is to create, nurture, & sustain a community of state-based progressive investors and institutional partners throughout the country.

Civil Rights
9
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.

Public Benefit
10
Citizen Awareness Project Inc

Citizen Awareness Project exists to educate citizens and public officials on issues of public policy and to give them the tools necessary to make a difference in their community on issues affecting the public at large. Specifically, it…

Civil Rights
11
Americans for Limited Government Inc

Advocate for various issues relating to limited government.

Civil Rights
12
Advance Colorado

Advance colorado is a charitable non-profit organization that serves a public education mission. advance colorado educates citizens on principles to enhance and strengthen active citizenship in a democracy. specific public education issues…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures; the most unlike its peers is Colorado Dawn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR AMERICAN IDEAS: $2,030,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR AMERICAN IDEAS+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitCOLORADO DAWN: $1,264,500 · EducationCOLORADO DAWN+1 more: $20,000 · EducationADVANCE MINNESOTA: $632,500 · Community ImprovementADVANCE MINNESOT…GOOD GOVERNMENT COALITION: $200,000 · OtherPROTECTING AMERICANS PROJECT: $50,000 · OtherIOWA FIRST FUND: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $8,000 · OtherFuture Georgia Inc DBA Georgia Values Action: $100,000 · Civil Rights
Public Benefit$2,040,000Education$1,284,500Community Improvement$632,500Other$283,000Civil Rights$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gopac Education Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gopac Education Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Gopac Education Fund Inc?

    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.

    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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