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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY ALLIANCE
An independent government watchdog advocating for the people of illinois and working to turn free-market ideas into law.
$2.1M
Granted FY2022
5
Grants
2
Communities
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY ALLIANCE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
shares principles
2020
shares principles
2021
tax-exempt sharesshares similiar
2022
tax-exempt sharesshares similiar
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$350,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$935k
Total assets
Largest grants
- VOTE NO ON AMENDMENT 1 NFP$1,240,000
- COMMON SENSE REFORMS$425,000
- AMERICAN JOBS AND GROWTH FUND$350,000
- VOTER PROTECTION NFP$50,000
- ILLINOIS POLICY PAC$24,000
02The need
04
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Institute for Research on Presidential Elections
To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States by providing objectively-determined information, data, analyses, and studies aimed at improving
Civil Rights
2
National Popular Vote
To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States
Public Benefit
3
Government Accountability Alliance
An independent government watchdog advocating for the people of illinois and working to turn free-market ideas into law.
Civil Rights
4
Institute for Public Accuracy
The Institute for Public Accuracy reaches millions of Americans by arranging radio, TV, print and multimedia interviews for progressive policy analysts, highlighting key issues beneath the surface of the news.
Arts & Culture
5
The Lincoln Institute of Public
To promote the ideals of free market economics, individual liberty, and limited government through the conduct of public opinion research.
Social Science
6
Illinois Fiscal Policy Council
Public Benefit
7
Reform for Illinois
Conducts research on governmental trends, advocates reforms and hosts educational events to promote public participation in government. addresses the role of money in politics, and encourages integrity, accountability, and transparency in…
Civil Rights
8
Change Illinois
Change illinois is dedicated to activities that promote honest and effective government, open elections, and high levels of voter participation in illinois.
Civil Rights
9
Institute for Political Innovation Inc
Increase understanding of public policies and promote nonpartisan political innovation.
Social Science
10
Institute for Progress
Non-partisan think tank focused on innovation policy. our organization works to accelerate and shape the direction of scientific, technological and industrial progress.
Social Science
11
Illinois Prison Project
The Illinois Prison Project works for a more sensible and humane prison system in Illinois by advocating for and on behalf of thousands of people who are needlessly incarcerated. It provides direct representation to incarcerated elderly…
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12
American Independent Media
To educate and inform growing audiences with engaging content through distribution channels.
Public Benefit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Opportunity Project and the most unlike its peers is Voter Protection Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,994,332Public Benefit$2,073,553
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY ALLIANCE 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
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, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VOTER PROTECTION NFP.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 874118041 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on VOTER PROTECTION NFP, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Government Accountability Alliance?
Find your warmest path to Government Accountability Alliance through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines