How much does Guardian of Rights Fund give?

Guardian of Rights Fund reported 11 grants totaling $10,350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.

What does Guardian of Rights Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (92%), Philanthropy (4%), Civil Rights (3%).

Who are Guardian of Rights Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Democracy Defense Project Inc ($9.1M), Future Now Action ($2.4M), Western Futures Fund Inc ($1.4M).

Does Guardian of Rights Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Guardian of Rights Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Our American Future Action, Global Impact Social Welfare Fund.

Where is Guardian of Rights Fund based?

Guardian of Rights Fund is based in NY.

Foundation Dossiers

New York · Public charity

Guardian of Rights Fund

The purposes for which the corporation is organized and operated are to engage exclusively in such social welfare and educational activities as may qualify it for exemption from federal income tax under section 501(c)(4) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended (hereinafter the "code").

$10M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Grants FY2025: 18
Organizations funded FY2024: 78%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $500,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $5,600,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 18; FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $26M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 78% of the organizations Guardian of Rights Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	9	$9.1M	56%
FY2024	18	$11M	78%
FY2023	8	$1.9M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Public Benefit$22MPhilanthropy$875kCivil Rights$800kEducation$250kSocial Science$125k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Democracy Defense Project Inc	$9,100,000	2	99%
Future Now Action	$2,400,000	3	6%
Western Futures Fund Inc	$1,400,000	2	10%
Rightcount Action Inc	$1,000,000	2	46%
Defending Democracy Together Institute	$1,000,000	1	4%
Keep Country First Policy Action Inc	$750,000	2	n/a
Americans for Prosperity	$500,000	1	n/a
Center for Technology and Civic Life	$500,000	2	2%
Every Eligible American	$500,000	1	5%
Protect Democracy United	$450,000	2	9%

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All grantees of Guardian of Rights Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Democracy Defense Project Inc	$9,100,000	2	99%
Future Now Action	$2,400,000	3	6%
Western Futures Fund Inc	$1,400,000	2	10%
Rightcount Action Inc	$1,000,000	2	46%
Defending Democracy Together Institute	$1,000,000	1	4%
Keep Country First Policy Action Inc	$750,000	2	n/a
Americans for Prosperity	$500,000	1	n/a
Center for Technology and Civic Life	$500,000	2	2%
Every Eligible American	$500,000	1	5%
Protect Democracy United	$450,000	2	9%
States United Action	$400,000	1	8%
Doers Network Inc	$350,000	1	4%
American Unity Fund Inc	$300,000	1	12%
More Perfect Union Action	$250,000	1	n/a
Way Back PAC	$250,000	1	n/a
One for Democracy Action Fund	$250,000	1	6%
Run for Something Action Fund	$250,000	1	4%
Keep Country First Policy Action Inc	$250,000	1	n/a
Johns Hopkins University	$250,000	1	0%
Resolute Republic	$250,000	1	n/a
Third Way	$250,000	1	n/a
Governing Majority Education Fund	$250,000	1	20%
Fund for States	$250,000	1	4%
A Better Big Sky	$150,000	1	7%
Conservative Leadership Network Inc	$150,000	1	n/a
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research	$125,000	1	0%
Promote the Vote Fund Inc	$50,000	1	5%

Guardian of Rights Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 19.

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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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Guardian of Rights Fund

How much does Guardian of Rights Fund give?: Guardian of Rights Fund reported 11 grants totaling $10,350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Guardian of Rights Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (92%), Philanthropy (4%), Civil Rights (3%).
Who are Guardian of Rights Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Democracy Defense Project Inc ($9.1M), Future Now Action ($2.4M), Western Futures Fund Inc ($1.4M).
Does Guardian of Rights Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Guardian of Rights Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Our American Future Action, Global Impact Social Welfare Fund.
Where is Guardian of Rights Fund based?: Guardian of Rights Fund is based in NY.