· 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").
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEMOCRACY DEFENSE PROJECT INC | $5,600,000 |
| FUTURE NOW ACTION | $1,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR SECURE AND MODERN ELECTIONS | $750,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $500,000 |
| WESTERN FUTURES FUND INC | $500,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY | $500,000 |
| RIGHTCOUNT INC | $500,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| THIRD WAY | $250,000 |
| KEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION INC | $250,000 |
| FUND FOR STATES | $250,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FNFUTURE NOW ACTION3× · 2023–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +18%
- CFCENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +51%
- PDPROTECT DEMOCRACY UNITED2× · 2023–2024 · $450k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- DDDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
- EEEVERY ELIGIBLE AMERICANone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -98%
- SUSTATES UNITED ACTIONone grant, 2024 · $400k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
States united democracy center is a nonpartisan organization advancing free, fair, and secure elections. we connect state and local officials, law enforcement leaders, and pro-democracy partners across america with the tools and expertise…
Conduct research and expose abuse of authority and power by government authorities and the deleterious effect such actions have on american democracy.
Democracyfirst is a 501(c)4 dedicated to restoring public trust in the electoral system, protecting free and fair elections, and renewing the pro-democracy consensus in american politics.
To preserve and protect the sanctity of our vote by promoting commonsense, nonpartisan election security reforms that prevent hacking and fraud without restricting eligible citizens from accessing the polls.
To protect the rights and institutions that make our nation's democracy strong by working through the legal system and administrative processes to preserve the rule of law and hold government accountable, and to educate the public about…
Advancing american freedom foundation (aaff) educates the american people that freedom is the cornerstone of our republic, and that freedom must be fostered and protected against unjustified government encroachment. aaff informs the public…
Independence initiative is dedicated to advancing foundational american ideals such as democracy, individual rights, and equality under the law, and strives to empower individuals and organizations with innovative ideas and facilitate the…
The mission is to end big money in politics and protect the right to vote. we will work to fix our rigged political system and elevate campaign finance and reform in the national conversation. we will work to overturn citizens united, end…
Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…
Advocacy concerning democratic values, national security and defense; lobbying of government officials in favor of policies that further the defense of the u.s. and its constitution; development of coalitions with other organizations to…
Secure Democracy USA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to build stronger elections, state by state.
Advance democracy, inc. is a non-partisan nonprofit that produces independent public-interest research and journalism to educate the public on important public matters. the organization conducts highly-technical, specialized research,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is States United Action and the most unlike its peers is Third Way. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DEMOCRACY DEFENSE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds FUTURE NOW ACTION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN FUTURES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHTCOUNT ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE ↗
- Who funds EVERY ELIGIBLE AMERICAN ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY UNITED ↗
- Who funds STATES UNITED ACTION ↗
- Who funds DOERS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MORE PERFECT UNION ACTION ↗
- Who funds ONE FOR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds KEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY ↗
- Who funds GOVERNING MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR STATES ↗
- Who funds A BETTER BIG SKY ↗
- Who funds Conservative Leadership Network Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Our American Future Action · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · Hopewell Fund · North Fund · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Guardian of Rights Fund 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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 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.
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