· Public charity
Institute for Justice
Through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research, the INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE (ij) advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and responsible members of society.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| State Policy Network | $20,000 |
| American legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) | $20,000 |
| InHeirit | $14,000 |
| 7323 Chicago Caf | $10,000 |
| National Conference of State legislature | $7,500 |
| Daniel's Test Kitchen | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ALAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL6× · 2020–2025 · $127k · revenue +37%
- SPSTATE POLICY NETWORK6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +26%
- TFTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- EIEdChoice Incone grant, 2024 · $1.3M · revenue 0%
- SOSERVING OUR CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue -16%
- RCR CITY KITCHEN GROUPone grant, 2024 · $13k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
Strengthening education as the advocate and voice of private schools.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
To prepare students to succeed in competitive colleges and to empower them to use public policy to create a more just, free, and equal world.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Ccsso through leadership, advocacy and service, assists chief state school officers and their organizations in achieving the vision of an american education system that enables all children to succeed in school, work, and life.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Institute for Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for Justice. Bigger dots raise more.
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