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Institute for the American Worker

The Institute for the American Worker educates about policies that enhance freedom, facilitate innovation, and foster collaboration between workers and job creators.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$115kHuman Services$5kCivil Rights$5kSocial Science$5k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Center for Union Facts$35,000
Mackinac Center for Public Policy$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%California Policy Center: $5k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
NY
OH
CA
UT
VA
DC
FL
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.

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Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
2
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
5
Institute for Policy Innovation

It is the mission of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) to provide education, research, analysis and recommendations to policy makers, opinion leaders and the American people designed to help solve public policy problems through…

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Dc Policy Center

The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…

Public Benefit
7
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
8
The Berkeley Policy Institute Inc
Social Science
9
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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10
The Libertarian Institute

Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.

Education
11
Technology Policy Institute
International
12
Independence Institute

The mission of independence institute is to empower individuals and to educate citizens,legislators and opinion makers about public policies that enhance personal and economic freedom.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Policy Institute; the most unlike its peers is Libertas Network. 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

11 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR UNION FACTS: $35,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR UNION FACTSMACKINAC CENTER: $25,000 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTEREMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INCLibertas Network: $5,000 · Public BenefitLibertas NetworkILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Public BenefitILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTEEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATIONThe Buckeye Institute: $5,000 · OtherThe Buckeye InstituteTholos Foundation: $5,000 · OtherTholos FoundationTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $5,000 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC …CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesIndependent Women's Forum: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Public Benefit$75,000Other$45,000Human Services$5,000Civil Rights$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR UNION FACTS: $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLibertas Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTholos Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Donors Trust IncThe Lynde and Harry B…State Policy NetworkAdolph Coors Foundati…The Roe FoundationBradley Impact Fund I…The Seminar Network I…Charles Koch Foundati…The Chase Foundation …The Dunn FoundationBeth and Ravenel Curr…Vanguard Charitable E…
Donors Trust IncVA23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · State Policy Network · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Roe Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Seminar Network Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · The Dunn Foundation · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Institute for the American Worker funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for the American Worker. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 Institute for the American Worker?

    Find your warmest path to Institute for the American Worker 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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