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Jeanne and Glenn Easton Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Public Benefit$63kCivil Rights$51kSocial Science$33kArts & Culture$12kHuman Services$3kReligion$3kHealth$1kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$696k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$37,000
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE$10,000
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION$5,000
RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL$2,000
THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%TALENT MARKET: $1k → 12%CITIZENS UNITED FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $10k → 19%RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL: $3k → 20%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $1k → 9%RONALD REAGAN HOME PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION: $37k → 6%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%LIFEFLIGHT OF MAINE: $1k → 11%HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CITIZENS UNITED FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $8k → 19%RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL: $2k → 20%CONSERVATIVE LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $2k → 6%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%CITIZENS UNITED FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $5k → 19%RUSSELL KIRK CENTER: $2k → 20%CONSERVATIVE LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $2k → 6%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%CITIZENS UNITED FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $5k → 19%FREE SPEECH DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $1k → 6%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE: $2k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $5k → 19%FREE SPEECH DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC: $1k → 6%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%CITIZENS UNITED FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $5k → 19%FREE SPEECH DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC: $1k → 6%ACU FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%CONSERVATIVE LEGAL DEFENSE AND ED FUND: $1k → 6%NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $1k → 14%THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $2k → 6%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $1k → 6%THE INSTITUTE FOR WORLD POLITICS: $1k → 14%THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $1k → 6%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%FDRLST MEDIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $1k → 14%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%FDRLST MEDIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$116k · 12 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$116k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+48%

Still filing today

83%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitEducationCivil RightsSocial ScienceArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • AC
    AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +17%
  • NR
    NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +33%
  • TR
    THE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL
    2× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • RR
    RONALD REAGAN HOME PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue 0%
  • CA
    CHURCH AT THE FALLS - THE FALLS CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • RK
    RUSSELL KIRK CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Hudson Institute Inc

Hudson Institute is a research organization promoting American leadership for a secure, free, and prosperous future.

2
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
5
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
6
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
7
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
8
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
9
Sutherland Institute

A conservative public policy think tank, sutherland institute is pursuing the path to "a new birth of freedom" for america through a free market economy, civil society, and community-driven solutions.

Education
10
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
11
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
12
The Liberal Patriot Inc

The liberal patriot (tlp) is a digital newsletter focused on american politics and public policy. tlp aims to provide readers with honest analysis and original commentary to help advance a vital center perspective in american life.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fdrlst Media Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,544

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Young America's Foundation — $37,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationCitizens United Foundation — $13,500 · OtherCitizens United FoundationNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — $6,500 · OtherNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTECONSERVATIVE LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND — $5,300 · OtherCONSERVATIVE LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUNDDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER — $4,500 · OtherDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTERTHE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $3,500 · OtherTHE FREE SPEECH DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC — $3,000 · Other+8 more — $10,500 · Other+8 moreGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE — $38,000 · Civil RightsGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY…AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC — $26,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN CONSERVA…FDRLST MEDIA FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Public BenefitTHE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL — $4,500 · EducationConservative Partnership Institute — $3,000 · EducationRONALD REAGAN HOME PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $3,500 · Arts & CultureLifeFlight of Maine LLC — $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$83,800Civil Rights$38,000Social Science$26,000Public Benefit$8,000Education$7,500Arts & Culture$3,500Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE — $38,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC — $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens United Foundation — $13,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL — $4,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFDRLST MEDIA FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD REAGAN HOME PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $3,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLifeFlight of Maine LLC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Human Life Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Donors Trust IncVA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jeanne and Glenn Easton Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jeanne and Glenn Easton Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jeanne and Glenn Easton Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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