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Jeanne and Glenn Easton Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%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: $2k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $5k → 19%CONSERVATIVE LEGAL DEFENSE AND ED FUND: $1k → 6%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $5k → 19%FREE SPEECH DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $1k → 6%ACU FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%CITIZENS UNITED FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%FREE SPEECH DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC: $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 FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $1k → 14%THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $1k → 6%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%FDRLST MEDIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%THE INSTITUTE FOR WORLD POLITICS: $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
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

ME
IL
MI
NY
CA
CO
VA
SC
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
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.

04Its 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.

1
Hudson Institute Inc

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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 23 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD REAGAN HOME PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Human Life Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeFlight of Maine LLC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 IncVanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Jeanne and Glenn Easton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeanne and Glenn Easton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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