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Libertas Network

Libertas Network is a family-facing association of initiatives that change hearts, minds, and laws to create a freer future.

$87k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Public Benefit$60kCommunity Improvement$25kSocial Science$23kScience & Tech$15kEducation$10kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $87,450 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $67,450 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Americas Future Foundation$10,000
Utah Education Fits All$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Commonwealth Foundation: $15k → 12%Texas Public Policy Foundatio: $15k → 10%Americas Future Foundation: $10k → 14%Iowans for Tax Relief: $15k → 5%Institute for Reforming Gover: $15k → 5%Utah Education Fits All: $10k → 8%The Buckeye Institute: $15k → 15%Nevada Policy Research Instit: $8k → 13%Better Cities Project: $25k → 13%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

WI
NV
IA
OH
PA
UT
NM
DC
TX
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 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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2
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
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
5
The Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research Inc

To promote the ideals of free market economics, individual liberty, and limited government through the conduct of public opinion research.

Social Science
6
Technology Policy Institute
International
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The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis Inc

The institute performs research which has a three-fold purpose: to examine issues of u.s. foreign policy, formulate policy options and programs for submission to u.s. government agencies and dissemination to the public, and to train…

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8
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
9
The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy

Research and education on public policy issues.

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10
Iowa Policy Project

The mission of Iowa Policy Project is to promote public policy that fosters economic opportunity while safeguarding the health and well-being of Iowa's people and the environment. By providing a foundation of fact-based, objective research…

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11
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Utah Education Fits All. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF: $15,000 · OtherIOWANS FOR TAX RELIEFCommonwealth Foundation: $15,000 · OtherCommonwealth FoundationThe Buckeye Institute: $15,000 · OtherThe Buckeye InstituteNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $7,500 · OtherNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTETHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $7,500 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY S…BETTER CITIES PROJECT: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBETTER CITIES PROJE…INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC: $15,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR REFOR…UTAH EDUCATION FITS ALL: $10,000 · EducationUTAH EDUCATION FITS…TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLI…Rio Grande Foundation Inc: $7,500 · Public BenefitRio Grande Founda…America's Future Foundation: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$60,000Arts & Culture$25,000Education$25,000Public Benefit$22,500Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETTER CITIES PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetIOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF: $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH EDUCATION FITS ALL: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAmerica's Future Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRio Grande Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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 IncState Policy NetworkAdolph Coors Foundati…The Roe FoundationThe Chase Foundation …Atlas Economic Resear…Charles Koch InstituteThe Seminar Network I…The Lynde and Harry B…Charles Koch Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Donors Trust IncVA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · State Policy Network · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Roe Foundation · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · The Seminar Network Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Libertas Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Libertas Network. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%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, FY20–25
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Libertas Network?

    Find your warmest path to Libertas Network 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $50k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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