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Main Street Defense Fund

The Main Street Defense Fund exists to promote policies that put working American families first - not government.

$125k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$619k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rescuing the American Dream$50,00017%
Saving Texas$50,00011%
Working for America Policy Inc$25,00011%

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About Main Street Defense Fund

How much does Main Street Defense Fund give?
Main Street Defense Fund reported 3 grants totaling $125,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Main Street Defense Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (60%), Public Benefit (40%).
Who are Main Street Defense Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Rescuing the American Dream ($50k), Saving Texas ($50k), Working for America Policy Inc ($25k).
Where is Main Street Defense Fund based?
Main Street Defense Fund is based in VA.

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 3 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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