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Main Street Growth and Opportunity Coalition Inc at a glance

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Main Street Growth and Opportunity Coalition Inc

Main Street Growth and Opportunity Coalition, Inc.

$235k
Granted FY2019
2
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$200k
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, FY2017 to 2019.

Public Benefit$3.8MHuman Services$3.5MCivil Rights$550kCommunity Improvement$518kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2019 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$200,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Center for Individual Freedom$200,000
Taxpayers Protection Alliance$35,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%American Action Network: $2.3M → 14%American Action Network: $1.2M → 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.
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 3 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$4.1M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+58%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Public BenefitHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • AA
    American Action Network Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3.5M · revenue +92%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
    2× · 2018–2019 · $540k · revenue +3%
  • TT
    THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • 4I
    45COMMITTEE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3.5M · revenue -99%
  • CO
    Chamber of Commerce of the USAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +42%
  • ON
    ONE NATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $230k · revenue +117%
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
Americans for Tax Reform

American for Tax Reform (ATR) is a national grassroots organization focused on increasing public awareness about the size and regulations of government and rallying support for lower taxes, smaller government and congressional…

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2
American Policy Coalition

With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.

Public Benefit
3
Us Term Limits Inc

U.s. term limits advocates for term limits at all levels of government.

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4
National Taxpayers Union Foundation

National taxpayers union foundation (ntuf) provides crucial, impactful research and analysis showing americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. with our unique combination of policy expertise, outreach know-how,…

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5
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
6
Center for the National Interest

The center is a non-partisan public policy institution established by former president richard nixon. its current programs focus on energy, security, climate change and u.s. relations with china, japan, russia and the middle east.

Public Benefit
7
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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8
Council for National Policy

To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.

Public Benefit
9
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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10
California Policy Group

The purpose of the organization is to provide objective, nonpartisan and balanced research analysis and commentary regarding legislation important to the California economy.

Public Benefit
11
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
12
State Policy Network

State policy network's (spn) mission is to catalyze thriving, durable freedom movements in every state, anchored with high-performing, independent think tanks.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Taxpayers Union; the most unlike its peers is The Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc. 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

45COMMITTEE INC: $3,450,000 · Other45COMMITTEE INCChamber of Commerce of the USA: $500,000 · OtherChamber of Commerce of the USA+2 more: $45,000 · OtherAmerican Action Network Inc: $3,475,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Action Network IncCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM: $540,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR …ONE NATION: $230,000 · Public BenefitONE NATIONTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $55,000 · Public BenefitTHE TAXPAYE…WOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsCATALYST OKLAHOMA INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementThe Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,995,000Human Services$3,475,000Public Benefit$825,000Civil Rights$10,000Community Improvement$7,500Arts & Culture$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget45COMMITTEE INC: $3,450,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM: $540,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetChamber of Commerce of the USA: $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $55,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCATALYST OKLAHOMA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Pharmaceutical Resear…Ncta - the Internet &…The Concord Fund
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · The Concord 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 Main Street Growth and Opportunity Coalition Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Main Street Growth and Opportunity Coalition Inc. 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%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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Main Street Growth and Opportunity Coalition Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Main Street Growth and Opportunity Coalition Inc 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports $669k 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 FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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