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NetChoice

to make the internet safe for free enterprise and free expression though policy advocacy in the states, the federal government, and the nation's courts

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$580k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Public Benefit$7.7MScience & Tech$1.1MSocial Science$655kCommunity Improvement$558kCrime & Legal$310kCivil Rights$165kEducation$70kHealth$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $473k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $930k
  • $250k+2 grants · $945k
$35,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Patiot Voices$580,000
Tech Freedom$365,000
Committee to Unleash Prosp$185,000
Competitive Enterprise Ins$125,000
Internet Ed Foundation$100,000
Antitrust Education Projec$100,000
American Enterprise Instit$100,000
Phoenix Center for Adv$90,000
James Madison Institute$90,000
Young Voices$75,000
Pelican Institute for Publ$65,000
American Consumer Institut$45,000
National Taxpayers Union$40,000
Taxpayers Protection Allia$40,000
Libertas Institute$35,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $580k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Patiot Voices: $580k → 6%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

ID
MT
MN
NY
SD
OH
PA
CA
UT
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
TX
FL

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.
$7.7M · 29 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
30

Total granted

$7.7M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+22%

Still filing today

93%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $733k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCivil RightsEducationSocial ScienceScience & TechHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UP
    UNLEASH PROSPERITY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $335k · revenue +108%
  • CE
    COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +27%
  • PI
    PELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • IA
    Integrity Action Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $1.2M
  • SC
    STOP CHILD PREDATORS PARTNERSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $210k · revenue +49%
  • AI
    Assoc Industries of FL
    one grant, 2022 · $205k

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
The Libertarian Institute

Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.

Education
2
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
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Competition & Innovation Institute
Public Benefit
5
The Berkeley Policy Institute Inc
Social Science
6
Contemporary Policy Institute
Philanthropy
7
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

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8
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
9
Institute of Politics Policy and History
Education
10
James Madison Center for Free Speech
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11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Competitive Enterprise Institute and the most unlike its peers is Technology Policy Institute. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%63%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/43
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,522

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

38 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 64 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

45COMMITTEE INC — $4,195,000 · Other45COMMITTEE INCIntegrity Action Fund — $1,173,750 · OtherIntegrity Action Fund+41 more — $2,419,500 · Other+41 moreTECHFREEDOM — $1,065,000 · Science & TechTECHFREEDO…UNLEASH PROSPERITY INC — $335,000 · Public BenefitUNLEASH PR…PELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $200,000 · Public BenefitPELICAN IN…INTERNET EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $105,000 · Public BenefitINTERNET E…Libertas Network — $80,000 · Public BenefitLibertas N…THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE — $80,000 · Public BenefitTHE TAXPAY…BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $50,000 · Public BenefitCONSUMER CHOICE CENTER — $50,000 · Public BenefitMOUNTAIN STATES POLICY CENTER INC — $43,000 · Public BenefitTAX FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Public BenefitBEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE — $35,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $30,000 · Public BenefitPATRIOT VOICES INC — $580,000 · Human ServicesPHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $150,000 · Civil RightsJEFFERSONIAN PROJECT — $110,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT THE FIRST FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsSTOP CHILD PREDATORS PARTNERSHIP — $210,000 · Crime & LegalAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $150,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC — $40,000 · Social ScienceMercatus Center Inc — $10,000 · Social Science
Other$7,788,250Science & Tech$1,065,000Public Benefit$1,048,000Human Services$580,000Civil Rights$320,000Crime & Legal$210,000Social Science$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget45COMMITTEE INC — $4,195,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetTECHFREEDOM — $1,065,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetPATRIOT VOICES INC — $580,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC — $335,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $225,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $200,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $175,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $150,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEFFERSONIAN PROJECT — $110,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNET EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetYoung Voices — $95,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetLibertas Network — $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE — $80,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE — $70,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research — $70,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTECHNOLOGY POLICY INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPROTECT THE FIRST FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONSUMER CHOICE CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES POLICY CENTER INC — $43,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPalmetto Promise Institute — $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFRONTIER INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA — $20,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNebraska Diplomats Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

Charles Koch InstituteThe Seminar Network I…Donors Trust IncNcta - the Internet &…Adolph Coors Foundati…The Lynde and Harry B…Charles Koch Foundati…State Policy NetworkMywirelessorgPharmaceutical Resear…The Roe FoundationMotion Picture Associ…
Charles Koch InstituteVA36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles Koch Institute · The Seminar Network Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · State Policy Network · Mywirelessorg · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · The Roe Foundation · Motion Picture Association Inc

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 NetChoice 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 NetChoice?

    Find your warmest path to NetChoice 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 64 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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