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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
American Enterprise Instit$100,000
Antitrust Education Projec$100,000
Internet Ed Foundation$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
Oklahoma Council of PA$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.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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

ID
MT
MN
NY
SD
OH
PA
CA
UT
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
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 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.
$7.7M · 29 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

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

+23%
+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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Competitive Enterprise Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 64 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…CONSUMER CHOICE CENTER: $50,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $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 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 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 budgetINTERNET EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% 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 budgetPROTECT THE FIRST FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCONSUMER CHOICE CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTECHNOLOGY POLICY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% 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 budgetTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRONTIER INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPalmetto Promise Institute: $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% 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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNebraska Diplomats Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%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
    3get 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

    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 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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