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Pacific Legal Foundation
Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) litigates nationwide to secure all Americans' inalienable rights to live responsibly and productively in their pursuit of happiness.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Talent Market | $25,000 |
| Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty | $15,000 |
| Pelican Institute for Public Policy | $15,000 |
| Georgia Public Policy Foundation | $15,000 |
| Iowans for Tax Relief | $15,000 |
| Mountain States Policy Center Inc | $15,000 |
| The James Madison Institute | $15,000 |
| Platte Insitute for Economic Research | $15,000 |
| The John Locke Foundation | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFAmerica's Future Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue 0%
- PIPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +37%
- TJTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue -8%
Funded once
- FIFRONTIER INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -14%
- IFIOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -59%
- MCMACKINAC CENTERone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To promote the ideals of free market economics, individual liberty, and limited government through the conduct of public opinion research.
Advance and improve the representativeness of democracy for all constituencies across the united states.
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…
Research and education on public policy issues.
The institute for policy studies (the institute) is a 60-year-old organization that is dedicated to building a more equitable, ecologically sustainable, and peaceful society.
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…
The institute for progress (ifp) is a non-partisan think tank focused on innovation policy. our organization works to accelerate and shape the direction of scientific, technological and industrial progress.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
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.
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
The institute conducts non-partisan research into nys governmental and economic issues of interest to business, labor and the general public.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is America's Future Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds America's Future Foundation ↗
- Who funds PELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds PLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds IOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds IOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: State Policy Network · Donors Trust Inc · The Seminar Network Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Roe Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · NetChoice · Charles Koch Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Pacific Legal Foundation 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.
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.