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Patientrightsadvocateorg Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Patientrightsadvocateorg Inc

Conduct research and advocacy in support of systemwide price transparency in healthcare to lower costs for all americans

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$12MEducation$2.1MHuman Services$1.1MPublic Benefit$952kSocial Science$276kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$537k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE$200,000
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL$150,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$150,000
COMMITTEE TO UNLEASH PROSPERITY$150,000
US PIRG EDUCATION FUND$139,500
AMAC ACTION$100,000
PEOPLE FOR OPPORTUNITY INC DBA SAVE OUR STATE$100,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$90,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$75,000
STATE FINANCIAL OFFICERS FOUNDATION$50,000
DOLLAR FOR$50,000
FREE MARKET MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LLC$10,000
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 (FY22–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMAC ACTION: $100k → 7%FAMILIES USA: $500k → 14%AMAC ACTION: $150k → 10%DOLLAR FOR: $50k → 9%FAMILIES USA: $500k → 14%DOLLAR FOR: $20k → 9%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

WA
IL
MA
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 10 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$16M
$869k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther
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

  • PT
    POWER TO THE PATIENTS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $12M · revenue +89% · 100% of their budget
  • 1I
    1065 INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +226% · 40% of their budget
  • FU
    FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • BENTLEY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +8%
  • The Rand Corporation
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +16%
  • OF
    ONE FACT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · 68% of their budget
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
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
2
The Berkeley Policy Institute Inc
Social Science
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
4
The Foundation for Research On Equal Opportunity

The foundation for research on equal opportunity seeks to expand economic opportunity to those who least have it, using the tools of individual liberty, free enterprise, technological innovation, and pluralism. freopp deploys the nation's…

Community Improvement
5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
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
7
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
8
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
9
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
10
Institute for Policy Innovation

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…

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11
R Street Institute

The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…

Education
12
Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

Association for public policy analysis & management (appam) is dedicated to improving public policy management by fostering excellence in research, analysis and education.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America First Policy Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nonpartisan Healthcare Coalition Broken Healthcare Action Fund. 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

27 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. 27 of the 28 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POWER TO THE PATIENTS: $11,825,000 · HealthPOWER TO THE PATIENTS+2 more: $150,000 · Health1065 INSTITUTE INC: $1,250,000 · Education1065 INSTITUTE …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $360,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS U…AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 · EducationAMERICA FIRST P…BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERS…+4 more: $205,000 · Education+4 moreFAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesAMAC-ACTION INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesDOLLAR FOR: $70,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $430,000 · Public BenefitUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $327,850 · Public BenefitThe Rand Corporation: $250,000 · Public BenefitUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC: $150,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitIndependent Women's Forum: $400,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR OPPORTUNITY INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsIndependent Women's Voice: $53,500 · Civil RightsBROWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · Community ImprovementNONPARTISAN HEALTHCARE COALITION Broken Healthcare Action Fund: $39,500 · OtherFREE MARKET MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LLC: $10,000 · OtherASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT DOCTORS: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $16,000 · OtherYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC: $10,000 · Other
Health$11,975,000Education$2,365,000Human Services$1,320,000Public Benefit$1,167,850Civil Rights$553,500Community Improvement$300,000Other$85,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOWER TO THE PATIENTS: $11,825,000 over 4y, 100% of budget1065 INSTITUTE INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetFAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $430,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $400,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $360,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $327,850 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMAC-ACTION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE FACT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOLLAR FOR: $70,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetIndependent Women's Voice: $53,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR REFORM FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetNONPARTISAN HEALTHCARE COALITION Broken Healthcare Action Fund: $39,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RESEARCH AND POLICY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT DOCTORS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% 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.

Donors Trust IncNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donors Trust IncVA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Patientrightsadvocateorg Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patientrightsadvocateorg Inc. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • Amac-Action Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Patientrightsadvocateorg Inc?

Find your warmest path to Patientrightsadvocateorg 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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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