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People United for Privacy Foundation

PEOPLE UNITED FOR PRIVACY FOUNDATION (pufpf) is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan educational organization founded in 2017 that works to defend the rights of all americans - regardless of their beliefs - to come together in support of their shared values.

$75k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$970k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations People United for Privacy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$75k75%
FY20233$90k33%
FY20223$75k100%
FY20202$45kn/a
100% 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$205kCivil Rights$60kCommunity Improvement$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
CO
VA
KS
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tholos Foundation$70,00031%
Independence Institute$60,00021%
Kansas Black Leadership Council Inc$35,0001n/a
State Policy Network$25,00010%
The John Locke Foundation Inc$20,00010%
The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota$20,00019%
Americans for Tax Reform$20,00010%
The James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies Inc$20,00011%
Idaho Freedom Foundation Inc$15,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget People United for Privacy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTholos Foundation: $70,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIndependence Institute: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetState Policy Network: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe John Locke Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Freedom Foundation of Minnesota: $20,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetAmericans for Tax Reform: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIdaho Freedom Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 IncVA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Roe Foundation · State Policy Network · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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How do I get to People United for Privacy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to People United for Privacy Foundation 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.

About People United for Privacy Foundation

How much does People United for Privacy Foundation give?
People United for Privacy Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $75,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does People United for Privacy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (72%), Civil Rights (21%), Community Improvement (7%).
Who are People United for Privacy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Tholos Foundation ($70k), Independence Institute ($60k), Kansas Black Leadership Council Inc ($35k).
Does People United for Privacy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as People United for Privacy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, The Roe Foundation, State Policy Network.
Where is People United for Privacy Foundation based?
People United for Privacy Foundation is based in DC.

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 9 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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