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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$970k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$20,000
THOLOS FOUNDATION$20,000
JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE$20,000
IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%THOLOS FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $20k → 19%KANSAS BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $35k → 15%JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $40k → 12%STATE POLICY NETWORK: $25k → 7%THOLOS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%THOLOS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM: $20k → 14%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

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MN
CO
VA
KS
NC
DC
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 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
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
2
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
3
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
4
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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5
Independence and Freedom Network

Independence and Freedom Network was founded to promote solutions to pressing public policy problems related to individual liberty and the expansion of personal freedom.

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6
Freedom Fighters Foundation

Freedom Fighters Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization dedicated to the core principles of constitutionally limited government, conservative family values, free markets and individual liberty. Our mission is to advance…

Community Improvement
7
James Madison Center for Free Speech
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8
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
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
11
Rocky Mountain Policy Group

Promoting a strong state economy with limited government taxes and regulation.

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12
Sutherland Institute

A conservative public policy think tank, sutherland institute is pursuing the path to "a new birth of freedom" for america through a free market economy, civil society, and community-driven solutions.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independence Institute; the most unlike its peers is Americans for Tax Reform. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tholos Foundation: $70,000 · OtherTholos FoundationKansas Black Leadership Council Inc: $35,000 · OtherKansas Black Leadership Council IncTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INCAmericans for Tax Reform: $20,000 · OtherAmericans for Tax ReformTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INCINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Public BenefitINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTETHE FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE FREEDOM F…IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementIDAHO FREEDOM…STATE POLICY NETWORK: $25,000 · Civil RightsSTATE POL…
Other$165,000Public Benefit$60,000Community Improvement$35,000Civil Rights$25,000

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 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
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 IncThe Roe FoundationState Policy NetworkThe Lynde and Harry B…Charles Koch Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization People United for Privacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from People United for Privacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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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.

    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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