· Private foundation
Prometheus Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OBJECTIVE STANDARD INSTITUTE | $2,083,824 |
| AYN RAND CENTER EUROPE | $434,144 |
| AYN RAND CENTRE UKRAINE | $246,316 |
| Individual grant recipient | $240,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $173,864 |
| Individual grant recipient | $151,650 |
| ANCYRANUM MEDIA COMM CONSULTANCY | $116,925 |
| Individual grant recipient | $103,975 |
| AMERICA'S FUTURE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AYN RAND CENTER GEORGIA | $84,000 |
| ATLAS NETWORK | $82,000 |
| ADAM SMITH INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| IDEAS BEYOND BORDERS | $49,730 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,256 |
| AYN RAND CENTER ARMENIA SENGO | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 69% of grant dollars ($15M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 31% that went abroad ($6.6M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 31% of all-years giving ($6.6M)
24 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSOBJECTIVE STANDARD INSTITUTE6× · 2019–2024 · $4.8M · revenue ×69 · 66% of their budget
- SFSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +49%
- TATHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM2× · 2017–2018 · $698k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $325k
- CFCENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INCone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -98%
- BGBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $225k · revenue +62%
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.
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.
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…
Philosophical education
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…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
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.
The institute on religion and public life is an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. the institute's mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports: (see schedule o)- a religiously…
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 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.
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OBJECTIVE STANDARD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds America's Future Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Charles Koch Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Prometheus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prometheus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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