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Restoration of America Foundation Inc

Restoration of america foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to educating americans that the principles of our nation's founding should continue to serve as the foundation for our future and that we need to restore those principles in our government and society.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Benefit$7.9MEducation$1.0MPhilanthropy$1.0MCivil Rights$905kInternational$290kCrime & Legal$200kReligion$180k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $3,595,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,699,599 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $104,599 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.3M
$265,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$156k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The America Fund Inc$1,500,000
Donor's Trust$1,000,000
American Principles Project Foundation$550,000
Center for Security Policy$265,000
WI Institute for Law & Liberty Inc$200,000
Altar Fly Fishing$50,000
Women for Families and Freedom$30,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Women for Families and Freedom: $30k → 11%Center for Security Policy: $265k → 14%America Back to Basics: $250k → 15%WI Institute for Law & Liberty Inc: $100k → 17%The America Fund Inc: $1.5M → 8%Fidelis Center for Law & Policy: $325k → 5%One Nation Under God: $130k → 7%School Board for Academic Excellence: $500k → 14%Be Good to Kids LLC: $4.5M → 6%American Principles Project Foundation: $550k → 7%Donor's Trust: $1.0M → 9%Center for Security Policy: $25k → 14%Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty: $100k → 17%Altar Fly Fishing: $50k → 7%WI Institute for Law & Liberty Inc: $200k → 14%Voter Reference Foundation: $659k → 7%We Love Police: $96k → 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

IL
WI
MI
IN
VA
AZ
TN
DC
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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$786k · 3 repeat orgs$9.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -5% since the first grant, against -39% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$786k
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
-39%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsPublic BenefitInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WL
    WE LOVE POLICE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $296k · revenue -35%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $290k · revenue -5%
  • WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $200k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AE
    American Exceptionalism Institute
    one grant, 2023 · $4.5M · revenue -88% · 38% of their budget
  • AM
    AMERICAN MAJORITY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.2M · revenue -6% · 29% of their budget
  • VR
    Voter Reference Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $659k
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
2
Americans for Public Trust

The Organization's mission is to restore trust in government by holding officials and groups accountable for corrupt and unethical behavior through investigation, legal action, and reporting.

Arts & Culture
3
The American Antitrust Institute Inc

Promote competition that protects consumers, businesses, and society.

Social Science
4
Americans for Tax Reform

American for Tax Reform (ATR) is a national grassroots organization focused on increasing public awareness about the size and regulations of government and rallying support for lower taxes, smaller government and congressional…

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5
American Policy Coalition

With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.

Public Benefit
6
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
7
American Principles Project

American Principles Project was created to promote the dignity of the human person as affirmed by America's founding principles, namely that we are all d equal, endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among these are…

Civil Rights
8
Foreign Policy for America

Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.

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9
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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10
American Media Institute

Inform the public by providing news

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11
American Exceptionalism Public Policy Committee

Protecting this next generation in order to lead to a brighter future for our nation, one that recognizes the tenets held by our Founding Fathers: merit, achievement, free speech, open debate, and self-governance.

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12
America First Policy Institute Inc

The america first policy institute (afpi) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non- partisan research institute. afpi exists to advance policies that put the american people first. our guiding principles are liberty, free enterprise, national…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The America Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is We Love Police Inc. 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

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 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
3/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Exceptionalism Institute: $4,462,462 · Community ImprovementAmerican Exceptionalism Institute+1 more: $30,000 · Community ImprovementThe America Fund Inc: $1,500,000 · EducationThe America Fund IncAmerican Principles Project Foundation: $550,000 · EducationAmerican Principles Proje…WE LOVE POLICE INC: $296,200 · EducationWE LOVE POLICE INCEDUCATION ACTION GROUP FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationEDUCATION ACTION GROUP FO…AMERICAN MAJORITY INC: $1,249,998 · Public BenefitAMERICAN MAJ…Donors Trust Inc: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Tru…ALTAR FLY FISHING: $50,000 · PhilanthropySCHOOL BOARDS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: $500,000 · Civil RightsFIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY: $325,002 · Civil RightsVoter Reference Foundation: $658,846 · OtherOne Nation Under God: $130,000 · OtherCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $290,000 · InternationalWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $200,000 · Crime & Legal
Community Improvement$4,492,462Education$2,596,200Public Benefit$1,249,998Philanthropy$1,050,000Civil Rights$825,002Other$788,846International$290,000Crime & Legal$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Exceptionalism Institute: $4,462,462 over 1y, 38% of budgetThe America Fund Inc: $1,500,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetAMERICAN MAJORITY INC: $1,249,998 over 1y, 29% of budgetDonors Trust Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Principles Project Foundation: $550,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSCHOOL BOARDS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: $500,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetFIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY: $325,002 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $290,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetEDUCATION ACTION GROUP FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $200,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetALTAR FLY FISHING: $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetAMERICA'S WOMEN: $30,000 over 1y, 21% 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 IncBradley Impact Fund I…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donors Trust IncVA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Restoration of America Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Restoration of America Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    0get 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Restoration of America Foundation 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 15 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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