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Retirement Security Initiative

Further the common good of the citizens of the united states by informing andeducating the public and policy leaders regarding the importance and fairsustainable public sector retirement plan and to organize and support policy anddevelopment and advocacy effort at the federal, state county and municipal levels.

$44k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
Organizations funded FY2019
0%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$44,268
Largest grant, FY2019
$44,268
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$303k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 0% of the organizations Retirement Security Initiative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20191$44k0%
FY20182$193k0%
FY20174$183kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Public Benefit$299kHuman Services$80kScience & Tech$40k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Freedomworks Inc$177,50023%
American Legislative Exchange Council$121,7683n/a
Save Our Pensions$80,0001n/a
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee$40,00019%

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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 Retirement Security Initiative

How much does Retirement Security Initiative give?
Retirement Security Initiative reported 1 grants totaling $44,268 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Retirement Security Initiative fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Public Benefit (71%), Human Services (19%), Science & Tech (10%).
Who are Retirement Security Initiative's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Freedomworks Inc ($178k), American Legislative Exchange Council ($122k), Save Our Pensions ($80k).
Does Retirement Security Initiative fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Retirement Security Initiative based?
Retirement Security Initiative is based in CA.

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 4 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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