How much does State Policy Network give?

State Policy Network reported 71 grants totaling $6,108,745 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does State Policy Network fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (51%), Social Science (14%), Education (13%).

Who are State Policy Network's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beacon Center of Tennessee ($1.9M), Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc ($1.5M), People United for Privacy Foundation ($1.4M).

Does State Policy Network fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as State Policy Network?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, The Roe Foundation.

Where is State Policy Network based?

State Policy Network is based in VA.

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State Policy Network

STATE POLICY NETWORK's (spn) mission is to catalyze thriving, durable freedom movements in every state, anchored with high-performing, independent think tanks.

$6.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 71
Grants FY2025: 46
Organizations funded FY2024: 13%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 23 to 55; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 31
Total assets, FY2025: $20M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations State Policy Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitEducationSocial ScienceHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	42	$6.1M	26%
FY2024	46	$3.2M	13%
FY2023	55	$7.0M	18%
FY2022	47	$6.2M	23%
FY2021	30	$4.2M	17%
FY2020	43	$2.4M	16%
FY2019	38	$2.5M	34%
FY2018	23	$971k	43%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$14MSocial Science$4.0MEducation$3.5MCivil Rights$2.2MHuman Services$1.5MCrime & Legal$519kPhilanthropy$386kHealth$359kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Beacon Center of Tennessee	$1,854,500	8	17%
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc	$1,536,094	9	14%
People United for Privacy Foundation	$1,371,718	4	93%
Institute for Reforming Government Inc	$1,288,000	5	29%
Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc	$1,157,400	8	41%
Pioneer Institute Inc	$1,117,000	7	6%
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc	$1,046,000	9	4%
Pelican Institute for Public Policy	$999,500	7	15%
Empower Mississippi Foundation	$996,250	6	15%
Georgia Public Policy Foundation Inc	$966,000	7	21%

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All grantees of State Policy Network by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Beacon Center of Tennessee	$1,854,500	8	17%
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc	$1,536,094	9	14%
People United for Privacy Foundation	$1,371,718	4	93%
Institute for Reforming Government Inc	$1,288,000	5	29%
Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc	$1,157,400	8	41%
Pioneer Institute Inc	$1,117,000	7	6%
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc	$1,046,000	9	4%
Pelican Institute for Public Policy	$999,500	7	15%
Empower Mississippi Foundation	$996,250	6	15%
Georgia Public Policy Foundation Inc	$966,000	7	21%
Illinois Policy Institute	$955,500	8	3%
The Buckeye Institute	$944,000	8	8%
South Carolina Policy Council Education Foundation	$887,500	4	56%
California Policy Center	$838,358	7	11%
Independence Institute	$803,000	7	6%
The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives	$799,000	7	2%
Mackinac Center	$746,200	9	2%
Evergreen Freedom Foundation	$733,700	6	1%
Libertas Network	$713,000	5	2%
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation	$696,218	4	34%
Empire Center for Public Policy Inc	$694,650	6	13%
The James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies Inc	$650,000	8	7%
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty	$611,050	8	3%
Yankee Institute for Public Policy	$583,300	7	9%
Platte Institute Action	$525,000	6	n/a
Center of the American Experiment	$522,800	7	5%
Palmetto Promise Institute	$513,250	7	21%
The John Locke Foundation Inc	$480,725	6	4%
Alaska Policy Forum Inc	$475,000	5	42%
Kansas Policy Institute	$462,500	6	6%
Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research	$452,500	7	2%
Cascade Policy Institute	$445,000	5	13%
Alabama Policy Institute Inc	$375,000	6	10%
Foundation for Government Accountability	$375,000	3	n/a
Badger Institute Inc	$330,500	5	7%
The Maine Heritage Policy Center	$325,950	6	7%
Sutherland Institute	$280,300	5	5%
Garden State Initiative Inc	$276,000	6	19%
Show-Me Institute	$260,500	5	4%
Iowans for Tax Relief	$215,400	2	89%
Texas Public Policy Foundation	$210,500	4	1%
Boundary Line Foundation	$201,000	2	91%
Frontier Institute Inc	$185,000	2	19%
Mississippi Center for Public Policy	$172,900	6	5%
The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy	$167,500	6	15%
Grassroot Institute of Hawaii Inc	$148,900	3	3%
Lucy Burns Institute Inc	$148,500	4	1%
Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy So	$147,000	5	24%
American Culture Foundation	$145,000	2	100%
Washington Policy Center	$135,250	4	3%
Inspired Life Inc	$125,000	1	18%
Az Liberty Network	$125,000	1	n/a
Nevada Policy Research Institute	$113,250	3	4%
Americans for Fair Treatment Inc	$110,000	2	5%
The Maryland Public Policy Institute Inc	$100,500	2	15%
Freedom Foundation	$100,000	1	84%
New Civil Liberties Alliance	$100,000	1	n/a
Liberty Justice Center	$95,000	2	3%
Idaho Freedom Foundation Inc	$80,000	3	4%
Iowans for Tax Relief Foundation	$78,000	2	43%
Property and Environment Research Center	$75,000	1	1%
Always on Energy Research	$75,000	1	5%
National Microschooling Center	$75,000	1	14%
True Change Inc	$75,000	1	66%
Josiah Bartlett Center for Public P	$75,000	1	n/a
FOAM Fathers on a Mission	$72,750	1	n/a
Civitas Institute Inc	$71,000	2	3%
Virginia Institute for Public Policy	$65,000	1	5%
Talent Market	$65,000	3	n/a
Ellemercito Academy	$60,000	1	n/a
Red Bridge Education	$55,000	1	4%
Let Grow Inc	$55,000	1	5%
Hearts of Empowerment Inc	$50,736	1	23%
Doxa Development	$50,000	1	43%
unCommon Construction Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Love Your School	$50,000	1	8%
Badger Institute	$50,000	1	n/a
The Global Orphan Project Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Real Clear Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
Center for Law and Policy	$50,000	1	2%
Reschool	$50,000	1	6%
Eight Million Stories Inc	$50,000	1	3%
Edward Charles Foundation	$45,000	1	0%
American Public Servants Charitable Foundation	$40,000	1	21%
Nasiyah Isra-Ui Canary Academy Online Inc	$40,000	1	n/a
Young Voices	$40,000	1	2%
Kidvation Global Inc	$40,000	1	n/a
The Greathearts Foundation Inc	$37,500	1	0%
Asu Prep Global Academy	$37,500	1	0%
Center for Independent Employees	$35,000	1	5%
Pacific Legal Foundation	$35,000	1	0%
Rio Grande Foundation Inc	$32,000	1	4%
New Jersey Policy Institute	$30,000	1	8%
Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy	$25,000	1	1%
American Transparency	$24,000	1	1%
Platte Institute for Economic Research Inc	$23,750	1	3%
National Center for Justice and Liberty	$22,500	2	4%
Arkansas Policy Foundation	$17,500	1	17%
Association of American Educators Founda	$15,000	1	1%
Foundation for Government Accountability Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Incubate	$10,000	1	1%
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity	$8,500	1	n/a
The John K Maciver Institute for Public Policy Inc	$8,500	1	3%
Institute for Humane Studies	$6,000	1	0%

State Policy Network supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 91.

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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 IncVA114.6× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Roe Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · The Seminar Network Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · Charles Koch Foundation · EdChoice Inc · The Chase Foundation of Virginia

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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About State Policy Network

How much does State Policy Network give?: State Policy Network reported 71 grants totaling $6,108,745 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does State Policy Network fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (51%), Social Science (14%), Education (13%).
Who are State Policy Network's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beacon Center of Tennessee ($1.9M), Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc ($1.5M), People United for Privacy Foundation ($1.4M).
Does State Policy Network fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as State Policy Network?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, The Roe Foundation.
Where is State Policy Network based?: State Policy Network is based in VA.