How much did STATE POLICY NETWORK grant in FY2024?

Public Benefit$8.9MEducation$5.1MSocial Science$3.1MHuman Services$1.5MPhilanthropy$863kPublic Safety & Disaster$732kCrime & Legal$519kCivil Rights$430kYouth Development$383kOther$6.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

communications educationresearch communicationslibertygovernment

2019

communication educationresearch communicationhealthcare research

2020

economic healthcarehealthcare educationcommunications trainingcommunication traininghealthcare researchtraining economictraining education

2021

tax researcheducation researchspeech researchlivesfree speechfuturebeacon

2022

greatheartsclpattorneysequitableclassicalagainlong-term

2023

studentsensered bridgesan franciscoincubateinvestmentpatients

2024

politicscontentavailablerelevantlovemembersorphan

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k14 grants · $385k
$50k–250k32 grants · $2.8M

$55,000

Median grant

States reached

$25M

Total assets

Largest grants

OPPORTUNITY ARKANSAS$166,625
SOUTH CAROLINA POLICY COUNCIL$160,000
LIBERTAS INSTITUTE$155,000
GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION$143,500
OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS$142,862
YANKEE INSTITUTE$124,000
GEORGIA CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY$122,000
INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT$112,000
PALMETTO PROMISE INSTITUTE$105,500
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION$105,000
EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$100,000
PIONEER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH$95,000
PELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY$93,000
CARDINAL INSTITUTE FOR WEST VIRGINIA POLICY$90,000
INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE$75,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$26M · 60 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$26M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%

+59%

Still filing today

95%

89%

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 BenefitEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

GC
GEORGIA CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +72%
BC
BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +126%
PU
PEOPLE UNITED FOR PRIVACY FOUNDATION
4× · 2019–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +2180% · 93% of their budget

Funded once

IL
INSPIRED LIFE INC
one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -68%
FF
FREEDOM FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +46% · 84% of their budget
NA
NEVADA ACTION FOR SCHOOL OPTIONSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +328%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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Contemporary Policy Institute

Philanthropy

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Public policy research/education dedicated to principles of free enterprise & limited government.

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Institute for Public Accuracy

The Institute for Public Accuracy reaches millions of Americans by arranging radio, TV, print and multimedia interviews for progressive policy analysts, highlighting key issues beneath the surface of the news.

Arts & Culture

The Libertarian Institute

Provide information regarding libertarian principles.

Education

Technology Policy Institute

International

The Lincoln Institute of Public

To promote the ideals of free market economics, individual liberty, and limited government through the conduct of public opinion research.

Social Science

Institute for Public Affairs

Publication of a periodical magazine covering political and social justice movements.

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The Institute for Foreign Policy

The institute performs research which has a three-fold purpose: to examine issues of u.s. foreign policy, formulate policy options and programs for submission to u.s. government agencies and dissemination to the public, and to train…

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Justice Policy Institute

The Justice Policy Institute is dedicated to reducing the use of incarceration and involvement in the justice system by promoting fair and effective policies.

Crime & Legal

International Peace Institute Inc

The international peace institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen inclusive multilateralism for a more peaceful and sustainable planet. through its research, convening, and strategic advising, ipi provides…

International

Institute for Political Innovation Inc

Increase understanding of public policies and promote nonpartisan political innovation.

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Government and the most unlike its peers is Uncommon Construction Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/94

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,471

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

87/87

Grantees still filing

67/87

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Public Benefit$8,930,750Other$7,544,250Education$5,107,600Social Science$3,132,868Human Services$1,520,344Philanthropy$862,625Public Safety & Disaster$731,712

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donors Trust IncVA119.5× affinity63 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 · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Roe Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · Charles Koch Foundation · EdChoice Inc · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · John William Pope Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation STATE POLICY NETWORK funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GREAT AMERICAN FOUNDATION AMERICAN CULTURE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 48.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 454206354 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GREAT AMERICAN FOUNDATION AMERICAN CULTURE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to State Policy Network?

Find your warmest path to State Policy Network through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

STATE POLICY NETWORK

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to State Policy Network?

More from the funding graph

STATE POLICY NETWORK

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to State Policy Network?

More from the funding graph