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· Public charity

State Solutions Inc

To promote the common good and general welfare of the citizens ofvarious states and of all americans by promoting sound public policy for the states, and supporting organizations with a similar mission.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Employment$5.7MPublic Benefit$4.4MCommunity Improvement$2.0MPhilanthropy$950kCivil Rights$225k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COALITION FOR PROSPEROUS COMMUNITIES INC$1,000,000
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COALITION FOR PROSPEROUS COMMUNITIES INC: $1.0M → 14%OUR FIRST PRINCIPLES FUND INC: $150k → 5%WMC ISSUES MOBILIZATION COUNCIL INC: $1.3M → 10%CLT HOST 2020 INC: $1.0M → 10%DONORS TRUST INC: $950k → 9%MAINE POLICY INSTITUTE: $55k → 7%OHIOANS FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS INC: $1.4M → 14%EMPOWER WISCONSIN INC: $156k → 10%RIGHT DIRECTION AMERICA INC: $250k → 9%OHIOANS FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS INC: $100k → 14%EMPOWER WISCONSIN INC: $125k → 10%OHIO CONSERVATIVE RESTORATION PROJECT: $80k → 14%50 STATES ACTION FUND INC: $500k → 14%THE CONCORD FUND: $150k → 14%50 STATES ACTION FUND INC: $125k → 14%GET FAMILIES BACK TO WORK: $5.5M → 14%GET FAMILIES BACK TO WORK: $170k → 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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 4 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$8.1M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-45%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • GF
    GET FAMILIES BACK TO WORK
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5.7M · revenue -99% · 44% of their budget
  • OF
    OHIOANS FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.5M · 42% of their budget
  • 5S
    50 States Action Fund Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $625k · revenue -45% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • WI
    WMC ISSUES MOBILIZATION COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.3M · revenue +23% · 29% of their budget
  • CH
    CLT HOST 2020 INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -100%
  • RD
    RIGHT DIRECTION AMERICA
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +27%
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
Virginia Rising Action Inc

The organization is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting goverment over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…

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2
Conservatives for America

Conservatives for America is focused on driving conservative unity and amplifying policy winds in congress.

Civil Rights
3
Freedom Fighters Foundation

Freedom Fighters Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization dedicated to the core principles of constitutionally limited government, conservative family values, free markets and individual liberty. Our mission is to advance…

Community Improvement
4
Rocky Mountain Policy Group

Promoting a strong state economy with limited government taxes and regulation.

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5
Michigan Rising Action

Michigan Rising Action is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting government over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…

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6
Conservative Policy Council Fund

To advance policies that promote limited government, support economic growth and business, and seek strong international relationships that enhance American national security and trade objectives.

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7
Empower Wisconsin Foundation Inc

Empower Wisconsin Foundation's mission is to educate both the public and leaders of grassroots initiatives on criminal justice reform, educational choice, limited government, freedom of speech, transparency in government and private…

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8
Defend Your Vote

To oppose a Michigan ballot measure

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9
Article Iv

Our mission is to advance policies that promote freedom and

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10
Pennsylvanians for Fair Courts

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, and government programs to protect against judicial gerrymandering and other legislative barriers to fair courts, and to conduct research about and publicize the positions of elected…

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11
Colorado Rising State Action

The organization is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting government over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…

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12
Michigan Conservative Action Policies

Michigan conservative action policies (mcap) is an organization dedicated to educating michiganders on important policy issues. the organization conducts policy research and public polling in michigan to better understand current opinions…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Right Direction America. 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 14 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GET FAMILIES BACK TO WORK: $5,670,000 · OtherGET FAMILIES BACK TO WORKOHIOANS FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS: $1,525,000 · OtherOHIOANS FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONSWMC ISSUES MOBILIZATION COUNCIL INC: $1,280,000 · OtherWMC ISSUES MOBILIZATION COUNCIL INCCoalition for Prosperous Communities Inc: $1,000,000 · OtherCoalition for Prosperous Communities Inc50 States Action Fund Inc: $625,000 · Other50 States Action Fund Inc+5 more: $910,500 · Other+5 moreCLT HOST 2020 INC: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitDonors Trust Inc: $950,000 · PhilanthropyVirginia Citizens Defense League Inc: $225,000 · Crime & LegalTHE MAINE HERITAGE POLICY CENTER: $55,000 · Education
Other$11,010,500Public Benefit$1,000,000Philanthropy$950,000Crime & Legal$225,000Education$55,000

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 budgetGET FAMILIES BACK TO WORK: $5,670,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetOHIOANS FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS: $1,525,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetWMC ISSUES MOBILIZATION COUNCIL INC: $1,280,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetCLT HOST 2020 INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCoalition for Prosperous Communities Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDonors Trust Inc: $950,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget50 States Action Fund Inc: $625,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetEmpower Wisconsin Inc: $280,500 over 2y, 47% of budgetRIGHT DIRECTION AMERICA: $250,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetVirginia Citizens Defense League Inc: $225,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetOHIO CONSERVATIVE RESTORATION PROJECT: $80,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetTHE MAINE HERITAGE POLICY CENTER: $55,000 over 1y, 5.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization State Solutions Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from State Solutions Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to State Solutions Inc?

    Find your warmest path to State Solutions 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 14 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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