· Public charity
Tax Foundation
To achieve simple, sensible tax policy at the federal and state levels by producing and disseminating basic information and economically principled analysis of tax policy issues and the size of the tax burden borne by americans at all levels of government.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $21k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT KEFIM'S WORK IN TRANSLATING INTO GREEK, PRINTING, AND PUBLICIZING THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL TAX COMPETITIVENESS INDEX. · TO SUPPORT PROMETHEUS' WORK IN TRANSLATING INTO GERMAN, PRINTING, AND PUBLICIZING THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL TAX COMPETITIVENESS INDEX.
How this is measured
1 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Tax Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tax Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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