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Tenth Amendment Project Inc

The tenth amendment project is dedicated to the notion that the tenth amendment to the united states constitution was enacted to expressly limit the powers delineated to the federal government and to reserve the rest to state governments, who understand the needs of their constituencies best.

$215k
Granted FY2019
2
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2017 to 2019.

Community Improvement$4.8MPublic Benefit$235kEmployment$225kEducation$75kCivil Rights$15k
02FY2019 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$200,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JOBS COALITION$200,000
NEXT POLICIES LLC$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%BETTER JOBS STRONGER FAMILIES POLICY SOLUTIONS: $25k → 9%SOLDIER STRONG ACCESS: $25k → 9%ILLINOIS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION: $4.8M → 11%THE JOBS COALITION: $200k → 14%CITIZEN OUTREACH INC: $35k → 13%CONSERVATIVE ACTION NETWORK: $85k → 10%CITIZEN OUTREACH INC: $30k → 13%CONSERVATIOVE POLICY FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%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 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
State Policy Institute

To promote pro-growth, progressive policy at the state level.

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2
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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3
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
4
American Policy Coalition

With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.

Public Benefit
5
Senate Opportunity Fund

Advance Conservative Solutions Through Research And Communication On Public Policy Issues.

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6
21st Century Policy Institute

21st Century Policy Institute engages in public policy advocacy including advocacy to sustain a dialog around the critical importance of Americas economic and military strength and the related implications both domestically and abroad.

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7
Rocky Mountain Policy Group

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

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8
Stronger America Inc

Stronger America is dedicated to promoting good government and advancing issues that encourage American exceptionalism and strength by educating people on the importance of limited government fiscal conservatism and family values.

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9
Jobs for Texas

Jobs for Texas (JFT) brings together all sectors of the Texas business and economic development community under one umbrella to undertake legislative initiatives that require a coordinated statewide effort. Unlike other industry, trade,…

Community Improvement
10
Securing American Greatness Inc

The organization engaged in paid public advertising to espouse its positions on border security, crime, national defense, economic and tax issues. the organization also made grants to mission-aligned organizations.

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11
United Conservative Policy Fund

Promote conservative policies in the USA.

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12
Better Government Association Inc

The better government association, inc. (the organization") works to fight waste, corruption, and inefficiency in government, in illinois by using investigative journalism techniques, litigation, and public policy studies to expose…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ILLINOIS MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION: $4,800,000 · OtherILLINOIS MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION+3 more: $65,000 · OtherILLINOIS COALITION FOR JOBS GROWTH AND PROSPERITY: $200,000 · Community ImprovementSOLDIER STRONG ACCESS: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSAVING TEXAS: $85,000 · Civil RightsCitizen Outreach Inc: $65,000 · Civil RightsCONSERVATIVE POLICY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$4,865,000Community Improvement$225,000Civil Rights$150,000Education$75,000Public Benefit$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAVING TEXAS: $85,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetCONSERVATIVE POLICY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetCitizen Outreach Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBETTER JOBS STRONGER FAMILIES POLICY SOLUTIONS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Tenth Amendment Project Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tenth Amendment Project Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
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    How do I get to Tenth Amendment Project Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Tenth Amendment Project 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 11 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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