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Texas Public Policy Foundation

The foundation's mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.

$709k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$339k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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$639kPublic Safety & Disaster$225kEducation$220kPhilanthropy$100kReligion$15k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
  • $250k+1 grant · $339k
$52,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$339,000
MICHIGAN FAIR ELECTIONS INSTITUTE$157,730
TEXAS CENTER AT SCHREINER UNIVERSITY$70,000
MICHIGAN CONSERVATIVE COALITION$52,000
STRONGER COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA$50,000
CITIZEN OUTREACH FOUNDATION$25,000
TEXAS ELECTION NETWORK$15,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $339k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $339k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MI
NV
IN
CO
AZ
DC
TX
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
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty

The mission of the acton institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.

Civil Rights
2
Citizen University

Citizen university is working to fortify the habits and skills of powerful, responsible citizenship in communities across the country. our vision is a nation of vibrant, self-governing communities where each person understands their civic…

Public Benefit
3
Minnesota Family Council

Minnesota family council (mfc) is a non-profit christian organization that is dedicated to strengthening minnesota families by advancing biblical principles in the public arena, for the glory of the lord jesus christ and the good of…

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4
Washington Monthly Institute

Dedicated to increasing public knowledge through washington monthly magazine and website www.washingtonmonthly.com published since 1969, the print magazine is the country's most important watchdog of american government, focusing on what's…

Social Science
5
Center for Christianity and Public Life

To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.

Religion
6
Common Cause Education Fund

The common cause education fund employs research, outreach, educational programming, and coalition building to increase public understanding of how our democracy works, empower citizens to hold their government accountable, and promote…

Public Benefit
7
The Interfaith Alliance Foundation Inc

Interfaith alliance is a growing network of people of diverse faiths and beliefs across the country working together to build a resilient democracy and fulfill america's promise of religious freedom and civil rights not just for some, but…

Religion
8
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
9
Rodel Institute

The rodel institute is a nonpartisan center for leadership and intellectual growth. rodel helps america's most promising leaders reach their full potential as public servants, deepen their commitment to democracy and the rule of law,…

Philanthropy
10
Common Cause

With offices in washington d.c. and 25 states and 1.5 million supporters and activists, common cause works to advance democracy reforms at federal, state, and local levels, through drafting model legislation, lobbying, public engagement,…

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11
Presidents Council State Universities of Michigan

The primary mission of the presidents council is to advocate higher education as a public good and to promote its collective value in serving the public interest and the state of michigan. the primary goal is to provide services to members…

Education
12
Constituting America Inc

Constituting america's mission is to educate students and adults about the constitution through the culture. constituting america's mission is to utilize the culture: film, internet, tv and social media to reach, educate and inform…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN FAIR ELECTIONS INSTITUTE: $157,730 · EducationMICHIGAN FAIR ELECTIONS INSTITUTEUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $150,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacSchreiner University: $70,000 · EducationSchreiner UniversityFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $339,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCILWOODSON CENTER: $125,000 · Community ImprovementWOODSON CEN…AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAUSTIN DI…CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCHRISTIAN…MICHIGAN CONSERVATIVE COALITION: $52,000 · Public BenefitSTRONG COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Civil RightsCitizen Outreach Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherTEXAS ELECTION NETWORK: $15,500 · OtherCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Other
Education$377,730Human Services$339,000Community Improvement$125,000Public Safety & Disaster$100,000Philanthropy$100,000Public Benefit$52,000Civil Rights$50,000Other$55,500

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 budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $339,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMICHIGAN FAIR ELECTIONS INSTITUTE: $157,730 over 1y, 25% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $125,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSchreiner University: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN CONSERVATIVE COALITION: $52,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSTRONG COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCitizen Outreach Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donors Trust IncVA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Texas Public Policy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Public Policy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.

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 12 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 $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home