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· Public charity

The American Promise Inc

To conduct various programs to educate citizens on the societal benefits of sound economic, regulatory and legal policies.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$540k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Public Benefit$6.2MCommunity Improvement$2.3MCivil Rights$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.1MEnvironment$185kHuman Services$100kInternational$25kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $245k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$525,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REPUBLICAN PARTY OF FLORIDA$540,000
FLORIDA PC$525,000
LATINO ALLIANCE$195,000
CITIZENS FOR COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TAMPA AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $100k → 13%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.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 3 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
27

Total granted

$1.4M
$8.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

33%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR AMERICA'S FAMILIES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue -71% · 89% of their budget
  • FO
    Friends of American Water Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $185k · 100% of their budget
  • LA
    LATINO ALLIANCE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $110k

Funded once

  • SG
    STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue -41% · 34% of their budget
  • GU
    GROW UNITED
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
  • SS
    STATE SOLUTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +52% · 27% of their budget
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
Floridians for Tax Fairness Inc

The organization's exempt purpose is political advocacy, to promote awareness and fairness in florida and in the united states taxation.

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2
Floridians for Tax Fairness

Voter education and awareness

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3
Florida First

To invest in the activation, long-term engagement, and mobilization

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4
Floridians Protecting Freedom

Floridians protecting freedom advocated for the citizen-led ballot initiative that limits government interference with reproductive freedom through petition circulation and voter outreach.

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5
Floridians for a Fair Democracy Inc

To support Florida's Voting Restoration Amendment which would allow people who have paid their debt to society to earn back their right to vote.

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6
Miami-Dade County Citizens Defending Freedom Usa Inc

To empower and equip American citizens to defend their freedoms and liberties at the local level.

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7
Standing Up for Florida Inc

The corporation is organized and operated primarily for the purpose of directly or indirectly accepting contributions and or making expenditures to influence local or statewide constitutional ballots or other issues that promote business…

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8
Opportunities for All Floridians Inc

Opportunity For All Floridians advocates for hardworking Floridians by championing economic policies that put people over profits ensuring that everyday residents benefit more than large corporations and special interests. We are committed…

Civil Rights
9
All About Florida Committee Inc

The mission is to gather, analyze and disseminate data and information relating to the government of Florida at the state, county and municipal levels and the issues which impact and affect their ability to govern, including, but not…

Civil Rights
10
Florida Decides Healthcare Inc

The mission of the organization is to initiate and support a direct democracy campaign to expand medicaid in the state of florida.

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11
Florida Justice Association Research & Education Foundation Inc

To enhance and foster an understanding of the justice system and the role of each citizen in the system as an advocate for justice and fairness. to promote the study and understanding of florida's justice system and how its preservation…

Community Improvement
12
Forward Florida Action Inc

Partnering with organizations and grassroots volunteers we build the power of Floridians: registering and re-engaging voters who are unseen and unheard and electing more leaders that share our values making state legislature more diverse.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Better Miami Dade Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 34 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/19
Grantees still filing
6/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROW UNITED: $1,150,000 · OtherGROW UNITEDA BETTER MIAMI DADE INC: $954,750 · OtherA BETTER MIAMI DADE INCSUNSHINE STATE FUTURE INC: $600,000 · OtherSUNSHINE STATE FUTURE INCRepublican Party of Florida: $540,000 · OtherRepublican Party of FloridaFLORIDA PC: $525,000 · OtherFLORIDA PCCOMMON SENSE AMERICA INC: $505,000 · OtherCOMMON SENSE AMERICA INCNEW REPUBLICAN PAC: $200,000 · OtherLATINO ALLIANCE: $195,000 · Other+17 more: $1,166,000 · Other+17 moreSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · Public BenefitSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION FOR AMERICA'S FAMILIES: $1,138,500 · Public BenefitFOUNDATION FOR AMERICA'S FAMILIESSTATE SOLUTIONS INC: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitSTATE SOLUTIONS INCFLORIDA CONSUMER ALLIANCE INC: $150,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $50,000 · Public BenefitCONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC: $750,000 · Community ImprovementCIVIC VOTER ENGAGEMENT: $385,000 · Civil RightsTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Human Services314ACTION: $25,000 · International
Other$5,835,750Public Benefit$4,338,500Community Improvement$750,000Civil Rights$385,000Human Services$100,000International$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AMERICA'S FAMILIES: $1,138,500 over 2y, 89% of budgetSTATE SOLUTIONS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetA BETTER MIAMI DADE INC: $954,750 over 1y, 30% of budgetCONSUMER ACTION FOR A STRONG ECONOMY INC: $750,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetCOMMON SENSE AMERICA INC: $505,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetFriends of American Water Inc: $185,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetFLORIDA CONSUMER ALLIANCE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetFLORIDAS FUTURE FIRST INC: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFLORIDA CONSUMER AWARENESS FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FLORIDA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFLORIDIANS DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAB FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget314ACTION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget50 States Action Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A WORKING AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Pharmaceutical Resear…
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The American Promise Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Promise Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The American Promise 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 34 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.

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