How much did The Concord Fund grant in FY2023?

The Concord Fund reported 46 grants totaling $44,319,629 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is The Concord Fund based?

The Concord Fund is based in VA.

The Concord Fund

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· Public charity

The Concord Fund

The mission of The Concord Fund is to promote the vision of liberty and justice in America, fidelity to the principles of federalism and the rule of law, to educate and organize citizens in this mission, and to encourage reforms that achieve these ends.

$44M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$8.8M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of The Concord Fund’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

orderfree marketyounger generationbenefitpartycountryempower

2021

importantmakersideasaffectingviewsbetter jobsfighting

2022

pufpfaithcourtsimpactnonpartisan advocacynationlives

2023

analysisincreasecommitteeconsumersknowledge understandingprotecteconomic

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k7 grants · $169k
$50k–250k9 grants · $820k
$250k+30 grants · $43M

$500,000

Median grant

States reached

$735k

Total assets

Largest grants

Susan B Anthony List Inc$8,800,000
Republican Governors Association$6,000,000
Republican Attorney Generals Assoc$4,000,000
Protect Women Ohio Action$3,000,000
Bluegrass Freedom Action$3,000,000
Republican State Leadership$2,550,000
Heritage Action for America$1,577,883
Foundation for Fair Courts LLC$1,500,000
Catholic Vote Civic Action$1,000,000
Center for Worker Progress Action Inc$1,000,000
WMC Issue Mobilization Council$1,000,000
Fair Lanes America$1,000,000
Faith Freedom Coalition$1,000,000
People United For Privacy$800,000
Do No Harm Action$750,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$83M · 28 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$83M

$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+27%

Still filing today

75%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

ON
One Nation
3× · 2019–2022 · $13M · revenue +117%
SB
Susan B Anthony List Inc
4× · 2019–2023 · $12M · revenue +228% · 35% of their budget
HA
Heritage Action for America
3× · 2021–2023 · $4.4M · revenue +52%

Funded once

AF
American Future Fundgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +66%
NR
National Rifle Association
one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -44%
NA
N2 America Inc
one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -91%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Act for America

Advocacy concerning democratic values, national security and defense; lobbying of government officials in favor of policies that further the defense of the u.s. and its constitution; development of coalitions with other organizations to…

Civil Rights

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

Fdd Action

Advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. national security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement

Advancing American Freedom Inc

Advancing american freedom (aaf) is a 501(c)(4) organization advocating for conservative values and policy proposals by means of policy conferences, the development of the freedom agenda, coalition meetings, and amicus briefs filed with…

International

American Prosperity Alliance

American Prosperity Alliances mission is to advocate for legislative and regulatory policies that advance economic prosperity in America.

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Americans for Public Trust

The Organizations mission is to restore trust in government by holding officials and groups accountable for corrupt and unethical behavior through investigation legal action and reporting

Arts & Culture

American Action Network Inc

The American Action Network creates, encourages and promotes center-right policies based on the principles of freedom, limited government, American exceptionalism and strong national security.

Human Services

Defend Democracy Now

Conduct research and expose abuse of authority and power by government authorities and the deleterious effect such actions have on american democracy.

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Protecting Liberty Justice and Freedom

Organized for the purpose to engage in activities and promote public policies that protect individual liberties and argue for greater government accountability and transparency.

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The National Foundation for

The national foundation for americn policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit

Center for Law and Policy

The Center for Law and Policy (CLP) is a public policy organization dedicated to promoting and defending liberty, equality before the law, and the sovereignty of the states. To this end, CLP promotes open discussion with state attorneys…

Arts & Culture

Foreign Policy for America

Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fga Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Defend Your Vote. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/76

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,489

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/58

Grantees still filing

33/58

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$49,611,000Public Benefit$17,404,322Education$12,559,700Civil Rights$9,938,333Health$4,437,883Community Improvement$4,390,000Religion$2,885,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Economic Freedom Alliance IncDC18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Economic Freedom Alliance Inc · American Action Network Inc · Edison Electric Institute Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · 45committee Inc · Ending Spending Inc · Restoration of America · The 85 Fund · American Property Casualty Insurance Association · American Petroleum Institute · Center for a Free Economy Inc · American Future Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation The Concord Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: People United For Privacy.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823395877 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on People United For Privacy, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Concord Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Concord Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Concord Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Concord Fund?

More from the funding graph

The Concord Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Concord Fund?

More from the funding graph