How much does The Concord Fund give?

The Concord Fund reported 36 grants totaling $21,363,003 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 46 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Concord Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (49%), Civil Rights (33%), Community Improvement (5%).

Who are The Concord Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Conservative Agenda for America ($20M), One Nation ($17M), Republican Attorneys General Assoc ($16M).

Does The Concord Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Concord Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Action Network Inc, The 85 Fund, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

Where is The Concord Fund based?

The Concord Fund is based in VA.

The Concord Fund

The Concord Fund at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$21M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.5M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Benefit$87MCivil Rights$58MCommunity Improvement$9.1MHealth$7.5MCrime & Legal$4.1MReligion$4.0MHuman Services$2.0MEmployment$1.8MOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k6 grants · $135k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
$250k+16 grants · $20M

$200,000

Median grant

States reached

$42k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Defend Missouri	$2,500,000
Truth and Courage PAC	$2,500,000
Republican State Leadership	$2,000,000
Republican Party of Florida	$2,000,000
Republican Attorney Generals Assoc	$1,500,000
One Nation	$1,500,000
Vote No On 3	$1,000,000
Faith Freedom Coalition	$1,000,000
Catholic Vote Civic Action	$1,000,000
Judicial Fairness PAC	$1,000,000
State Armor Action	$1,000,000
Pole Position PAC	$750,000
Colorados Wildlife Deserve Better	$600,000
NOGFORSD	$500,000
Congressional Leadership Fund	$500,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$152M · 47 repeat orgs$25M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$152M

$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%

Still filing today

72%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionOther

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

ON
ONE NATION
5× · 2019–2025 · $17M · revenue +117%
SB
Susan B Anthony List Inc
5× · 2019–2024 · $14M · revenue +134% · 35% of their budget
AA
ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $3.3M · revenue ×25 · 57% of their budget

Funded once

CF
Club for Growth Action Missouri
one grant, 2024 · $3.0M
NA
N2 AMERICA INC
one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -21%
CF
Center for Worker Progress Action Inc
one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue 0%

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.

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

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

Fdd Action

FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement

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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Liberty Defense Foundation

The purpose of the Organization is to engage in activities and promote public policies that increase individual freedom and accountable government.

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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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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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Great America Coalition

To educate the public on policy issues.

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America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement

Individual Liberties Alliance

The organization engages in activities and promote public policies that increase individual freedom and accountable government.

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Americans for Public Trust

The Organization's 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

Policies Solutions and Action for America

To advance social welfare by identifying social problems and advancing solutions through public policies that unite the Nation and defend capitalism, freedom, and liberty.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fga Action Inc; the most unlike its peers is Colorados Wildlife Deserves Better. 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

78 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. 78 of the 108 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/78

Grantees still filing

24/78

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$102,711,500Public Benefit$22,914,322Civil Rights$21,683,333Education$15,009,700Health$5,187,883Community Improvement$5,140,000Religion$3,960,000

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.

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.

American Action Network IncDC26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Action Network Inc · The 85 Fund · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · American Property Casualty Insurance Association · Edison Electric Institute Inc · 45committee Inc · American Economic Freedom Alliance Inc · American Petroleum Institute · International Franchise Association · Ending Spending Inc · Ardleigh Impact Corp · Alliance for Automotive Innovation Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get 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 · 0–15%

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Concord Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Concord Fund 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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