· Public charity
The Fund for American Studies
THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SUNDIAL | $21,152 |
| STANFORD REVIEW | $14,895 |
| THE IRISH ROVER | $14,733 |
| THE SPECTATOR | $14,720 |
| THE JEFFERSON INDEPENDENT | $14,123 |
| CLAREMONT INDEPENDENT | $11,703 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $10,913 |
| FLORIDA FINIBUS | $10,656 |
| SALIENT PUBLICATIONS | $10,476 |
| THE TUFTS TRIBUNE | $9,427 |
| BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC | $8,783 |
| PENNSYLVANIA POST | $8,756 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,317 |
| THE TEXAS HORN | $7,994 |
| WAKE REPORT | $7,156 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $493k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -95% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JIJEFFERSON INDEPENDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA2× · 2024–2025 · $29k
- IRIRISH ROVER INCORPORATED2× · 2024–2025 · $28k · revenue +57% · 31% of their budget
- SRSTANFORD REVIEW2× · 2024–2025 · $26k
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICSone grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue -95%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CLCAROLINA LIBERTY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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.
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The organization is operated for literary and educational purposes.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fund for American Studies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fund for American Studies. Bigger dots raise more.
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