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The Heritage Foundation

To formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional american values, and a strong national defense.

$9.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$8.6MCivil Rights$635kHealth$610kEducation$500kYouth Development$500kCrime & Legal$500kPublic Safety & Disaster$350kScience & Tech$300kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $8,720,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,046,150 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $326,150 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+7 grants · $7.1M
$100,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$414M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE$3,500,000
170 FREEDOM MILWAUKEE 2024 HOST COMMITTEE INC$1,000,000
TRUMP VANCE INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC$1,000,000
PERSONNEL POLICY OPERATIONS INC$500,000
VOTE FOR AMERICA$500,000
AMERICAN MOVEMENT FOUNDATION$305,000
EDMUND BURKE FOUNDATION INC$250,000
HERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA$200,000
CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA$150,000
FORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK$100,000
AMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION$100,000
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$100,000
OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS$100,000
IMMIGRATION ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT$100,000
CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE$100,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–24, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAVE OUR ALLIES: $50k → 13%FEDS FOR FREEDOM: $100k → 10%EDMUND BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 14%COMMUNIO FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
WI
MI
NY
NV
IN
OH
CA
CO
WV
VA
AZ
KS
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

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 — 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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 8 repeat orgs$9.5M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
21

Total granted

$3.4M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • FL
    FORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +29%
  • CW
    CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA
    4× · 2019–2024 · $395k · revenue +31%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    2× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -59% · 29% of their budget
  • VO
    VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -26%
  • IW
    Independent Women's Forumgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +104%

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.

1
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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2
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
3
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
4
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
5
Foundation for Public Affairs

Our mission is to conduct and support research on issues and trends that affect the practice of public affairs and organizations' ability to thrive in a dynamic business environment. Our research provides actionable intelligence on…

Public Benefit
6
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
7
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
8
Americans for Tax Reform

American for Tax Reform (ATR) is a national grassroots organization focused on increasing public awareness about the size and regulations of government and rallying support for lower taxes, smaller government and congressional…

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9
Institute for Policy Innovation

It is the mission of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) to provide education, research, analysis and recommendations to policy makers, opinion leaders and the American people designed to help solve public policy problems through…

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10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
11
State Policy Network

State policy network's (spn) mission is to catalyze thriving, durable freedom movements in every state, anchored with high-performing, independent think tanks.

Civil Rights
12
Center for the National Interest

The center is a non-partisan public policy institution established by former president richard nixon. its current programs focus on energy, security, climate change and u.s. relations with china, japan, russia and the middle east.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Accountability Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Military Veterans SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …
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 16 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%26%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr15%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%54%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr15%0%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 26% of your grantees by number, and just 54% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
12%
1,599/12,951

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.

04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
22/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE — $3,500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTEVICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTRUMP VANCE INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC — $1,000,000 · OtherTRUMP VANCE INAUGURAL COMMIT…THE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $150,000 · OtherFORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK — $500,000 · OtherFORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORKEdmund Burke Foundation Inc — $250,000 · OtherEdmund Burke Foundation IncOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC — $250,000 · OtherOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC A…READY WILLING & WORKING INC — $181,000 · OtherREADY WILLING & WORKING INC+15 more — $880,000 · Other+15 moreVote for America — $500,000 · Public BenefitVote for Ameri…CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA — $395,000 · Public BenefitCONCERNED WOME…AMERICAN MOVEMENT FOUNDATION — $305,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN MOVEM…STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $105,000 · Public BenefitSTATE GOVERNME…AMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN ACCOU…TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Public BenefitPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $75,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $50,000 · Public BenefitHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA — $1,600,000 · HealthHERITAGE ACTIO…Personnel Policy Operations Inc — $500,000 · Civil RightsPersonnel …ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $200,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE D…Independent Women's Forum — $100,000 · Civil RightsIndependen…Immigration Accountability Project — $100,000 · Civil RightsImmigratio…CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $100,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR…Speech First Inc — $100,000 · Civil RightsSpeech Fir…Americans United for Life Inc — $60,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $25,000 · Civil Rights170 FREEDOM MILWAUKEE 2024 HOST COMMITTEE INC — $1,000,000 · Community Improvement170 FREEDO…CAPITOL HILL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT — $158,302 · Community ImprovementCAPITOL HI…STUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · EducationDEFENSE OF FREEDOM INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES INC — $100,000 · EducationState Financial Officers Foundation Inc — $100,000 · EducationGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc — $75,000 · EducationSusan B Anthony List Inc — $65,000 · EducationTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES — $50,000 · EducationMoms for Liberty — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$3,650,000Other$3,211,000Public Benefit$1,605,000Health$1,600,000Civil Rights$1,185,000Community Improvement$1,158,302Education$525,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE — $3,500,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA — $1,600,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budget170 FREEDOM MILWAUKEE 2024 HOST COMMITTEE INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTRUMP VANCE INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVote for America — $500,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetFORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK — $500,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetPersonnel Policy Operations Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA — $395,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN MOVEMENT FOUNDATION — $305,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC — $250,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetEdmund Burke Foundation Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREADY WILLING & WORKING INC — $181,000 over 5y, 92% of budgetCAPITOL HILL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT — $158,302 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $150,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetVICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSTUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetImmigration Accountability Project — $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFEDS 4 MED FREEDOM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetDEFENSE OF FREEDOM INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetState Financial Officers Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS — $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetSpeech First Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $75,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Inc — $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN REFORMER — $50,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetSave Our Allies — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStudents For Fair Admissions Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMoms for Liberty — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican College of Pediatricians — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Donors Trust IncThe Lynde and Harry B…Sarah Scaife Foundati…Adolph Coors Foundati…Bradley Impact Fund I…John William Pope Fou…Servant FoundationState Policy NetworkThe Roe FoundationThe Searle Freedom Tr…Atlas Economic Resear…Beth and Ravenel Curr…
Donors Trust IncVA45.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Adolph Coors Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Servant Foundation · State Policy Network · The Roe Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation

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 organization The Heritage Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    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

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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