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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$8.6MCivil Rights$635kHealth$610kEducation$500kYouth Development$500kCrime & Legal$500kPublic Safety & Disaster$350kScience & Tech$300kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $8,720,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,046,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $326,150 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN ASSOC OF PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS & GYNECOLOGISTS$100,000
FORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK$100,000
AMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION$100,000
CLAREMONT INSTITUTE$100,000
FEDS FOR FREEDOM$100,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

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

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+18%
+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
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

  • FL
    FORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +49%
  • 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%
  • CF
    COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +32%
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
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
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
3
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
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
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
6
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
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
Congressional Integrity Project

The Congressional Integrity Projects focus is to root out hypocrisy and restore integrity to the congressional system.

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12
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Accountability Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 50 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
25/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Immigration Accountability Project: $100,000 · Civil RightsImmigratio…Independent Women's Forum: $100,000 · Civil RightsIndependen…Speech First Inc: $100,000 · Civil RightsSpeech Fir…CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $100,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR…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…State Financial Officers Foundation Inc: $100,000 · EducationSTUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · EducationDEFENSE OF FREEDOM INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTRUMP VANCE INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget170 FREEDOM MILWAUKEE 2024 HOST COMMITTEE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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 budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetState Financial Officers Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSTUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetImmigration Accountability Project: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetDEFENSE OF FREEDOM INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSpeech First Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetASSOCIATION OF PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS: $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetAMERICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetFEDS 4 MED FREEDOM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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 budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSave Our Allies: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN REFORMER: $50,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetStudents For Fair Admissions Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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.

    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 50 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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