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The Revitalization Project

Build a stronger economy through the promotion of pro-growth policies and a stronger education system.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$600k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.6MEmployment$685kCivil Rights$608kEnvironment$530kYouth Development$500kPublic Safety & Disaster$200kCommunity Improvement$175kHealth$24k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$175,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$600k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Jobs and Growth PAC$600,000
Building Our Future Today$500,000
A Public Voice$250,000
Economic Future Funds$225,000
Believe in Life and Libty PAC$217,500
United for Clean Power$175,000
American Exceptionalism Inst$125,000
Driving Momentum Inc$100,000
American Values First$100,000
Ohio Works$85,000
Safe Michigan Communities$75,000
Mountaineer Action PAC$47,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%Driving Momentum Inc: $100k → 11%Americans Keep Country First: $225k → 14%Conservatives for our Future: $75k → 13%Believe in Life and Libty PAC: $218k → 27%Ohio Works: $85k → 15%A Public Voice: $250k → 6%American Exceptionalism Inst: $750k → 7%American Policy Coalition: $75k → 9%Louisiana Deserves Better PAC: $150k → 19%United for Clean Power: $175k → 11%Building Our Future Today: $500k → 14%A Public Voice: $72k → 6%American Exceptionalism Inst: $400k → 7%Anne Arundel: $24k → 9%American Jobs and Growth Fund: $690k → 14%Commonwealth Conserv Fund: $200k → 6%American Exceptionalism Inst: $125k → 7%Affordable Energy Fund PAC: $155k → 6%American Principles Project: $140k → 7%Safe Michigan Communities: $75k → 6%Mountaineer Action PAC: $48k → 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.
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 3 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$2.2M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-21%
+108%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • AE
    American Exceptionalism Institute
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue -89%
  • AP
    A PUBLIC VOICE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $322k · revenue -21%
  • AV
    American Values First
    2× · 2020–2024 · $260k

Funded once

  • AJ
    American Jobs and Growth Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $690k · revenue +110%
  • AK
    Americans Keep Country First
    one grant, 2022 · $225k
  • CC
    Commonwealth Conserv Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
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.

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American Jobs and Security

American Jobs and Security was formed to promote the idea of peace and prosperity through strong security policies.

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2
American Advancement

Promote public policies aimed at removing barriers to economic growth and advancing economic opportunity for the American people.

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3
Government Integrity Fund

To Conduct research and educate the public about various policy issues across the United States.

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4
Defend Us Inc

The organization works to defend, protect, and advance bedrock American values.

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5
Independence and Freedom Network

Independence and Freedom Network was founded to promote solutions to pressing public policy problems related to individual liberty and the expansion of personal freedom.

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6
Jobs and Progress Fund Inc

To promote the common good and general welfare through education and legislative participation on public matters that significantly impact the economy, job growth and retention, employment and that are designed to promote fiscal…

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7
Citizens for a Working America Inc

To promote sound economic policy: 1 By engaging in citizen led initiative and referendum efforts, 2 By participating in the public policy arena, and 3 By providing educational services to the general public.

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8
American Voice

American Voice's mission is to create a more prosperous, fair and free America. We seek to harness the voices of American Citizens to advance free market reforms to our laws and regulations.

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9
Policy Action for a Clean Tomorrow Inc

Clean Tomorrow advances policies that reduce climate emissions by turning policy ambition into action. We work to catalyze rapid change that will accelerate the innovation and growth of clean energy.

Environment
10
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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11
21st Century Policy Institute

21st Century Policy Institute engages in public policy advocacy including advocacy to sustain a dialog around the critical importance of Americas economic and military strength and the related implications both domestically and abroad.

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12
Iowa Policy Project

The mission of Iowa Policy Project is to promote public policy that fosters economic opportunity while safeguarding the health and well-being of Iowa's people and the environment. By providing a foundation of fact-based, objective research…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Policy Coalition; the most unlike its peers is Driving Momentum Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Jobs and Growth Fund: $690,000 · OtherAmerican Jobs and Growth FundDefend US PAC: $600,000 · OtherDefend US PACBuilding our future today: $500,000 · OtherBuilding our future todayAmerican Values First: $260,000 · OtherAmerican Values FirstEconomic Future Fund: $225,000 · OtherEconomic Future FundAmericans Keep Country First: $225,000 · OtherAmericans Keep Country FirstBelieve in Life and Libty PAC: $217,500 · OtherBelieve in Life and Libty PACCommonwealth Conserv Fund: $200,000 · OtherOhio Prosperity Fund: $175,000 · OtherAffordable Energy Fund PAC: $155,000 · OtherLouisiana Deserves Better PAC: $150,000 · Other+8 more: $631,500 · Other+8 moreAmerican Exceptionalism Institute: $1,575,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican Exceptionalism Inst…A PUBLIC VOICE INC: $322,285 · Public BenefitAmerican Policy Coalition: $75,000 · Public BenefitUnited for Clean Power: $175,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Principles Project: $140,000 · Civil Rights
Other$4,029,000Community Improvement$1,575,000Public Benefit$397,285Environment$175,000Civil Rights$140,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Exceptionalism Institute: $1,575,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetAmerican Jobs and Growth Fund: $690,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetA PUBLIC VOICE INC: $322,285 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetEconomic Future Fund: $225,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetUnited for Clean Power: $175,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetAmerican Principles Project: $140,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSafe Streets Safe Communities: $125,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDRIVING MOMENTUM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetOhio Works: $85,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Policy Coalition: $75,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

  • Who funds American Exceptionalism Institute ↗
  • Who funds American Jobs and Growth Fund ↗
  • Who funds A PUBLIC VOICE INC ↗
  • Who funds Economic Future Fund ↗
  • Who funds United for Clean Power ↗
  • Who funds American Principles Project ↗
  • Who funds Safe Streets Safe Communities ↗
  • Who funds DRIVING MOMENTUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Ohio Works ↗
  • Who funds American Policy Coalition ↗

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.

A Public Voice IncAmerican Policy Coali…American AdvancementAmerican Jobs and Gro…American Exceptionali…Prosperity Alliance I…American Jobs and Sec…Government Integrity …Citizens for a Workin…
A Public Voice IncVA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: A Public Voice Inc · American Policy Coalition · American Advancement · American Jobs and Growth Fund · American Exceptionalism Institute · Prosperity Alliance Inc · American Jobs and Security · Government Integrity Fund · Citizens for a Working America 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 Revitalization Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Revitalization Project. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 24 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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