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The Searle Freedom Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19M
Granted FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Public Benefit$32MEducation$18MCivil Rights$17MSocial Science$14MCrime & Legal$8.5MArts & Culture$7.8MCommunity Improvement$4.6MEnvironment$3.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $535
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k45 grants · $5.7M
  • $250k+32 grants · $13M
$200,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$1,100,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
STATE POLICY NETWORK$885,650
FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY$800,000
COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$500,000
CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS$500,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$500,000
TAX FOUNDATION$400,000
COMMITTEE TO UNLEASH PROSPERITY$400,000
NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE$400,000
GEORGIA CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY$400,000
PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE$400,000
TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION$380,000
DEFENSE OF FREEDOM INSTITUTE$350,000
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE$300,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $500k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY: $800k → 10%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $500k → 9%GEORGIA CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY: $400k → 9%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 6%STATE POLICY NETWORK: $1.3M → 7%DEFENSE OF FREEDOM INSTITUTE: $500k → 9%COMMITTEE TO UNLEASH PROSPERITY: $400k → 8%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY: $800k → 10%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $700k → 6%STATE POLICY NETWORK: $886k → 7%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%TAX FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY: $600k → 10%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $700k → 6%STATE POLICY NETWORK: $602k → 7%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%TAX FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY: $600k → 10%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $700k → 6%STATE POLICY NETWORK: $599k → 7%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $450k → 12%COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $500k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY: $400k → 10%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $700k → 6%REASON FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%TAX FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY: $400k → 10%REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION: $400k → 14%REASON FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $500k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY: $400k → 10%COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $500k → 14%MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $475k → 17%MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $460k → 17%MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $457k → 17%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $500k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $1.3M → 14%CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY: $500k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $1.3M → 14%FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $419k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $1.1M → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 14%CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: $500k → 14%PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $450k → 14%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

VT
WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
SC
DC
OK
MS
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$102M · 95 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

95 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
27

Total granted

$102M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+22%

Still filing today

88%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $931k 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 BenefitEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureSocial ScienceCrime & LegalOther

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

  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7.9M · revenue +3%
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +57%
  • SP
    STATE POLICY NETWORK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • CR
    CONSUMERS' RESEARCH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue +17%

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 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
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
4
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
5
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
6
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education
7
National Institute for Public Policy Inc

The institute works as a public education organization that focuses on a wide spectrum of rapidly evolving foreign policy and international issues.

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8
R Street Institute

The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…

Education
9
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
10
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
11
The American Antitrust Institute Inc

Promote competition that protects consumers, businesses, and society.

Social Science
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Balaker Media Foundation. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Community College Foundatio…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/118
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,447

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

116 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. 116 of the 137 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/116
Grantees still filing
92/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC — $4,000,000 · Public BenefitFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT AC…MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $2,900,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLI…CATO INSTITUTE — $2,450,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTETAX FOUNDATION — $2,400,000 · Public BenefitTAX FOUNDATIONTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $2,330,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATI…PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $1,910,000 · Public BenefitPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RES…AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $1,425,000 · Public BenefitUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC — $1,350,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 · Public BenefitSAGAMORE INSTITUTE INC — $1,050,000 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTER — $1,000,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $950,000 · Public Benefit+13 more — $4,305,500 · Public Benefit+13 moreGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $7,910,000 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY …THE REASON FOUNDATION — $3,524,100 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATIONFRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATION — $1,450,000 · EducationFRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATIONREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION — $1,300,000 · EducationREAL CLEAR FOUNDATIONThe George Washington University — $1,200,000 · EducationAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $1,200,000 · EducationGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc — $1,125,000 · EducationEmergent Order Foundation Inc — $1,020,000 · Education+21 more — $4,497,200 · Education+21 moreTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $3,660,300 · OtherTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR…COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $2,350,000 · OtherCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INS…NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION — $1,450,000 · OtherNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION F…Institute for Humane Studies — $1,205,000 · OtherDEFENSE OF FREEDOM INSTITUTE — $1,200,000 · OtherFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC — $925,000 · OtherTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $1,750,000 · OtherTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABL…Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy — $1,065,000 · Other+45 more — $11,754,453 · Other+45 moreSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $5,540,300 · Civil RightsSTATE POLICY…INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $2,150,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FO…HAMILTON LINCOLN LAW INSTITUTE — $1,300,000 · Civil RightsHAMILTON LIN…CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS — $750,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR I…FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $750,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION F…DEFENDING EDUCATION — $750,000 · Civil RightsDEFENDING ED…Speech First Inc — $550,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $480,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $5,650,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN …Mercatus Center Inc — $1,750,000 · Social ScienceMercatus …CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT — $675,000 · Social ScienceCENTER FO…ECONOMIC POLICY INNOVATION CENTER INC — $500,000 · Social ScienceECONOMIC …+3 more — $596,000 · Social Science+3 moreMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE — $1,928,380 · Arts & CultureNew Civil Liberties Alliance — $1,800,000 · Arts & CultureVMTS EDUCATION INC — $1,450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION — $910,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRIVATE RADIO — $450,000 · Arts & CultureBALAKER MEDIA FOUNDATION — $326,200 · Arts & CultureRICOCHET PRODUCTIONS INC — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $325,000 · Arts & CulturePacific Legal Foundation — $3,050,000 · Crime & LegalLIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER — $750,000 · Crime & LegalWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY — $450,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC — $300,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY — $200,000 · Crime & Legal
Public Benefit$27,320,500Education$23,226,300Other$25,359,753Civil Rights$12,270,300Social Science$9,171,000Arts & Culture$7,439,580Crime & Legal$4,750,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $7,910,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $5,650,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $5,540,300 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC — $4,000,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $3,660,300 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $3,524,100 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $3,050,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $2,900,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $2,450,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION — $2,400,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $2,350,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $2,330,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $2,150,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE — $1,928,380 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $1,910,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetNew Civil Liberties Alliance — $1,800,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $1,750,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $1,750,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetFRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATION — $1,450,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetVMTS EDUCATION INC — $1,450,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION — $1,450,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $1,425,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC — $1,350,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION — $1,300,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetHAMILTON LINCOLN LAW INSTITUTE — $1,300,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies — $1,205,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetThe George Washington University — $1,200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $1,200,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc — $1,125,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy — $1,065,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSAGAMORE INSTITUTE INC — $1,050,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetEmergent Order Foundation Inc — $1,020,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER — $1,000,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $950,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC — $925,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION — $910,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS — $750,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $750,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER — $750,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetDEFENDING EDUCATION — $750,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT — $675,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetTaliesin Nexus — $581,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetTRUTH IN ACCOUNTING — $567,000 over 5y, 58% of budgetSpeech First Inc — $550,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetSTUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION — $545,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute — $525,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY — $525,000 over 4y, 5.3% 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…Bradley Impact Fund I…Sarah Scaife Foundati…Adolph Coors Foundati…John William Pope Fou…Charles Koch Foundati…The Seminar Network I…The Dunn FoundationTriad Foundation IncThomas W Smith Founda…Beth and Ravenel Curr…
Donors Trust IncVA107.4× affinity56 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 · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Adolph Coors Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · The Seminar Network Inc · The Dunn Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · 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 Searle Freedom Trust 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 · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Searle Freedom Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Searle Freedom Trust 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.

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 137 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home