· Public charity
Think Big America
THINK BIG AMERICA is a social welfare organization that is organized and operates under section 501(c)(4) of the internal revenue code.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of THINK BIG AMERICA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $3,800,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,097,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $297,500 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $465k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAKOTANS FOR HEALTH | $790,000 |
| ARIZONA FOR ABORTION ACCESS | $750,000 |
| NEVADA ALLIANCE | $550,000 |
| FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC PARTY | $500,000 |
| NEBRASKANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM | $400,000 |
| MISSOURIANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM | $250,000 |
| FREEDOM IN REPRODUCTION MARYLAND | $240,000 |
| SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA | $75,000 |
| MEN4CHOICE | $50,000 |
| NARAL PRO-CHOICE OHIO | $50,000 |
| NEBRASKA FUTURE FUND | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF VIRGINIA | $25,000 |
| ANOTHER CHANCE BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| BATTLEGROUND INDIAN COUNTRY INC | $10,000 |
| NH SENATE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 14 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFARIZONA FOR ABORTION ACCESS2× · 2024–2025 · $1.0M
- NANEVADA ALLIANCE2× · 2024–2025 · $650k · revenue 0%
- AFABORTION FORWARD2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- NFNEVADANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOMone grant, 2024 · $1.1M
- FPFLORIDIANS PROTECTING FREEDOMone grant, 2024 · $500k
- MSMONTANANS SECURING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTSone grant, 2024 · $500k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ballot issue political action committee advocating for the passage of a constitutional amendment in the State of Ohio to protect reproductive freedom.
Mobile Male Allies in the Fight for Reproductive Freedoms
Abortion forward alliance uses public education to develop a constituency that supports the right of every ohioan to make personal choices about a full range of reproductive options, including legal abortion.
Protect Women Ohio Action is a Section 501(c)(4) social welfare organization and registered ballot committee in the State of Ohio engaged in advocacy activities related to the "Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and…
Ballot measure committee supporting Measure O: San Francisco Reproductive Freedom Act
To support and protect, as a fundamental right and value, a woman's freedom to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices.
To support a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive freedom in colorado.
To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact
Our mission is to advocate for the right of all Kentuckians to exercise reproductive and religious freedom consistent with their beliefs. We use advocacy, education, and outreach to support access to reproductive health services, including…
Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom, Inc. is a coalition of statewide reproductive heal, rights, and justice organizations working to secure abortion access and protect reproductive freedom in Ohio.
Conservative Agenda for America stands for the sanctity of life and the protection of women by educating citizens about the dangers of abortion.
Amends Constitution: Specifies that prohibited discrimination includes discrimination concerning gender identity/pregnancy, related health decisions, sexual orientation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Floridians Protecting Freedom and the most unlike its peers is Greater St John Bible Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEVADANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds NEVADA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDIANS PROTECTING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds MONTANANS SECURING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds ABORTION FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights ↗
- Who funds Missourians for Constitutional Freedom ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR CONTRACEPTION ↗
- Who funds Freedom in Reproduction Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds MEN4CHOICE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF VA INC ↗
- Who funds Greater St John Bible Church ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Open Society Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc · The Fairness Project · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · Advocacy Action Fund Inc · Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc · Hopewell Fund · American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc · Reproductive Freedom for All · American Civil Liberties Union Inc · Our American Future Action
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 Think Big America 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.
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.
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How do I get to Think Big America?
Find your warmest path to Think Big America 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.