Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC
ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,369,450 to it, the largest being American Leadership Fund Inc ($1,350,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Advancing American Freedom Inc does
Mission
Advancing american freedom promotes and defends the successful policies of recent years that yielded unprecedented prosperity at home and restored america's strength abroad, while elevating traditional american values. Aaf serves the conservative movement by developing innovative policy solutions, strategies, coalitions, and messaging that builds upon those accomplishments, expands freedom for all americans, and hampers anything that would threaten america's standing as the greatest nation on the face of the earth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
With donations from our supporters, aaf held a policy conference, had material impact on national policy through our grassroots advocacy work, and extensive coalition outreach to research the policy components that took form as the freedom agenda, distributed in print and on the organization's website. Aaf produced videos, mailings, and provided speakers for public forums and media appearances to educate the american public on policy choices that will enhance human flourishing.
$3,041,321 spent$3,467,701 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,041,321.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.3M to $5.5M (+70%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
67% of ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Marc Short
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $100k → $160k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $470k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Freedom's Future Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
61% of ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Advancing American Freedom Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC?
- ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,369,450 to it, the largest being American Leadership Fund Inc ($1,350,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,369,450 in grants to ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC?
- American Leadership Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing