Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
America's Future Foundation
America's Future Foundation (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,606,857 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($2,842,923). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $-119869
What America's Future Foundation does
Mission
The mission of America's Future Foundation is to identify and develop young professional leaders for liberty by providing unique educational, networking, and professional development programs in Washington, DC and chapters throughout the country.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
America's Future ceased to be the programmatic entity of Talent Market, which established its own 501(c)(3) to continue its work outside of America's Future. Programmatic dollars earmarked to Talent Market were contributed to the new entity.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Networking, educational, and professional development programs to identify and develop young professional leaders for liberty include seminars, roundtables, debates, gala, networking lunches, and the leading blog on professional development issues for the liberty movement. Chapters throughout the country host networking programs, guest speakers, panel discussions, and debates.
$2,959,917 spentof which $2,309,484 as grants$25,692 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,959,917.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $2.4M to $377k (−84%).
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.
97% of America's Future Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Peter Lipsett
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $69k → $1.3M.
7 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of America's Future Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 funders by total. 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
America's Future Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 America's Future Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 19% · 2019 68% · 2020 62% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 33% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
51% of America's Future Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
America's Future Foundation draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
America's Future Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like America's Future Foundation
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for America's Future Foundation: 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 America's Future Foundation?
- America's Future Foundation (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,606,857 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($2,842,923). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does America's Future Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $9,606,857 in grants to America's Future Foundation, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of America's Future Foundation?
- Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,842,923 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like America's Future Foundation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 72 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