Maryland · Nonprofit
American Advancement
American Advancement (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,342,998 to it, the largest being American Principles Project ($1,983,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $66k
What American Advancement does
Mission
Promote public policies aimed at removing barriers to economic growth and advancing economic opportunity for the American people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization conducted public engagement, directly and through grantmaking activities, to advance policies that increase economic prosperity, keep America safe, and recognize American innovation's positive impact on society
$7,307,304 spentof which $3,554,750 as grants95% of program spendingEducate the public about the societal implications of policy decisions from public entities.
$368,900 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,676,204.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $143k (−92%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2.8M → $95k.
From the IRS filings of American Advancement’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
American Advancement leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 American Advancement.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 72% · 2022 47% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
American Advancement draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
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.
Organizations like American Advancement
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Honor Bound · disregarded
- Freedom and Liberty Fund · disregarded
- Easy to vote hard to cheat · disregarded
- Grand Strand Pee Dee · disregarded
- Ohio MAGA LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Advancement: 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 American Advancement?
- American Advancement (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,342,998 to it, the largest being American Principles Project ($1,983,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Advancement have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $6,342,998 in grants to American Advancement, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Advancement?
- American Principles Project is the largest funder on record, with $1,983,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Advancement find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing