Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Americans for Tax Reform
Americans for Tax Reform (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,724,517 to it, the largest being Motion Picture Association Inc ($525,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Americans for Tax Reform does
Mission
American for Tax Reform (ATR) is a national grassroots organization focused on increasing public awareness about the size and regulations of government and rallying support for lower taxes, smaller government and congressional accountability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Issue Development and Education: ATR watches and tracks policies and initiatives beyond the traditional tax increase model.
$2,270,497 spentof which $275,000 as grants60% of program spendingOutreach: ATR uses its network of pledge signers and works with a coalition of like-minded groups to promote pro-taxpayer, small government policies.
$728,308 spent19% of program spendingPledge Campaign: The idea of the pledge is simple: make politicians put their no-new-taxes rhetoric in writing. The taxpayer protection pledge is offered to every candidate for office, state and federal, and all incumbents.
$539,085 spent$60 earned by the program14% of program spendingEvents
$260,183 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,798,073.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $23M to $35M (+54%).
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. 0 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Christopher Butler
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $791k → $550k.
From the IRS filings of Americans for Tax Reform’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
Americans for Tax Reform has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 Americans for Tax Reform.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 22% · 2019 14% · 2020 19% · 2021 18% · 2022 26% · 2023 14% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of Americans for Tax Reform's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
71% of Americans for Tax Reform'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.
Organizations like Americans for Tax Reform
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tholos Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Americans for Tax Reform: 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 Americans for Tax Reform?
- Americans for Tax Reform (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,724,517 to it, the largest being Motion Picture Association Inc ($525,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Americans for Tax Reform have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $4,724,517 in grants to Americans for Tax Reform, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Americans for Tax Reform?
- Motion Picture Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Americans for Tax Reform 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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