Virginia · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC
CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $577,000 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($507,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Alexandria Economic Development Partnership Inclocal
- NetChoiceportfolio match
- The Roe Foundationportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
98% of CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $197k → $380k.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY 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
CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 77% · 2023 93% — 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
CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Alexandria Economic Development Partnership InclocalVA · funds 572 organizations near you
- NetChoiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americans for Tax Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlas Economic Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Policy Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OpenRoad Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chase Foundation of Virginiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Holman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Commonwealth Partners Chamber of Entrepreneurs Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Government Leadership Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The 85 Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC?
- CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $577,000 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($507,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $577,000 in grants to CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC?
- PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $507,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing