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CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,158 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($234,758). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Donors Trust Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporatedshared funders
- Anspar Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $14k → $29k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Liberty Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED’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 THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 99% · 2019 75% · 2020 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
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, 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.
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. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Donors Trust Incshared fundersportfolio matchVA · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporatedshared fundersPA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Anspar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Policy Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rodney Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- JP Humphreys Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chase Foundation of Virginiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cb Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woodford Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chiavacci Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbee Family Foundationportfolio 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 THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
12%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED: 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 THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED?
- CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,158 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($234,758). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $318,158 in grants to CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED?
- JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $234,758 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY INC D/B/A CIVIL SQUARED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 5funders 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