Texas · Nonprofit
CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC
CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC (Texas) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,963,360 to it, the largest being WAYNE DUDDLESTEN FOUNDATION ($610,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $428k
What Constituting America Inc does
Mission
Constituting america's mission is to educate students and adults about the constitution through the culture. Constituting america's mission is to utilize the culture: film, internet, tv and social media to reach, educate and inform america's adults and students about the importance of the u.s. Constitution and the foundation it sets forth regarding our freedoms and rights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
George washington speaking initiative for schools & civic organizations and constitutional chats podcast at no cost to the schools or civic groups, our constituting america speaking team, comprised of staff, board members, veterans and award winning teachers regularly speak at schools, teacher conferences, civic groups and senior centers, educating students and citizens in a non- partisan way about the relevancy of the united states constitution, how to apply it to their lives and country and "how to have a civil civic conversation" with each other and within their community. We also inform students about the opportunity to enter our "we the future" contest and win scholarship prizes, mentor trips and national exposure. In calendar year 2024, constituting america continued our unprecedented scale up of our school speaking program, culminating in a record-setting 550 speeches through 180 school visits in 14 states (az, co, de, fl, ga, id, il, oh, ok, pa, sc, tx, ut, va), engaging and informing more than 21,111 students. During the interactive talks utilizing the socratic method, constituting america representatives take students through an age-appropriate constitution quiz as a…
$507,475 spent43% of program spendingAdult academic forum - 90 day studies - history holds the key to the future to engage adults in a thoughtful and informative discussion on america's founding principles and to aid parents in teaching their children about the constitution, constituting america launched the "history holds the key to the future" initiative. This initiative is an online forum that challenges adults to join with others around the nation in reading and discussing founding documents. The program is augmented by a notable group of constitutional scholars from across the country who write daily essays on the day's assigned reading. In september 2024 we launched our study of de tocqueville's prescient book, "democracy in america." this study will be completed in 2025. The 103 essays comprising the study were authored by 80 different constitutional scholars, historians, and elected officials and the 35 essays published in 2024 were viewed 1.3 million times (to date in august 2025 this study has had over 2.9 million views) these essays join our 13 past 90-day studies for a total of 1,529 essays by 259 nationally known constitutional scholars, historians and elected officials. Our past 90-day studies include:…
$153,318 spent13% of program spendingWinners' scholarships and mentor experience/trips - to date, through the "we the future" contest and the turner maurice gauntt, jr. Exemplary citizen award, the 297 elementary, middle school, high school, college, and graduate school winners from 38 different states have received over 364,805 in scholarships and prize money. In 2024, constituting america awarded 33,140 in scholarship prizes to the 2023 high school, college, and teacher winners and the turner maurice gauntt, jr. Exemplary citizen award winner, alexa mcmillan. Through 2024, our 21 teacher winners have won a total of 17,750 for having the best lesson plan. Mentor trips - our "we the future" contest winners not only receive scholarship prizes - we mentor them in various ways, including taking them on a yearly mentor trip. In 2024, we took 23 winners from 11 states on a 2.5 day trip to washington d.c. Over the course of the trip, our group toured the u.s. Capitol, the victims of communism museum, the national archives, the supreme court and mount vernon. We had the great honor to perform a wreath-laying ceremony at george washington's tomb at mount vernon. A thomas jefferson reenactor visited with students about the…
$112,224 spent9% of program spendingWinner promotion - the work performed or created by our contest winners does not lie dormant. Constituting america is the only organization that utilizes the mediums of movies, music and television for the national distribution of the kids' own winning works to inspire americans of all ages to learn about the u.s. Constitution. We submit our contest winners' public service announcements (psas) to television and radio stations across the nation, and they are actually played on tv and radio. As of 2024, 275 television stations had played our winners' public service announcements and/or had them in rotation reaching over 138 million households. Our winners' radio psa's have been played on over 20 radio stations in major markets such as chicago, detroit, washington, dc, las vegas and honolulu garnering over 105 million nielsen-verified radio impressions. We submit our winners' films to film festivals across the nation. In 2024, our we the future contest winners' psa's, short films and music videos received 43 official selection honors- a prestigious designation by a film festival recognizing a film's artistic value-with 7 ultimately winning an award. To date, we the future contest…
$412,712 spentof which $33,140 as grants$236 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,185,729.
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 2023 to 2024, from $228k to $508k (+123%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $110k → $234k.
13 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
39% 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 CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 22% · 2019 34% · 2020 26% · 2021 42% · 2022 35% · 2023 43% — 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
52% of CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
69% of CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $770k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $300
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Constituting Culture Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSTITUTING AMERICA 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC?
- CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC (Texas) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,963,360 to it, the largest being WAYNE DUDDLESTEN FOUNDATION ($610,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,963,360 in grants to CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC?
- WAYNE DUDDLESTEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $610,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 38 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