California · Nonprofit
Defend American Ideals
Defend American Ideals (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being The Concord Fund ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Defend American Ideals runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,718 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,718 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
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.
- Restoration of Americashared fundersportfolio match
- American Economic Freedom Alliance Incshared fundersportfolio match
- American Action Network Incshared funders
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Defend American Ideals’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.
Where its funders are
Defend American Ideals draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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.
- Restoration of Americashared fundersportfolio matchFL · backs 5 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- American Economic Freedom Alliance Incshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- American Action Network Incshared fundersDC · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- Conservative Partnership Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ardleigh Impact Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building America's Futureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Future Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ending Spending Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- America First Works Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bavarian Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leon Rachel Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections 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 Defend American Ideals
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Defend American Ideals: 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 Defend American Ideals?
- Defend American Ideals (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being The Concord Fund ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Defend American Ideals have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to Defend American Ideals.
- Who is the largest funder of Defend American Ideals?
- The Concord Fund is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Defend American Ideals find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 1funders 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