Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE
THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,620,700 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($435,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $263k
What The Taxpayers Protection Alliance does
Mission
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (tpa) is a non-profit non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research and analysis and dissemination of information on the government's effects on the economy. Tpa, through its network of taxpayers, will hold politicians accountable for the effects of their policies on the size, scope, efficiency and activity of government and offer real solutions to runaway deficits and debt. Through blogs, commentaries, and special spending alerts, tpa will publish timely exposs of government waste, fraud, and abuse.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Increase awareness of the public on government spending by performing original studies and reports on wasteful government programs, appropriations and regulations. Educate the public through campaigns such as issue advocacy advertising, opinion editorials, letters and speeches which strive to inform the public about the harm of excessive government spending and its impact on the deficit and debt.
$2,032,926 spentof which $15,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,032,926.
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 $1.1M to $272k (−75%).
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.
100% of THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Patrick Hedger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $150k → $185k.
From the IRS filings of THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE’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
THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
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 THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 57% · 2019 34% · 2020 42% · 2021 71% · 2022 40% · 2023 41% — 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
40% of THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
62% of THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE'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.
Against its field
THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE has grown faster than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: 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 THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE?
- THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,620,700 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($435,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,620,700 in grants to THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE?
- PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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