Cato Institute

Your funders

493 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 276 are locally focused, 182 have national reach, and 35 are no longer active.

• Susquehanna Foundation4 years$15,000,000
• Galashiels Fund Ltd4 years$5,000,000
• E L Craig Foundation5 years$2,700,000
• Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation Inc5 years$2,599,946
• Searle Freedom Trust5 years$2,450,000

Showing 5 of 493. See all 548 funders

55 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.

Your funding peers

Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 21,529 funding connections →

35 Government and Public Administration funding peers share at least three of your funders.

• Heartland InstituteIL32 shared funders
• Libertas NetworkUT23 shared funders
• Citizens Against Government WasteDC22 shared funders
• Foundation for Government Accountability IncFL21 shared funders
• Young Americans for Liberty FoundationTX15 shared funders
• Institute for Free SpeechDC11 shared funders
• The Project on Government Oversight IncDC9 shared funders
• Committee for a Responsible Federal BudgetDC7 shared funders

See all 35 Government and Public Administration peers →

Potential new funders

Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.

In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.