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Your funders

147 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 Of these, 72 are locally focused, 70 have national reach, and 5 are no longer active.

• George Mason University Foundation Inc8 years$240,611,963
• John Templeton Foundation7 years$4,969,542
• Sarah Scaife Foundation Inc5 years$1,900,000
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc5 years$1,700,000
• John William Pope Foundation6 years$1,440,000

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19 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 14,595 funding connections →

12 Social Science funding peers share at least three of your funders.

• Atlas Economic Research FoundationVA13 shared funders
• American Institute for Economic Research IncMA11 shared funders
• Center for Independent Thought IncPA10 shared funders
• Becket FundDC7 shared funders
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies IncDC5 shared funders
• Ludwig Von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics IncAL5 shared funders
• The Policy Circle CoIL5 shared funders
• National Bureau of Economic Research IncMA4 shared funders

See all 12 Social Science 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.