Defense Against Thought Control Foundation Inc
EIN 81-4712449 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 160 grants · $2.3m
Who it funds most
18 of its 19 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Defense Against Thought Control Foundation Inc's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 19 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202523039349100637
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns7 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202642309349100329 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202523039349100637 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202412269349100501 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202323119349100647 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202242909349100044 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202113199349101636 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201913179349101786 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Defense Against Thought Control Foundation Inc made 257 grants across 2018–2025, totalling $5.4m as filed.
- Grants
- 257
- Total, as filed
- $5.4m
- Years
- 2018–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE | 2 | $1.5m |
| NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD | 6 | $500.0k |
| WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION | 6 | $450.0k |
| HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER | 6 | $300.0k |
| COUNTER PUNCH | 3 | $275.0k |
| THE INTERCEPT FIRST LOOK MEDIA WORKS | 6 | $202.0k |
| GREENPEACE | 6 | $130.0k |
| SURVIVORS INC | 3 | $125.0k |
| 350 ORG | 4 | $120.0k |
| FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING | 6 | $120.0k |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NAACP | 6 | $120.0k |
| THE POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN | 3 | $100.0k |
| NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND | 6 | $90.0k |
| CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS | 4 | $80.0k |
| RESIST | 4 | $80.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | $75.0k |
| 2020 | 43 | $569.0k |
| 2021 | 44 | $594.0k |
| 2022 | 43 | $568.0k |
| 2023 | 44 | $675.0k |
| 2024 | 41 | $2.2m |
| 2025 | 41 | $759.0k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-814712449. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified