Americans for Prosperity Foundation

Name

Americans for Prosperity Foundation

Legal name

Americans for Prosperity Foundation

Website

https://americansforprosperityfoundation.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civic Education and Policy Advocacy

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132), Educational Support Services (611710), Social Advocacy Organizations (81331)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Education Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Education Policy, Research & Advocacy Organizations (Nonprofit) (BPAGADAN), Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB)

Keywords

• Civic education programs
• Government transparency advocacy
• Administrative law policy
• FOIA investigations
• Nonprofit policy research

Headquarters

HQ city

Arlington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations and Contributions: As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, AFP Foundation generates revenue through donations from individuals and organizations who support its mission of educating Americans on free society principles and advocating for government transparency and limited government.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Americans for Prosperity Foundation educates and trains Americans to advocate for free and open society principles through a Courageous Advocates training program, legal policy advocacy including amicus briefs, government transparency investigations using FOIA and state open-records requests, and policy research publications. Its work spans administrative law reform, certificate-of-need healthcare analysis, and emergency powers oversight, delivered through the website, annual Sunshine Week Symposium, and coalition partnerships.

Product overview

Americans for Prosperity Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that does not offer commercial technology products. Its 'offerings' consist of educational training programs, legal policy resources, research publications, and advocacy initiatives. The main programs include: Courageous Advocates Training for Americans (training program), FOIA Advisor (educational forum), the Investigations Team (using open records requests), Sunshine Week Symposium (annual event), Permission to Care (healthcare CON analysis), the Emergency Powers Reform Project (policy initiative), and an Amicus Briefs Program. The organization produces investigative reports such as 'Gone in an Instant' on FOIA and instant messaging. These are policy/advocacy offerings, not commercial software products or platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Emergency Powers Reform Project: Initiative focused on reforming national emergency authorities and limiting executive branch power
• Permission to Care
• Right on Transparency

Products and services

• Courageous Advocates Training for Americans A training program offered by Americans for Prosperity Foundation that educates Americans to become advocates for the ideas, principles, and policies of a free and open society. Designed for individual citizens seeking civic education and advocacy skills.
• Investigations Team A standing AFPF team that uses state and federal open-records requests and other investigative techniques to promote government transparency, advance accountability, and educate the public on policy issues. The team supports journalists, policy advocates, and the general public with investigations across multiple states.
• Amicus Briefs Program A legal-policy program through which Americans for Prosperity Foundation writes amicus curiae briefs to support other litigants and present important issues to courts on matters of government transparency and constitutional law. Serves legal professionals, policymakers, and courts as the audience for the foundation's positions in significant cases.
• Legal Policy Resources Provides legal policy analysis, amicus briefs, and resources related to administrative law, constitutional issues, and regulatory reform, including the Loper Bright line of cases. Available to the public via the AFP Foundation website.
• FOIA Advisor A public forum and resource co-founded by AFPF staff that helps the public learn more about the federal Freedom of Information Act. Targeted at journalists, researchers, policy advocates, and citizens filing or considering FOIA requests.
• Sunshine Week Symposium An annual symposium bringing together transparency experts to discuss issues related to FOIA and state open-records laws, including topics on AI and FOIA. Open to legal scholars, government officials, journalists, and policy advocates.
• Permission to Care A research initiative analyzing certificate of need (CON) applications and their impact on healthcare access across multiple states including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The initiative has uncovered billions in denied healthcare investment through CON law analysis.
• Emergency Powers Reform Project A policy initiative focused on reforming the National Emergencies Act and limiting unchecked executive emergency powers, supported through the ARTICLE ONE Act and REPUBLIC Act coalition work.
• Gone in an Instant Report An investigative report co-authored with Cause of Action Institute analyzing how instant messaging threatens the Freedom of Information Act and federal records management compliance. Aimed at journalists, policy advocates, legal professionals, and government accountability stakeholders.

Quantifiable outcome

• Ryan Mulvey served as lead counsel in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the landmark Supreme Court case that overruled Chevron deference doctrine.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• People United for PrivacycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAFPF co-hosts events with People United for Privacy, including an event celebrating the five-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta. The partnership focuses on privacy rights and freedom of association issues.
• Cause of Action InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoA Institute and AFPF jointly investigated federal agencies' instant messaging records management policies. The organizations co-authored the 'Gone in an Instant' report on how instant messaging threatens FOIA compliance. James Valvo serves as Executive Director of Cause of Action Institute while also holding a leadership role at AFPF.
• Emergency Powers Reform CoalitionminorGTM or Marketing PartnerAFPF participates in a broad coalition including ACLU, Brennan Center, CREW, National Taxpayers Union, and R Street advocating for National Emergencies Act reform. The coalition supports the ARTICLE ONE Act and REPUBLIC Act to require congressional approval of emergency declarations.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Pacific Legal Foundation: Public-interest law firm litigating administrative-law and regulatory-reform cases. Directly comparable to AFPF in its use of amicus briefs and impact litigation to constrain agency overreach.
• Goldwater Institute: State-focused public-interest law and policy organization with significant overlap in constitutional, regulatory, and economic-freedom litigation — closely aligned with AFPF's legal-policy mission.
• Cause of Action Institute: Nonprofit government-oversight and FOIA advocacy organization that shares multiple senior staff with AFPF (Valvo, Schmidt, Mulvey, Kimbrell) and co-authored the 'Gone in an Instant' report. It is the closest direct peer in mission, methodology, and personnel.

Broad incumbents

• Cato Institute: Large libertarian think tank producing policy research and amicus briefs on administrative law, regulatory reform, and constitutional issues — overlapping substantially with AFPF's policy domain.
• Heritage Foundation: Large conservative policy organization that produces legal-policy research, amicus briefs, and government-oversight work with overlapping conservative-policy themes and a national donor network.
• Americans for Prosperity (501(c)(4)): The affiliated 501(c)(4) social-welfare arm of the AFP network. Operates in the same ideological and donor ecosystem but focuses on direct lobbying and political activity, where AFPF is restricted to educational and charitable activity.

Emerging players

• R Street Institute: Centrist-libertarian policy research organization co-partnering with AFPF in the Emergency Powers Reform Coalition, with adjacent focus on administrative and regulatory reform.
• Reason Foundation: Libertarian think tank publishing policy research on regulatory reform, free-market economics, and government transparency — overlapping with AFPF's free-society educational mission.
• National Taxpayers Union: Nonprofit taxpayer-advocacy organization and fellow Emergency Powers Reform Coalition member with shared interest in limiting executive and administrative overreach.
• Brennan Center for Justice: Nonpartisan law and policy institute at NYU that partners with AFPF in the Emergency Powers Reform Coalition — illustrating cross-ideological alignment on transparency and executive-power issues.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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