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A-Mark Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k66 grants · $239k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIX THE COURT | $31,500 |
| THE HOFFMAN INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CULVER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CONSERVING OUR HERITAGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE | $7,500 |
| XERCES SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| BLACK WOMEN BUILD - BALTIMORE | $7,500 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $5,459 |
| LOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB | $5,000 |
| CONSERVING OUR HERITAGE | $5,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF IDAHO | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +16%- ISIT S BIGGER THAN US2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue ×25 · 52% of their budget
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC4× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- VMVARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLICone grant, 2020 · $159k
- CGClaremont Graduate Universityone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -8%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2023 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Hathaway Ranch Museum Co Harvey & Parmelee Llp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
169 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 169 of the 258 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VALUES UNITED ↗
- Who funds VOTE-USA INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds IT S BIGGER THAN US ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CULVER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Monica Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIX THE COURT ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WEST ↗
- Who funds FAMILY DOG & PUPPY RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BRUCE LEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds NPR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEON ART ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds ILM Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE SUMMIT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Bews Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A-Mark Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc — 10% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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