· Public charity
AARP
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization empowering people to choose how they live as they age.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 688 grants below total $35,827,451 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $39,872,182 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,044,731 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k137 grants · $982k
- $10k–50k451 grants · $8.0M
- $50k–250k82 grants · $6.8M
- $250k+18 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Older Adults Technology Services | $7,400,596 |
| Wish of a Lifetime | $3,362,720 |
| Legal Counsel for the Elderly | $2,978,685 |
| The Creative Coalition | $995,077 |
| United Way Worldwide | $819,000 |
| AARP Foundation | $514,383 |
| America'S Charities | $508,493 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $440,000 |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $424,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $360,000 |
| Aspen Institute | $325,000 |
| US Library of Congress | $320,000 |
| The Links Foundation Incorporated | $286,500 |
| National Coalition on Black Civic Participation | $275,000 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $257,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $15.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
647 repeat relationships — 328 still active in FY2024, 319 since wound down; 269 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.2M 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
- LCLEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY7× · 2018–2024 · $82M · revenue +58% · 95% of their budget
- OAOlder Adults Technology Services4× · 2021–2024 · $24M · revenue +51% · 49% of their budget
- WOWish of a Lifetime5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +93% · 85% of their budget
Funded once
LA COLABORATIVA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $170k · revenue +277%- CCCentral City Productions Incone grant, 2019 · $167k
- NVNEW VOICES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $165k · revenue -99%
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.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
To enable the access and choice of america's seniors in their housing and care by providing data, analytics and connections that bring together investors and providers in the sector.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Madison Art Gallery. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
1440 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1440 of the 2,000 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 AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds Older Adults Technology Services ↗
- Who funds Wish of a Lifetime ↗
- Who funds FitLot ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds MASSCHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CREATIVE COALITION ↗
- Who funds National Coalition on Black Civic Partic ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds America Walks Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds STORYCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE ↗
- Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The National Press Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CICLAVIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE LIVE 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: National League of Cities Institute Inc · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · AARP Foundation · FitLot · National Recreation and Park Association · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Peopleforbikes Foundation · American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Inc · Ctia - the Wireless Association · The Recycling Partnership Inc · Urban Sustainability Directors Network · National Council on Aging 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 AARP 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- National Black Justice Coalition Inc — 17% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Masschallenge Inc — 3% of income from government
- The New England Council 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.