How much did AARP FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Civil Rights$29MHuman Services$18MEducation$15MPhilanthropy$9.4MHealth$6.1MFood & Nutrition$5.3MCommunity Improvement$5.0MCrime & Legal$4.5MEmployment$3.8MOther$34M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

foundation's digitaldigital skillsskills readyready workforcefoundation's snapsnap benefitsfoundation's benefits

2023

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2024

foundation's economiceconomic mobilityfoundation's financialfinancial wellbeingfoundation's advancingadvancing economicwhitman-walker

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $171k
$10k–50k30 grants · $793k
$50k–250k49 grants · $5.7M
$250k+10 grants · $4.4M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$728M

Total assets

Largest grants

OLDER ADULTS TECHNOLOGY SERVICES$788,322
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE LAW SAN FRANCISCO$677,147
CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC$531,542
NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC$450,000
INFO LINE OF SAN DIEGO$350,000
SBP$350,000
LITERATIONS$339,195
SC THRIVE$336,108
ASTER AGING INC$306,000
HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL$250,000
READ TO SUCCEED BUFFALO INC$245,796
AARP$209,413
CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES$200,000
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$200,000
FEEDING THE GULF COAST$200,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $17.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$92M · 168 repeat orgs$38M to everyone else

168 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 94 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

168

310

Total granted

$92M

$35M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+55%

Still filing today

79%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

A
AARP
8× · 2017–2024 · $29M · revenue +498%
OA
Older Adults Technology Services
3× · 2022–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +453%
L
Literations
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +32% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

TA
TX Association of Community Action Agency
one grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue -26%
RT
Rebuilding Together Houston
one grant, 2017 · $1.2M · revenue -67%
RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION DBA RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $750k · revenue +612% · 34% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

Create opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives and communities.

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One Community Health

To advance health and social justice for all members of our community.

—

Employment Connection

Assisting individuals with limited opportunities to self-sufficiency.

—

Washington Area Community Investment

To increase equity and economic opportunity by investing knowledge, social, and financial capital in low- and moderate-income washington area entrepreneurs.

—

Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education

Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks partners with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

Area Agency On Aging Region 9 Inc

The agency provides assistance to meet the needs of the aging and those concerned about them.

Human Services

Washington Voa Living Center

Low-income housing.

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National Low Income Housing Coalition

Achieve racially & socially equitable housing policies for the lowest-income people.

Housing & Shelter

Abilities Network Inc

To cultivate inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Community Action Assoc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%6/518

the rest of the field

11%

206,158/1,819,047

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.

05the grantee network

445 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

124

Early backer (in before they grew)

431/445

Grantees still filing

358/445

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Civil Rights$28,928,672Other$47,059,397Human Services$18,273,622Education$14,856,911Philanthropy$9,394,032Health$6,083,484Food & Nutrition$5,296,795

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.

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.

National Council on Aging IncVA53.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Council on Aging Inc · Older Adults Technology Services · AARP · Legal Services Corporation · Equal Justice Works · American College of Bankruptcy · Usaging · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · Truist Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · AT&T Foundation · National Association for Latino

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 organisation AARP 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: 3 Leaf Literacy Leadership and Learning Institute.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 8.2× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 522416615 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on 3 Leaf Literacy Leadership and Learning Institute, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to AARP Foundation?

Find your warmest path to AARP Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

AARP FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

445 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to AARP Foundation?

More from the funding graph

AARP FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

445 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to AARP Foundation?

More from the funding graph