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Aberdeen Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$130kFood & Nutrition$37kHealth$24kHousing & Shelter$19kAnimals$13kHuman Services$12kCrime & Legal$7kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$986k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Glen Ellyn Historical Society$28,000
The San Diego Humane Society$6,500
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - SAN DIEGO$6,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FEED OUR RURAL KIDS INC$5,000
Vilas Food Pantry$2,000
Mattersville$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - SAN DIEGO: $12k → 11%FEED OUR RURAL KIDS INC: $6k → 10%HAVEN INC: $6k → 11%Mattersville: $1k → 3%VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $6k → 12%Glen Ellyn Historical Society: $28k → 7%THE SPCA OF ILLINOIS: $6k → 14%ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 15%SAGE ELDERCARE: $6k → 10%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - SAN DIEGO: $7k → 11%Warm the Children - ERRCF: $5k → 10%Glen Ellyn Historical Society: $25k → 7%ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 15%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - SAN DIEGO: $6k → 11%FEED OUR RURAL KIDS INC: $5k → 10%Glen Ellyn Historical Society: $20k → 7%Shelter Care Ministries: $5k → 15%CLIMATE ACTION CAMPAIGN: $5k → 11%FEED OUR RURAL KIDS INC: $5k → 10%Glen Ellyn Historical Society: $20k → 7%SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES: $4k → 15%The San Diego Humane Society: $7k → 11%Warm the Children - ERRCF: $5k → 10%Glen Ellyn Historical Society: $19k → 7%SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES: $3k → 15%SAN DIEGO MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 11%FEED OUR RURAL KIDS INC: $4k → 10%Glen Ellyn Historical Society: $18k → 7%ROCK HOUSE KIDS: $3k → 15%MAMA'S KITCHEN: $6k → 11%FEED OUR RURAL KIDS INC: $3k → 10%CHILDREN'S SAFE HARBOR: $2k → 15%Vilas Food Pantry: $2k → 10%Vilas Food Pantry: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$207k · 7 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$207k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FEED OUR RURAL KIDS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +136%
  • SC
    SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +80%
  • VF
    VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • SE
    SAGE ELDERCARE
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -1%
  • TS
    THE SPCA OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • MK
    MAMA'S KITCHEN
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +14%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Womens Aid in Crisis Inc

Domestic violence shelter provides 24 hour a day crisis intervention and advocacy along with emergency food, clothing, and shelter to those in situations related to domestic violence and sexual assault.

Human Services
2
Citrus County Abuse Shelter Associa

Rape crisis and abuse shelter

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3
Ravenswood Community Services Inc

Ravenswood community services ("rcs") operates a food pantry and community kitchen for those in need of emergency food on chicago's north side.

Human Services
4
Calvary Home for Children

The mission of calvary home for children is to provide help, hope, and home to abused and neglected children in upstate south carolina.

Human Services
5
Kid-Care Food Program

The mission of the organization is to feed inner city children in order to bring hope to families struggling to survive.

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6
Voices for Kids Casa Program of Southeast Virginia

To provide, promote and support quality volunteer advocacy for children, helping to endure a safe, permanent, and nurturing home for each child as quickly as possible.

Crime & Legal
7
Verde Valley Sanctuary

To provide emergency shelter and supportive services to victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Community Improvement
8
Second Chance Dv Sa Shelter

Second chance dv sa shelter assists individuals and families experiencing domestic abuse and sexual assault by providing crisis intervention and a full range of support services. second chance also works to empower the community to…

Arts & Culture
9
Crisis Intervention Shelter Service

Assistance to victims of violence.provide women & children salfe shelter, support groups, advocacy, referrals, financial assistance, hotline.

Human Services
10
Support in Abusive Family Emergencies Inc

Provision of temporary shelter for families in abusive situations, in addition to 24 hour crisis hotline, counseling, legal advocacy & information, emergency food, clothing, and medical assistance.

Human Services
11
Voices for Children

Voices for children transforms the lives of abused children by providing them with court appointed special advocates (casas).

Civil Rights
12
Shelter Care Resources

Shelter Care Resources provides basic necessities to low income, homeless and foster families. We operate a food pantry, a clothing and hygiene resource center, and help individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.Our mission…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mama's Kitchen; the most unlike its peers is Feed Our Rural Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Glen Ellyn Historical Society: $130,000 · OtherGlen Ellyn Historical SocietyIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SPCA OF ILLINOIS: $6,000 · Other+6 more: $20,500 · Other+6 moreFEED OUR RURAL KIDS INC: $22,000 · Food & NutritionFEED OUR RURA…MAMA'S KITCHEN: $6,000 · Food & NutritionMAMA'S KITCHE…VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,500 · Food & NutritionVILAS FOOD PA…RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO: $23,500 · HealthRADY CHILD…ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $6,500 · EducationSAGE ELDERCARE: $6,000 · EducationSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $6,500 · AnimalsVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,500 · Civil Rights
Other$166,500Food & Nutrition$31,500Health$23,500Education$12,500Housing & Shelter$11,000Animals$6,500Civil Rights$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGlen Ellyn Historical Society: $130,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO: $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEED OUR RURAL KIDS INC: $22,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAGE ELDERCARE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAMA'S KITCHEN: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCLIMATE ACTION CAMPAIGN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVILAS FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetROCK HOUSE KIDS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S SAFE HARBOR INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kristin L Anderson Ch…Tracy E Anderson Char…Community Foundation …Motorola Solutions Fo…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kristin L Anderson Charitable FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Motorola Solutions Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aberdeen Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aberdeen Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sage Eldercare: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Aberdeen Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Aberdeen Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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