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Aceso Foundation Inc

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.

$4.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$277k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$3.4MAnimals$1.6MEnvironment$854kYouth Development$460kPhilanthropy$400kHuman Services$310kArts & Culture$255kCommunity Improvement$210kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k38 grants · $3.9M
  • $250k+2 grants · $527k
$100,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE$277,000
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST$250,000
COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING USA$210,000
ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS$200,000
CITY BLOSSOMS$190,000
NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT$160,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE$130,000
VICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE$125,000
GREENER BY DEFAULT$110,000
REUNITY RESOURCES$109,450
PHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT$104,987
COMMON GOOD CITY FARM$101,300
LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER$100,000
GROWING TOGETHER$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING USA: $210k → 17%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING USA: $100k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
MD
DE
NM
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 19 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
13

Total granted

$4.0M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+26%

Still filing today

95%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Food & NutritionAnimalsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • NR
    New Roots Institute
    2× · 2023–2024 · $377k · revenue +110%
  • NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +2%
  • CI
    Compassion in World Farming Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $310k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HUMANE LEAGUE
    one grant, 2023 · $325k · revenue +20%
  • INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $155k · revenue -15%
  • AF
    ALL FARMERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $148k · revenue -38%
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
A Greener World

A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
2
A Just World

Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.

Animals
3
Organic Farmers Association

The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…

Food & Nutrition
4
The Food Project Association

FarmSTAND uses legal advocacy and public education to address the environmental, labor, and animal welfare impacts of industrial agriculture and to support the viability of small family farmers.

Crime & Legal
5
The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture
6
Animal Agriculture Alliance

The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…

Food & Nutrition
7
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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8
Zero Foodprint

Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…

Food & Nutrition
9
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
10
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
11
Sustainable Growers
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12
Global Food Partners Inc

Global food partners ("gfp") is an animal protection organization whose mission is to help food businesses meet their cage-free egg commitments and producers implement cage-free best practices.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Food Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Karuna Foundation. 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

55 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. 55 of the 62 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
30/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Roots Institute: $377,000 · Food & NutritionNew Roots InstitutePROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP: $180,000 · Food & NutritionPROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORPCommon Good City Farm: $177,300 · Food & NutritionCommon Good City FarmPLANT IT FORWARD: $175,000 · Food & NutritionPLANT IT FORWARDFOOD & WATER WATCH: $170,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD & WATER WATCHALL FARMERS INC: $148,000 · Food & NutritionALL FARMERS INCSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $126,012 · Food & NutritionSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTUR…GREENER BY DEFAULT: $110,000 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $103,300 · Food & NutritionLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER: $100,000 · Food & NutritionREDUCETARIAN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionA Well-Fed World: $100,000 · Food & NutritionBALANCED INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionBETTER FOOD FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Food & NutritionCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $78,700 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $165,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 moreTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $325,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE LEAGUEANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS: $300,000 · AnimalsANIMAL CHARITY EVAL…ANIMAL OUTLOOK INC: $125,000 · AnimalsANIMAL OUTLOOK INCSENTIENT MEDIA: $108,000 · AnimalsSENTIENT MEDIAANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $100,000 · AnimalsANIMAL DEFENSE PART…ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $100,000 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENS…Animal Equality: $92,000 · AnimalsAnimal EqualityLEGAL IMPACT FOR CHICKENS: $85,000 · AnimalsLEGAL IMPACT FOR CH…Advancing Law For Animals: $70,754 · AnimalsLEADERS FOR ETHICS ANIMALS & THE PLANET: $47,400 · Animals+2 more: $50,000 · AnimalsNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $350,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILDERNE…VICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC: $243,000 · EnvironmentVICTORY GARDEN INI…REUNITY RESOURCES: $209,450 · EnvironmentREUNITY RESOURCESPHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT INC: $104,987 · EnvironmentPHILADELPHIA ORCHA…SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN PLAINS LA…THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS LAN…Planting Justice: $100,000 · EnvironmentPlanting JusticeUrban Tilth: $75,000 · EnvironmentUrban TilthKENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentKENTUCKY NATURAL L…+1 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentIndividual grant recipient: $525,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGROWING TOGETHER: $100,000 · OtherANIMAL AND VEGAN ADVOCACY SUMMIT: $100,000 · OtherESPERANZA COMMUNITY FARM: $92,200 · OtherFARM FORWARD: $85,000 · OtherCompassion in World Farming Inc: $310,000 · OtherCompassion in World Farming…NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT: $290,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PRO…INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY F…THE WALLS PROJECT: $100,000 · OtherURBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: $85,600 · Other+4 more: $142,720 · Other+4 moreGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $400,000 · PhilanthropyKARUNA FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyCITY BLOSSOMS INC: $260,000 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMING OUT LOUD INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentSoul Food Project Inc: $75,548 · Youth DevelopmentSeedleaf Inc: $157,940 · Community ImprovementNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT: $100,000 · Community ImprovementKEEP GROWING DETROIT: $75,000 · Community Improvement
Food & Nutrition$2,290,312Animals$1,403,154Environment$1,377,437Other$1,986,020Philanthropy$460,000Youth Development$435,548Community Improvement$332,940

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 budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $400,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Roots Institute: $377,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $350,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $325,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCompassion in World Farming Inc: $310,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS: $300,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT: $290,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCITY BLOSSOMS INC: $260,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetVICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC: $243,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetREUNITY RESOURCES: $209,450 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetPROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP: $180,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetCommon Good City Farm: $177,300 over 2y, 10% of budgetPLANT IT FORWARD: $175,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $170,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSeedleaf Inc: $157,940 over 3y, 19% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALL FARMERS INC: $148,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $126,012 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetANIMAL OUTLOOK INC: $125,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetGREENER BY DEFAULT: $110,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSENTIENT MEDIA: $108,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT INC: $104,987 over 1y, 15% of budgetGLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC: $103,300 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetSOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREDUCETARIAN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPlanting Justice: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetA Well-Fed World: $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE WALLS PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetBALANCED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDREAMING OUT LOUD INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAnimal Equality: $92,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetURBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: $85,600 over 1y, 10% of budgetLEGAL IMPACT FOR CHICKENS: $85,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBETTER FOOD FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $78,700 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSoul Food Project Inc: $75,548 over 2y, 17% of budgetKEEP GROWING DETROIT: $75,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUrban Tilth: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAdvancing Law For Animals: $70,754 over 1y, 45% of budgetFARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetKARUNA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetRIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS: $55,000 over 2y, 26% 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.

The Quinn FoundationThe Greenbaum Foundat…PatagoniaorgClif Family FoundationAnimal Charity Evalua…Builders Vision Found…Rsf Social Finance IncImpactassetsincHumane America Animal…Tipping Point Private…Effective Ventures Fo…Vegfund Inc
The Quinn FoundationKS42.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Quinn Foundation · The Greenbaum Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Clif Family Foundation · Animal Charity Evaluators · Builders Vision Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · Humane America Animal Foundation · Tipping Point Private Foundation · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Vegfund Inc

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 Aceso Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aceso Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • All Farmers Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Aceso Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Aceso Foundation Inc 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 62 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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