· Public charity
Advisors Charitable Gift Fund
To promote charitable giving.
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 112 grants below total $2,648,105 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,315,049 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $666,944 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 $10k37 grants · $259k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $274k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc | $273,883 |
| ESC Of New England Inc | $187,398 |
| Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc | $171,101 |
| Scholarship America | $113,840 |
| EQUIP Leadership Inc | $105,000 |
| John Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc | $100,000 |
| Desert Cat Rescue | $80,000 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | $70,000 |
| Jeremiah Program | $60,000 |
| Doylestown Health Foundation | $55,000 |
| Central Fund of Israel | $50,000 |
| Colorado Animal Rescue Express (CARE) | $50,000 |
| Lake Forest Church | $40,000 |
| First Baptist Church of East Aurora | $36,500 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Elkhart County Inc | $35,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
289 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2024, 207 since wound down; 28 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $657k 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
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +39%- MTMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $715k · revenue +76%
Portland Youth Philharmonic Association5× · 2018–2022 · $392k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- FIFHF INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $307k · revenue +75% · 41% of their budget
- MHMONADNOCK HUMANE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $241k · revenue +52%
- NENEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $241k · revenue +32%
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 purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
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.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Bay Animal Services. 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 38 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
402 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. 402 of the 589 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
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- Who funds DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds Portland Youth Philharmonic Association ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FHF INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds MONADNOCK HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Maxwell Leadership Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ROGUE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Animal Rescue Express (CARE) ↗
- Who funds EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
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: Barnabas Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Frey Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation
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 Advisors Charitable Gift Fund 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.
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- New England Kurn Hattin Homes — 1% of income from government
- Portland Youth Philharmonic Association — 0% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Linn-Benton Community College Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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