· Private foundation
AEC Trust
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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k100 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k26 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $21M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION INC | $16,039,759 |
| WAGMORE FOUNDATION INC | $4,131,710 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC | $250,000 |
| DANCE ALIVE INC | $250,000 |
| MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $150,000 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| KESTREL LAND TRUST INC | $100,000 |
| AUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND | $100,000 |
| LINK COUNSELING CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| FERNBANK INC | $100,000 |
| SURVIVAL CENTERS INC | $75,000 |
| CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTL | $75,000 |
| CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT | $75,000 |
| RAISING EXPECTATIONS INC | $75,000 |
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, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +34% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
193 repeat relationships — 97 still active in FY2024, 96 since wound down; 39 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, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M 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
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $795k · revenue +91%
- ASAUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND7× · 2018–2024 · $590k · revenue +8%
- DADance Alive Inc4× · 2019–2024 · $515k · revenue +264%
Funded once
- FRFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -8%
- NFNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +51%
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +50%
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.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…
Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.
The mission of the Cobb Collaborative is to convene community stakeholders to facilitate the sharing of ideas, expertise and resources to meet needs and resolve issues in Cobb County. The vision is that all individuals, families, and…
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Beloved atlanta is an anti-sex trafficking organization lovingly equipping brave women on their path to freedom. we accomplish this through safe housing, mental health services, thrength based case management, and healthy community.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Louisville Preschool Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
351 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. 351 of the 381 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 THE HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds Dance Alive Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KESTREL LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds Matheson History Museum ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds The Link Counseling Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Feminist Womens Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WYLDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC ↗
- Who funds PUSHPUSH ARTS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds 247 GATEWAY LLC ↗
- Who funds SYNCHRONICITY PERFORMANCE GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE CHARIS CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERSONG INC ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GROWERS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds STATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MOVING ON INC WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER TO END DV ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA 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: The Imlay Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Homestead Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Boulder County · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009
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 AEC Trust 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.
- Friends of Children Inc — 54% of income from government
- Reader to Reader Inc — 30% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley — 30% of income from government
- Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Enchanted Circle Inc — 9% of income from government
- Alachua Conservation Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Matheson History Museum — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 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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