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Aed Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ADVOKIDS | $10,000 |
| MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THACHER SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BACKYARD KIDS THEATER INC | $5,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC | $2,500 |
| MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP | $2,500 |
| HEAD-ROYCE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART - SAN FRANCISCO | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MGMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +128%
- MCMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $430k · revenue +26%
- TTThe Thacher School Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- OLOUR LADY OF THE SNOWS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $15k
- PPPixie Parents Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -73%
- CSCOMMON SENSE MEDIAone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +12%
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.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
Montessori de terra linda is a diverse community of teachers, parents and children working together for the education of the child, utilizing the methods of maria montessori. we serve children ages 2-12, providing a rich learning…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
Cypress school of san francisco is a play based full day program, serving children aged 2-5.9 years old. we are a parent participation school with a low teacher to child ratio and licensed master teachers on staff.
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
See schedule oto realize the transformative potential of middle school. millennium school believes in developing each student to their fullest potential, this involves providing both a rigorous academic program and a science-based…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Discovery Museum and the most unlike its peers is San Anselmo Montessori School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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
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 MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ADVOKIDS ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN ANSELMO MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Backyard Kids Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds Pixie Parents Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR WINDS ↗
- Who funds MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
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 San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Laural Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Etc Family Foundation · Mbd & Jfd Foundation · Am Dachs Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Aed 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.
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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