· Private foundation
Aerojet Rocketdyne 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 $10k11 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $182k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION | $182,220 |
| THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | $29,668 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $1,000 |
| SAINT JOHN PAUL THE GREAT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC | $500 |
| BISHOP OCONNELL HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $500 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| ASSUMPTION ST BRIDGET SCHOOL PART OF CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE | $470 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $200 |
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, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
253 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 242 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470 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
- NMNational Merit Scholarship Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $487k · revenue +10%
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +21%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $72k · revenue +108%
Funded once
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +5%- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +14%
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPIone grant, 2020 · $25k · 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.
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.
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 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…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Square Root Academy. 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 51 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% 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.
297 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. 297 of the 829 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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West Valley Boys & Girls Club Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY TECH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville ↗
- Who funds INFINITY SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Region Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STEM COALITION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium 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 Northrop Grumman Foundation · Ernst & Young Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Western Asset Management Company Charitable 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 Aerojet Rocketdyne 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Housing Partnership Inc — 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.