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Aesara 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.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$45kInternational$39kCommunity Improvement$21kHousing & Shelter$16kFood & Nutrition$7kAnimals$7kEnvironment$500Health$150
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$16,280
Median grant
1
States reached
$285k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$16,280
PUBLIC SAFETY DOGS INC$6,784
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $500 → 17%FOODBANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $3k → 8%CAROLINA TIGER RESCUE: $500 → 9%PUBLIC SAFETY DOGS INC: $7k → 13%PROVENCE OF CARBORRO: $20k → 13%MEDSHARE: $24k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $150 → 14%NAACP ENTREPRENEUR PROGRAM: $1k → 19%FOODBANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $2k → 8%MEDSHARE: $10k → 14%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1k → 14%FOODBANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $1k → 8%MEDSHARE: $5k → 14%FOODBANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $100 → 8%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.
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 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
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank of the Albemarle

To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.

Food & Nutrition
5
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
6
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
9
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Cooperative Inc; the most unlike its peers is Public Safety Dogs Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $44,937 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $16,280 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more: $1,000 · OtherMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $39,416 · InternationalMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INCFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $5,885 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,000 · Food & NutritionPUBLIC SAFETY DOGS INC: $6,784 · Public Safety & DisasterCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC: $500 · Human ServicesNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $500 · EnvironmentCAROLINA TIGER RESCUE: $500 · AnimalsALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $150 · Health
Other$82,217International$39,416Food & Nutrition$6,885Public Safety & Disaster$6,784Human Services$500Environment$500Animals$500Health$150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $39,416 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY DOGS INC: $6,784 over 1y, 24% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $5,885 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA TIGER RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aesara Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aesara Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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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