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Aetna Foundation Inc at a glance

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Aetna Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.2M
Granted FY2021
65
Grants FY2021
14
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Health$11MEducation$1.7MInternational$1.3MHuman Services$976kReligion$805kPhilanthropy$646kScience & Tech$527kYouth Development$482kOther$0
02FY2021 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k5 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $644k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+8 grants · $4.1M
$40,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC$1,000,000
PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC$500,000
UPSTREAM USA INC$500,000
PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC$500,000
HARTFORD BISHOPS FOUNDATION INC$500,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$499,838
UPSTREAM USA INC$400,000
NORTHERN SHENANDOAH SUBSTANCE ABUSE COALITION$250,000
AMERICARES INC$225,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL NURSES INC$213,750
NORTHERN SHENANDOAH SUBSTANCE ABUSE COALITION$150,000
HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC$136,195
CRISIS TEXT LINE INC$135,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER$126,560
NORTH CAROLINA HARM REDUCTION COALITION INC$125,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $842k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CARMEL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%VEGVOYAGES FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%REDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATION INC: $27k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $3k → 10%SEEING EYE INC: $4k → 4%EDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $7k → 7%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC: $2k → 11%OC UNITED TOGETHER: $2k → 10%REDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATION INC: $6k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 10%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DEN: $2k → 12%PARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN: $3k → 9%EDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $5k → 7%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $2k → 17%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $17k → 8%PLAINVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $2k → 11%CVS HEALTH EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND: $121k → 14%HOPE WOMENS CENTER INC: $2k → 11%THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3k → 14%JACK AND JILL CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $10k → 13%SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA CONNECTICUT CHAPTER INC: $2k → 12%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $6k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $2k → 11%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $90k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $57k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $57k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $55k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $55k → 11%CORTNEYS PLACE: $4k → 11%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $20k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $17k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $13k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $2k → 11%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $3k → 17%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDAT: $54k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $27k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDAT: $27k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDAT: $12k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDAT: $6k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 11%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $2k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $7k → 11%THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN INC: $2k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 29 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
1911

Total granted

$12M
$5.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+30%

Still filing today

93%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $940k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AP
    AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +54%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +28%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • PD
    PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $350k
  • II
    INTERCOMMUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +61%
  • JC
    JERSEY CARES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $148k · revenue +31%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
2
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health
3
United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
5
Animal Care Sanctuary

The humane compassionate treatment of all animals.

Animals
6
United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services
7
The Humane Society for Seattleking

Animal welfare organization

Animals
8
Marin Humane Society

Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.

Animals
9
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

Central maine healthcare corporation supports its affiliated healthcare institutions in order for these entities to provide exceptional healthcare services.

Health
10
The Wildcat Sanctuary

Provide sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.

Animals
11
Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education
12
Child Health and Development Institute

To ensure healthy outcomes for all children in connecticut by advancing effective policies, stronger systems, and innovative practices.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kingdom Rock. 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

1536 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. 1536 of the 2,000 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
319
Early backer (in before they grew)
1485/1536
Grantees still filing
1195/1536
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Upstream USA Inc: $2,000,000 · HealthUpstream USA IncAMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $1,370,390 · HealthAMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATIONMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,000,327 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDAmerican Heart Association Inc: $841,408 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncNORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY SUBSTANCE USE COALITION: $700,000 · HealthNORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY SUBSTANCE USE COALITIONAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $412,500 · HealthCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $300,400 · Health+32 more: $2,021,119 · Health+32 moreHARTFORD BISHOPS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · OtherHARTFORD BISHOPS FOUNDATIO…PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH: $350,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF…FLORIDA ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE ASSOC: $347,226 · OtherFLORIDA ALCOHOL & DRUG ABU…UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER: $265,147 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT …UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $202,500 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $175,160 · OtherJERSEY CARES INC: $148,499 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $155,000 · OtherHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $209,163 · OtherHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $192,500 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $135,500 · Other+69 more: $1,126,027 · Other+69 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,057,628 · International+6 more: $51,624 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $262,185 · EducationAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $137,682 · EducationCOPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC: $71,500 · EducationThe George Washington University: $50,066 · EducationACHIEVE HARTFORD INC: $50,000 · EducationCATCH Global Foundation: $41,239 · Education+18 more: $213,478 · EducationCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $255,479 · Human ServicesFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $129,746 · Human ServicesCVS HEALTH EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND: $120,830 · Human ServicesOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $110,166 · Human ServicesREDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATION INC: $33,000 · Human Services+8 more: $89,661 · Human ServicesSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $329,410 · Arts & CultureWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $49,330 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $85,281 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT: $141,770 · PhilanthropyLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $35,954 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $22,213 · PhilanthropyHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $16,770 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $15,182 · Philanthropy+19 more: $149,727 · Philanthropy
Health$8,646,144Other$3,806,722International$1,109,252Education$1,026,150Human Services$738,882Arts & Culture$464,021Philanthropy$436,616

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUpstream USA Inc: $2,000,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $1,370,390 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,057,628 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,000,327 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $841,408 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY SUBSTANCE USE COALITION: $700,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $412,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE ASSOC: $347,226 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $329,410 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $300,400 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $262,185 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $260,175 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $255,479 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL NURSES: $236,250 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $220,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNational Medical Association: $220,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $209,163 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $200,071 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCOMMUNITY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $192,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $175,160 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $155,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HARM REDUCTION COALITION: $149,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetJERSEY CARES INC: $148,499 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetUNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT: $141,770 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $137,682 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $135,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $129,746 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCVS HEALTH EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND: $120,830 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $110,166 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $72,336 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOPPER BEECH INSTITUTE INC: $71,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $70,704 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Health Center Assoc of Connecticut Inc: $68,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA INC: $55,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetWalnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation: $55,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $50,488 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC: $50,442 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetThe George Washington University: $50,066 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL QUALITY FORUM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVE HARTFORD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGo AustinVamos Austin: $50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSmart Cities - Techstreet Houston Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $49,330 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $48,032 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATCH Global Foundation: $41,239 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William and Alice…Farmington Bank Commu…J Walton Bissell Foun…United Way Inc United…Sbm Charitable Founda…American Savings Foun…The Maximilian E and …The Fund for Greater …The Ahearn Family Fou…Sandra & Arnold Chase…The Robert & Margaret…Rockville Bank Commun…
The William and Alice Mortensen FoundationCT65.2× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc · The Ahearn Family Foundation · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Community Health Center Assoc of Connecticut Inc: 85% of income from government
  • Blue Hills Civic Association: 72% of income from government
  • Operation Fuel Incorporated: 51% of income from government
  • Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc: 51% of income from government
  • The Village for Families and Children: 50% of income from government
  • Institute for Community Research Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford: 39% of income from government
  • Intercommunity Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Our Piece of the Pie Inc: 21% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford: 20% of income from government
  • Hands On Hartford Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Children America Inc: 19% of income from government
  • National Association of School Nurses: 15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Community Health Center Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Ywca Hartford Region Inc: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Hill-Stead Museum: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Jersey Cares Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Theaterworks Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Riverfront Recapture Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • Mcphs University: 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History: 1% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
31get no government money at all
46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Aetna Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Aetna Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 2000 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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