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Afef Inc

Grant making to qualified charitable organizations.

$4.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$198k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Environment$533kPhilanthropy$175kInternational$145kPublic Benefit$116kCommunity Improvement$50kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $665,312 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,063,291 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,397,979 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $635k
$120,199
Median grant
6
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWANITI INITATIVE$198,000
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC$160,000
PEOPLE'S COURAGE INTERNATIONAL INC$120,199
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$100,000
APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION RAINFOREST TRUST$57,113
THE GOONJ FOUNDATION$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INDIASPORA: $25k → 10%PEOPLE'S COURAGE INTERNATIONAL INC: $120k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $3.4M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South Asia$3.2M · 93% · 35 grants

Stated purpose: TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S PURPOSE

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$243k · 7% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S PURPOSE

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your field

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.

1
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
2
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
3
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
4
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
8
Climate Catalyst Inc

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

Environment
9
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
10
Sustainable World Inc

See schedule o part i for description of the organizations mission.

Environment
11
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
12
Natural Resource Governance Institute

Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People's Courage International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Swaniti Initiative. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
1/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $175,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVIS…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK …INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC — $240,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONO…SWANITI INITIATIVE — $198,000 · Public BenefitSWANITI INITIATIVEPEOPLE'S COURAGE INTERNATIONAL INC — $120,199 · Human ServicesPEOPLE'S COURAG…INDIASPORA — $25,000 · Human ServicesINDIASPORATHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementGOONJ FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Community ImprovementRAINFOREST TRUST — $57,113 · InternationalEquality Now Inc — $10,000 · InternationalQUESTIONPRO — $16,000 · OtherIHG MANAGMENT MARYLAND LLC — $7,437 · Other
Philanthropy$275,000Environment$240,000Public Benefit$198,000Human Services$145,199Community Improvement$80,000International$67,113Other$23,437

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC — $240,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSWANITI INITIATIVE — $198,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $57,113 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOONJ FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetINDIASPORA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEquality Now Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Afef Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Afef Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Afef 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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