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Afi Foundation at a glance

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Afi Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$10kHealth$7kYouth Development$4kHuman Services$2kArts & Culture$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kCivil Rights$1kEmployment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$312k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$2,500
J WOOD PLATT SCHOLARSHIP TRUST$1,000
CURT'S CAFE$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DE$1,000
TE CARE$1,000
BERNIE'S BOOK BANK$1,000
HEALTH CARE ACCESS$1,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ALS ASSOCIATION$500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$500
RADNOR CONSERVANCY$500
RADNOR FILE COMPANY OF WAYNE$500
CARDINAL FOLEY SCHOOL$500
SUN EAST FOUNDATION$500
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 (FY24–25, $208) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDHELP: $108 → 11%CHILDHELP: $100 → 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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22k · 13 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$22k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-3%

Still filing today

54%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEmploymentEnvironmentOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +11%
  • AL
    AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
    3× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +72%
  • RF
    RADNOR FIRE COMPANY OF WAYNE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • R
    RWLL
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +16%
  • RF
    READ FOR THE HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $500
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center

Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…

Health
4
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
5
The Milton S Hershey Medical Center

Mshmc's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate, culturally responsive and equitable care, educate and trains healthcare…

Health
6
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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7
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
8
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
9
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
10
Philadelphia County Medical Society

The mission of the philadelphia county medical society (pcms) is to aggressively advance and support the interests of physicians and their patients. pcms is pennsylvania's premier county medical organization.

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11
Upmc

Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations (see schedule o)

Health
12
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

20 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. 20 of the 33 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5,500 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONJ WOOD PLATT SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $2,500 · OtherJ WOOD PLATT SCHOLARSHIP TRUSTBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DE: $2,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DETE CARE: $2,000 · OtherTE CARECARDINAL FOLEY SCHOOL: $1,400 · OtherCARDINAL FOLEY SCHOOLRADNOR FIRE COMPANY OF WAYNE INC: $1,250 · OtherRADNOR FIRE COMPANY OF WAYNE INCSUN EAST FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · OtherRWLL: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+12 more: $3,654 · Other+12 moreHEALTH CARE ACCESS: $2,000 · HealthHEALTH CARE ACCESSALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & REL…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $1,500 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLER…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL O…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Instit…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY I…+1 more: $200 · HealthBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCURT'S CAFE: $1,000 · EmploymentRADNOR CONSERVANCY: $500 · EnvironmentTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $450 · EducationWHYY INC: $450 · Arts & Culture
Other$21,804Health$7,200Youth Development$1,000Employment$1,000Environment$500Education$450Arts & Culture$450

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 budgetHEALTH CARE ACCESS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRADNOR FIRE COMPANY OF WAYNE INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUN EAST FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASTESHED: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION: $435 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $208 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200 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.

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 Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Afi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Afi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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