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Ai Infinity 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
84% of Ai Infinity Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Ai Infinity Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $25k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k8 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| VASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS | $5,000 |
| FOOD ON FOOT INC | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES Living Proof C | $2,650 |
| DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT | $1,500 |
| STARLIGHT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ABUNDANT HOUSING LA EDUCATION FUND | $999 |
| HOPI RELIEF | $500 |
| LA COMPOST | $500 |
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 (FY18–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DCDINNER CLUB FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $16k
- TETHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE3× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue -32%
- VIVASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS3× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue -57%
Funded once
- FAFULCRUM ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +34%
- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -30%
- CVCHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +119%
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.
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.
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…
Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…
For over 40 years food share has been feeding the hungry in ventura county. it all began when eight friends banded together to provide food to those in need under a bridge in ventura, ca. the early philanthropic movement started in a…
Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
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…
Food access la's mission is to build sustainable food systems and fresh food access, promote social and cultural activities that benefit low-to-moderate income residents of los angeles county, and support california small and mid-size…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Refed Inc and the most unlike its peers is 13 Hands Equine Rescue Inc. 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 26 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 33 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
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds VASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds FULCRUM ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds 13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Abundant Housing LA Education Fund ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds Jenesse Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds EXHALE TO INHALE INC ↗
- Who funds McKinley Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFED INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LA COMPOST ↗
- Who funds CORNUCOPIA COMMUNITY ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds Hopi Relief ↗
- Who funds AVENUE 50 STUDIO 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: California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Ai Infinity 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.
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% 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.