· Public charity
Aid for Africa Inc
Provide assistance to sub-saharan africa.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $193,889 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $286,601 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $92,712 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC | $18,475 |
| CHARITY GLOBAL INC | $18,289 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $16,688 |
| WOMEN'S MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE | $14,535 |
| BOOKS FOR AFRICA INC | $14,323 |
| AFRICAN CHILDRENS HAVEN INC | $12,435 |
| MAASAI GIRLS EDUCATION FUND INC | $11,645 |
| ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,365 |
| AFRICA CLASSROOM CONNECTION | $10,287 |
| TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC | $10,255 |
| HELPING CHILDREN WORLDWIDE | $10,010 |
| EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN | $9,740 |
| MOUNTAIN GORILLA VETERINARY PROJECT | $9,669 |
| TANZANIA EDUCATION FUND INC | $9,463 |
| TOSTAN INC | $8,895 |
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 (FY19–21, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
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 FY2021, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC3× · 2019–2021 · $98k · revenue +253%
CHARITY GLOBAL INC3× · 2019–2021 · $86k · revenue +5%
The Fistula Foundation3× · 2019–2021 · $76k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- AAACTION AFRICA INCone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -69%
- WFWORLDWIDE FISTULA FUNDone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -16%
- ALAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INCone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +17%
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.
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Bringing ultrasound technology and training around the world
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Promote peace, democracy and economic prosperity in Africa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tostan Inc and the most unlike its peers is Panthera Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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.
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 WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMENS MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds African Childrens Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAASAI GIRLS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Helping Children Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICA CLASSROOM CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds TANZANIA EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AID AFRICA ↗
- Who funds ECOAGRICULTURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Medical Bridges Inc ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project ↗
- Who funds ACTION AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds TOSTAN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS 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: Give Back Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Aid for Africa 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.
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.