· Private foundation
Ainslie Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $909k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+7 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $4,550,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $2,000,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MARTIN COUNTY INC | $2,000,000 |
| BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK | $1,667,000 |
| COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY | $1,100,000 |
| MAVERICK CAPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MARTIN COUNTY INC | $250,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH (GLEN COVE HOSPITAL) | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITE LAVAL | $104,000 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $100,000 |
| BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK | $100,000 |
| NPOWER | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $765k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
112 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $442k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $16M · revenue +19%
- MCMAVERICK CAPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +6% · 79% of their budget
- WCWildlife Conservation Society6× · 2019–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +52%
Funded once
- NYNew York City Partnership Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -54%
- AWAUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +40% · 29% of their budget
- UFUTAH FILM CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +54%
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.
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
146 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. 146 of the 181 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds United Recovery Fund ↗
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- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Robertson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Bahnik Foundation Inc · The Stebbins Fund Inc · The Moore Charitable Foundation Inc · Herbert L Smith III Family Fund · W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · The Pamela Howard Family Foundation Inc · The Barker Welfare Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ainslie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ainslie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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