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Ainsworth 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $904k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAWFORD HERITAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| APSEED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION | $145,842 |
| AINSWORTH DONOR ADVISED FUND | $118,354 |
| PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP | $100,000 |
| COMMON ROOTS | $90,000 |
| MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $50,000 |
| LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $50,000 |
| THE ACTIVE AGING FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WINGS FLIGHT OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK INC | $50,000 |
| WOMEN'S SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAM | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $686k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +22% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $565k 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
- AAACTIVE AGING FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $275k · revenue +113%
- WSWOMEN'S SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +10%
WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MMMEADVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue -59% · 35% of their budget
- CHCALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $285k
- FCFRENCH CREEK VALLEY CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
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.
Primary health care services: delivery of health care to medically underserved community
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
To establish, implement and maintain a comprehensive plan and program for the delivery of primary health services to the medically indigent, medically needy and other persons in the city and county of erie.
Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.
To assist people in achieving self-sufficiency, independence, and healthy lifestyles to the maximum extent possible by providing integrated family-oriented services.
Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.
To improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
Improving lives through service and compassion.
Partnering for wellness: healthy mind, healthy body, healthy life.
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund and the most unlike its peers is Apseed Early Childhood Education 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 49 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 CRAWFORD HERITAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEADVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE AGING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CREEK VALLEY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEADVILLE AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds COMMON ROOTS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY DRUG & ALCOHOL EXECUTIVE COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CLUB OASIS INC ↗
- Who funds BAHAMAS YOUTH FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE VOICE ONE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds InterVol 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: Crawford Heritage Community Foundation · Rdl Family Foundation · Ljl Family Foundation · United Way of Western Crawford County · Harry Winslow Foundation · Erie Community Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Ainsworth 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.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% 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.
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