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Air-Pruning Technologies

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.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.0MEducation$322kScience & Tech$81kYouth Development$50kHuman Services$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$20,000
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATIO$20,000
GLOBAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATION IN HE$20,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$20,000
ANN ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOS$10,000
NOLS$10,000
GEORGE WOSHINGTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARC$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTER FOR MEDICAL SIMULATION: $150k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $200k → 22%PANCREATIC CANCER EDUCATION: $20k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATION-BASED PEDIATRIC INNOVATION RESEARCH: $74k → 5%GLOBAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATION IN HE: $20k → 14%V FOUNDATION: $110k → 8%ANNE & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%NOLS: $10k → 17%GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL MARYLAND: $50k → 19%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100k → 22%PANCREATIC CANCER EDUCATION: $20k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATION-BASED PEDIATRIC INNOVATION RESEARCH: $58k → 5%GLOBAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATION IN HEALTHCARE: $10k → 14%THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARC: $15k → 8%ANNE & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%NOLS: $10k → 17%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $97k → 22%PANCREATIC CANCER EDUCATION: $16k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATIO: $41k → 5%V FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%PANCREATIC CANCER EDUCATION: $10k → 14%GEORGE WOSHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATIO: $20k → 5%V FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%ANN ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOS: $10k → 14%PANCREATIC CANCER EDUCATION: $10k → 14%GEORGE WOSHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARC: $10k → 8%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO - DBA LURIE CHILDRENS: $10k → 14%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $102k → 14%V FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%ANNE & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%V FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%ANN ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOS: $10k → 14%V FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
WY
PA
CA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 13 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$1.4M
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-20%

Still filing today

54%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $447k · revenue +180%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    4× · 2017–2022 · $227k · revenue +30%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $160k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR MEDICAL SIMULATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -28%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -20%
  • GN
    GLOBAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATION IN HEALTHCARE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
4
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
5
Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center

We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…

Health
6
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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7
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
8
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…

Health
11
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
12
Physicians Organization at Children's Hospital Inc

The Organization operates exclusively for the benefit of the charitable purposes of Boston Children's Hospital (the Hospital) and the affiliated Foundations. It works jointly with the Hospital and the Foundations in developing and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Network for Simulatio N-Based Pediatric Innovation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $447,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONTHE V FOUNDATION: $160,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR MEDICAL SIMULATION INC: $150,000 · HealthCENTER FOR MEDICAL SIMULATION INCINTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATIO N-BASED PEDIATRIC INNOVATION: $132,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATIO N-BASED PEDIATRIC INNOVATIONAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $90,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation+1 more: $20,000 · HealthThe George Washington University: $227,000 · EducationThe George Washingto…Vanderbilt University: $70,000 · EducationVanderbilt Universit…Individual grant recipient: $76,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATIO: $61,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL NETW…GEORGE WOSHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherGEORGE WOSHINGTON …THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARC: $25,000 · OtherTHE V FOUNDATION F…GLOBAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATION IN HE: $20,000 · OtherGLOBAL NETWORK FOR…ANN ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOS: $20,000 · OtherANN ROBERT H LURIE…NOLS: $20,000 · OtherNOLSGLOBAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATION IN HEALTHCARE INC: $10,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $50,000 · Youth Development
Health$999,000Education$297,000Other$257,000Youth Development$50,000

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 budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $447,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $227,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR MEDICAL SIMULATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATIO N-BASED PEDIATRIC INNOVATION: $132,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $20,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR MEDICAL SIMULATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SIMULATIO N-BASED PEDIATRIC INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Air-Pruning Technologies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Air-Pruning Technologies. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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