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Aja Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$224k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

International$2.2MEducation$1.8MHealth$701kEnvironment$382kPhilanthropy$222kArts & Culture$193kPublic Benefit$120kYouth Development$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENGERA$224,000
MAKOLEKOLE$192,500
Individual grant recipient$125,000
STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
HOPKINS GRAMMAR SCHOOL PATHFINDER PROGRAM$100,000
FULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS$100,000
ASEEL FOUNDATION$75,000
MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION$60,000
THREE ANGELS CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC$54,000
BRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA$53,000
INTERNATIONAL ESPERANZA PROJECT$52,100
MAYA HEALTH ALLIANCE$50,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE$50,000
THE SPARKLE FOUNDATION USA INC$30,000
ELM CITY INTERNATIONALS EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS THROUGH SOCCER INC$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%SHARE YOUR MANA: $5k → 9%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 17%MAYA HEALTH ALLIANCE: $50k → 9%ENGERA: $224k → 13%ENGERA: $181k → 13%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $75k → 17%ENGERA INC: $105k → 13%THREE ANGELS CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC: $71k → 14%THREE ANGELS CHILDREN'S RELIEF: $64k → 14%ENGERA INC: $105k → 13%THREE ANGELS CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC: $54k → 14%THREE ANGEL'S CHILDREN'S RELIEF: $52k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND LA: $75k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND LA: $110k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $100k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND LA: $40k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
NV
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
AZ
HI
AL
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 20% of Aja Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 15% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Aja Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 16% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 24 repeat orgs$902k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
28

Total granted

$4.9M
$552k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-6%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    2× · 2021–2022 · $638k · revenue +64%
  • EI
    ENGERA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $615k · revenue +125% · 100% of their budget
  • FF
    FULFILLMENT FUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $325k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF DEAN'S FUTURE SCHOLARS
    one grant, 2021 · $80k
  • AC
    A CHANCE IN LIFEINC
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -8%
  • UO
    University of Nevada Reno Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
2
The Malala Fund

We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…

Education
3
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
4
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
Impact Water Foundation

To make safe drinking water available to as many students as possible through scalable and lasting solutions, ensuring every student can learn and thrive with safe water. see schedule o.

Human Services
7
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
8
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
9
The Virtue Foundation

Virtue foundation's mission is to increase awareness, inspire action, and render assistance through initiatives on healthcare, education, and women and justice programs, as well as innovative work in research and analytics.

Public Benefit
10
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
11
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
12
She-Can Global Inc

The world is grappling with complex problems, including climate change, war, poverty, and ongoing human rights violations. These issues disproportionately impact women, particularly in developing countries. In nations recovering from…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Chance in Lifeinc and the most unlike its peers is Mana Mentor 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%11%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%20%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,505

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.

05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
29/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENGERA INC — $615,000 · Human ServicesENGERA INCFULFILLMENT FUND — $325,000 · Human ServicesFULFILLMENT FUNDTHREE ANGELS CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC — $241,000 · Human ServicesTHREE ANGELS CHILDREN'S R…A CHANCE IN LIFEINC — $75,000 · Human ServicesA CHANCE IN LIFEINCWuqu Kawoq SA — $50,000 · Human Services+3 more — $40,000 · Human ServicesMAKOLEKOLE — $366,500 · OtherMAKOLEKOLEIndividual grant recipient — $275,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOPKINS GRAMMAR SCHOOL PATHFINDER PROGRAM — $200,000 · OtherHOPKINS GRAMMAR SCHOOL PATHF…INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC — $120,000 · OtherINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA …UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF DEAN'S FUTURE SCHOLARS — $80,000 · OtherAseel Foundation — $75,000 · Other+27 more — $390,000 · Other+27 morePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $600,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FO…PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $142,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENT…PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE — $135,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP FOR TH…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $51,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $40,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $39,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $637,521 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND…MAKOLEKOLE USA INC — $221,500 · InternationalMAKOLEKOLE USA INCInternational Esperanza Project — $52,100 · InternationalMercy Ships International — $50,000 · International+2 more — $40,000 · InternationalHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $350,000 · EducationHOPKINS SCHOOL INC…STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 · EducationSTEPPINGSTONE FOUN…FULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS — $180,000 · EducationFULFILLMENT FUND L…THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION — $120,000 · EducationTHE MR HOLLAND'S O…University of Nevada Reno Foundation — $75,000 · EducationUniversity of Neva…+4 more — $65,000 · Education+4 moreBRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA — $103,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS — $37,500 · HealthTHE POLG FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE SOFT POWER HEALTH TRUST — $10,000 · HealthIMUA FAMILY SERVICES — $5,500 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · Health
Human Services$1,346,000Other$1,506,500Philanthropy$1,007,000International$1,001,121Education$985,000Public Safety & Disaster$103,000Health$75,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $637,521 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENGERA INC — $615,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $350,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND — $325,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTHREE ANGELS CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC — $241,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMAKOLEKOLE USA INC — $221,500 over 2y, 78% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS — $180,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $142,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE — $135,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC — $120,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA — $103,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetA CHANCE IN LIFEINC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAseel Foundation — $75,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetInternational Esperanza Project — $52,100 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $51,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWuqu Kawoq SA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS — $37,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRIDENT SWIM FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLEADERS IN TRAINING — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCode to Inspire Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetREUT USA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPLASH INTERNATIONAL — $16,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POLG FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RIVIERA TENNIS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE SOFT POWER HEALTH TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN DIEGO — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE YOUR MANA — $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANA MENTOR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHALEAKALA WALDORF SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Bendon Family Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…Globalgiving Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…The Chicago Community…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
Bendon Family FoundationHI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bendon Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Aja 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Aja Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Aja Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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