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Ajg Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.3M
Granted FY2020
29
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$6.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2020.

Philanthropy$6.6MInternational$213kEducation$130kHealth$70kCivil Rights$56kArts & Culture$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2020 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $7,126,995 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,278,545 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $151,550 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k12 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $254k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $6.6M
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fidelity Gift Fund- AJG Foundation$6,633,495
Brennan Center for Justice$50,000
Kakenya Center for Excellence$50,000
RefugePoint$50,000
Village Health Works$50,000
RefuShe$30,000
Carolina for Kibera- Univ of North Carolina$30,000
American Jewish World Service$30,000
ZanaAfrica Foundation$27,500
Center for Reproductive Rights$25,000
Human Rights Watch, Inc.$25,000
Planned Parenthood$18,000
HIAS$18,000
American Civil Liberties Union Inc.$15,000
Camfed$15,000
02Your 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
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
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
3
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
4
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
5
Equality Now Inc

To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.

International
6
Open Government Partnership Secretariat

To secure concrete commitments from governments to their citizenry to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption and harness new technologies to strengthen citizen centered governance.

International
7
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
8
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
11
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
12
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Committee to Protect Journalists Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 28 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Fidelity Gift Fund- AJG Foundation — $6,633,495 · OtherFidelity Gift Fund- AJG Foundation+12 more — $140,004 · OtherVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS — $50,500 · InternationalREFUGEPOINT INC — $50,000 · InternationalRefuSHE Inc — $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $30,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $25,000 · InternationalHIAS INC — $18,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · International+2 more — $7,500 · InternationalWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $50,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ZANAAFRICA CORP — $27,500 · Human ServicesACTBLUE CHARITIES INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$6,773,499International$226,000Education$50,000Civil Rights$35,000Human Services$27,500Philanthropy$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS — $50,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREFUGEPOINT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRefuSHE Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ZANAAFRICA CORP — $27,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD360 — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $1,000 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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 28 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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