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Aloran 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.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$39k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Education$317kSocial Science$90kCivil Rights$72kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$5kCommunity Improvement$5kCrime & Legal$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE$39,000
ACE SCHOLARSHIPS$1,500
CU FOUNDATION LEEDS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$1,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,000
LEARNING ALLY INC$1,000
BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$1,000
ALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOL$1,000
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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1k → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1k → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1k → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1k → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $1k → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $500 → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $500 → 11%LEARNING ALLY INC: $500 → 11%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $250 → 12%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

WA
MI
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
NC
SC
TX
FL

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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$405k · 20 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

$405k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+75%

Still filing today

40%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • TA
    THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +213%
  • EI
    EdChoice Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +15%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +265%

Funded once

  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +58%
  • MI
    MONARCH INVESTMENT & MANAGEMENT GROUP
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TT
    TWO TOP ADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

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
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
4
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
5
International School of Arizona

Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…

Education
6
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
9
International School of Denver

Our inclusive, globally-minded community develops highly motivated and academically successful bilingual learners. isd students are inter-culturally adept and make positive contributions in a complex world.

Education
10
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
11
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
12
Colorado Academy

Creating curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is EdChoice Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Studio. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $109,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGECLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONEdChoice Inc — $33,000 · EducationEdChoice IncSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $22,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION+2 more — $4,300 · EducationIndividual grant recipient — $122,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION (YAF) — $42,000 · OtherYOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION (YAF)ANTHEM FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherANTHEM FOUNDATIONCOASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherCOASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY+13 more — $39,750 · Other+13 moreTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM — $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AYN RAND INS…+1 more — $250 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $10,000 · PhilanthropyLearning Ally Inc — $6,500 · Human ServicesINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $250 · Human ServicesPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $1,950 · Crime & LegalMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $250 · Health
Education$268,300Other$253,750Arts & Culture$90,250Philanthropy$10,000Human Services$6,750Crime & Legal$3,950Health$250

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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $109,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM — $90,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEdChoice Inc — $33,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc — $6,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN SHADOWS MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $2,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $1,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN STUDIO — $250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $250 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.

  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM
  • Who funds EdChoice Inc
  • Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY
  • Who funds Learning Ally Inc
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN SHADOWS MONTESSORI SCHOOL
  • Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
  • Who funds INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES
  • Who funds AMERICAN STUDIO
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Aloran 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Learning Ally Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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