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Amara Foundation at a glance

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Amara 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.

$354k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$107k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$228kHealth$150kYouth Development$70kInternational$70kEnvironment$60kArts & Culture$53kAnimals$50kPhilanthropy$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $107k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Long Now Foundation$107,000
Medical students for choice$20,000
Goodnation Foundation$20,000
Revive Restore$20,000
National women's health network$20,000
Turimiquire Foundation$20,000
Hartsbrook School$15,000
RFFNH$15,000
Seeds of Independence$10,000
Hello Future Inc$10,000
Acumen Fund Inc$10,000
Mount Grace Land Trust$10,000
Hatch Inc$10,000
Open Space Institute Land Trust$10,000
NH Democracy fund$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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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Internet Archive: $10k → 10%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

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CA
DE
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$604k · 14 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$604k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%
+18%

Still filing today

64%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • TL
    THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $167k · revenue -42%
  • R
    RFFNH
    2× · 2022–2024 · $115k
  • SO
    SEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue -39% · 83% of their budget

Funded once

  • AI
    App Inventor Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +18%
  • AE
    Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -28%
  • II
    IDEAS IN ACTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +57%
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
Ideoorg

We design products and services alongside organizations that are committed to creating a more just and inclusive world.

Community Improvement
2
OpenAI Foundation fka OpenAI Inc

OpenAIs mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Science & Tech
3
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc

See Schedule OThe mission of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. ("EFF") is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.

—
4
Brave New Software Project Inc

Brave New Software is dedicated to keeping the Internet open and decentralized. We build open source software tools that helps users access an uncensored internet, and create a more open and protected information infrastructure for us all.

Civil Rights
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
8
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
9
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
10
Orcid Inc

Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…

Education
11
Breakthrough Energy Foundation

Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.

Public Benefit
12
World Wide Web Consortium Inc

Making the web work for everyone. W3C brings together global stakeholders to develop open standards that enable a World Wide Web that connects and empowers humanity.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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

22 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. 22 of the 30 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
9/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RFFNH: $115,000 · OtherRFFNHMount Grace Land Trust: $50,000 · OtherMount Grace Land TrustRevive Restore: $40,000 · OtherRevive RestoreHartsbrook School: $22,750 · OtherHartsbrook School+13 more: $109,250 · Other+13 moreTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $167,000 · EducationTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATIONApp Inventor Foundation: $25,000 · EducationApp Inventor FoundationPIONEER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · InternationalTURIMIQUIR…ACUMEN FUND INC: $30,000 · InternationalACUMEN FUN…SEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentNational Women's Health Network: $20,000 · HealthMEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE: $20,000 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthGoodnation Foundation Inc: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HATCH INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$337,000Education$200,000International$70,000Youth Development$60,000Health$50,000Philanthropy$30,000Arts & Culture$28,000

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 LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $167,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE: $60,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetTURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetApp Inventor Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetTHE HATCH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELLO FUTURE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAncient Egypt Research Associates Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIDEAS IN ACTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIES UNITE 23 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetInternet Archive: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT JUSTICE: $4,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 30 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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By state
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