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Amb Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $143,100 |
| 7000 LANGUAGES | $10,000 |
| HONDURAS GOOD WORKS | $10,000 |
| FUNDAMENTAL NEEDS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CASA COLIBRI | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIANA COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| AUSTIN SMILES | $10,000 |
| ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER | $10,000 |
| CREA | $9,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NANATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +6%
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +138%- SFSTRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT5× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $148k
- NANATIVE AMERICAN EMERGENCY RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $10k
- AANTINANCOone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
The organization is guided by the simple premise that groups of committed individuals can reach across national boundaries to make a dramatic difference in the lives of others. the power of this premise has been demonstrated by the extent…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
The mission of the Peoples Consultants is to provide material and intellectual support to communities organizations and individuals from developing countries to enable them to satisfy and protect their basic human rights such as good…
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.
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
To improve access, quality and relevance of education for youth in rural central america.
Pca seeks to improve economic conditions of the poor and vulnerable in el salvador, guatemala, and honduras ("region"). pca works to elevate the needs of the poor and disadvantaged in the region and generate the will and resources to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Aid and the most unlike its peers is Paza - Tree of Life 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 79 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds CASA COLIBRI ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds HONDURAS GOOD WORKS ↗
- Who funds Global Pediatric Alliance ↗
- Who funds SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AID ↗
- Who funds 7000 LANGUAGES INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Carmen Pampa Fund ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds RED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEACE CORPS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TERAVANA TRUST F/K/A WELLKIND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Catching the Dream ↗
- Who funds ETTA Projects ↗
- Who funds Physicians For Peace ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: John & Susan Dewan Foundation · Tides Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Amb 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.
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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