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AMD Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$428k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$278k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

65% of AMD Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Austin Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’20
0
’21
2
’22
1
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$278kEducation$243kInternational$91kYouth Development$26kArts & Culture$10kHealth$8kEnvironment$7k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $278k
$278,438
Median grant
2
States reached
$358k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$278,438
CODEORG$150,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Discovery Museum Inc: $10k → 8%Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass & Metrowest: $7k → 11%Columbia Neighborhood Center: $5k → 8%Give2Asia: $42k → 10%YourCause - 10000 Trees for the Rouge: $7k → 5%Girlstart: $19k → 10%Junior Achievement Rocky Mountain: $6k → 12%CODEORG: $150k → 9%Give2Asia - Concern India Foundation: $22k → 10%AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $278k → 10%Give2Asia: $16k → 10%Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering: $13k → 10%Give2Asia - Grant to Penang Hospice Foundation: $8k → 10%Breakthrough Central Texas: $25k → 10%Give2Asia: $5k → 10%Breakthrough Central Texas grant for Summer STEM Program: $25k → 10%Breakthrough Central Texas: $25k → 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.
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 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
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
2
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
3
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
4
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
5
Junior Achievement of South Texas Inc

Junior achievement of south texas's mission is to inspire and prepare young peopleto succeed in a global economy. the purpose is to educate and inspire young peopleto value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of…

International
6
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
7
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
8
Achieve Now

Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…

Education
9
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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10
Breakthrough Silicon Valley

Breakthrough silicon valley prepares highly-motivated students to become first-generation college graduates and inspires emerging leaders to be the next generation of educators and advocates for equity.

Education
11
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
12
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Codeorg; the most unlike its peers is Girlstart. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $278,438 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCCODEORG: $150,000 · EducationCODEORGBREAKTHROUGH: $50,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGHGIVE2ASIA: $63,388 · InternationalGIVE2ASIAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $5,800 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHI…Breakthrough Central Texas grant for Summer STEM Program: $25,000 · OtherBreakthroug…Give2Asia - Concern India Foundation: $21,714 · OtherGive2Asia -…Give2Asia - Grant to Penang Hospice Foundation: $7,500 · OtherGive2Asia -…YourCause - 10000 Trees for the Rouge: $6,750 · OtherYourCause -…Columbia Neighborhood Center: $5,300 · OtherColumbia Ne…GIRLSTART: $18,500 · Recreation & SportsTexas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc: $13,000 · Science & TechDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC: $7,250 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$278,438Education$200,000International$69,188Other$66,264Recreation & Sports$18,500Science & Tech$13,000Arts & Culture$10,000Youth Development$7,250

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 budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $278,438 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCODEORG: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $63,388 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLSTART: $18,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTexas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC: $7,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $5,800 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 AMD Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from AMD Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Discovery Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to AMD Foundation?

Find your warmest path to AMD 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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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