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Amelar Family Foundation at a glance

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Amelar Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$4k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$44kInternational$20kFood & Nutrition$16kPhilanthropy$11kEducation$10kHuman Services$4kReligion$3kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$287k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEA$4,000
LEMONTREE FOODS$2,000
FEEDING AMERICA$2,000
CITY HARVEST$2,000
HIAS$2,000
MAZON$2,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$2,000
AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE$2,000
CHARITY NAVIGATOR$500
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BABY'S SPACE: $2k → 11%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
IA
OH
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21k · 4 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

$21k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’24’25
InternationalFood & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HI
    HIAS INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +94%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    2× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +71%
  • MA
    MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AS
    AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANDROLOGYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +43%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +34%
  • UP
    Universal Promisegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +101%
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
3
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
4
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
7
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
8
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
9
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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11
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
12
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANDROLOGY: $40,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANDROLOGYMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $4,100 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to HungerFEEA: $4,000 · OtherFEEALEMONTREE FOODS INC: $2,000 · Other+6 more: $6,300 · Other+6 moreHIAS INC: $8,700 · InternationalHIAS INCGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION…Universal Promise: $2,500 · InternationalUniversal PromiseUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,100 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,050 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $1,050 · InternationalTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVEL…SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $4,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HAR…Feeding America: $3,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding Am…CITY HARVEST INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVE…UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD IN AMERICA INC: $2,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,100 · HealthAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $2,000 · Crime & LegalBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $1,500 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $500 · Human Services
Other$56,400International$23,400Philanthropy$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Education$5,000Health$2,100Crime & Legal$2,000Human Services$2,000

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 budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANDROLOGY: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $8,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversal Promise: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD IN AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $500 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Amelar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amelar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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