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American Fundraising Foundation Inc

Each year, the american fundaising foundation (amfund) carefully chooses organizations to donate funds to in order to support the important mission of those organizations.leveraging more than two decades of fundraising experience, amfund also provides expert educational support and training on a wide variety of topics and offers subject…

$194k
Granted FY2020
12
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$24k
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, FY2018 to 2020.

Human Services$317kHealth$271kReligion$123kPhilanthropy$76kArts & Culture$71kEducation$64kYouth Development$59kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0
02FY2020 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $94,509, the rows itemized in this filing. The $193,951 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $99,442 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k10 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$5,825
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACK THE BIKE MAN$23,576
Individual grant recipient$10,000
EAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER$8,089
FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING$7,929
GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$7,532
CHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTER$5,825
HOLY NAME OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,781
NASHVILLE OPERA GUILD$5,455
CHILD ABUSE NETWORK$5,208
YORK COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION$5,114
MATTHEW'S HOPE MINISTRIES INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY18–19, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CORNERSTONE HOSPICE: $6k → 10%HOPE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $15k → 11%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 13%ROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%LOWER CAPE FEAR HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 12%WARRIORS FOR FREEDOM: $1k → 16%PIVOT: $11k → 16%FAMILIES FIRST OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $7k → 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

AK
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
NM
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TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 4 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
101

Total granted

$95k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+35%

Still filing today

75%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • JT
    Jack The Bike Man Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $47k · revenue +3%
  • EA
    EAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +13%
  • FF
    FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING
    2× · 2019–2020 · $16k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE
    one grant, 2019 · $69k · revenue -44%
  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $34k · revenue +101%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +19%
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
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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2
Good Samaritan Hospice Inc

It is the mission of good samaritan hospice to affirm life in the midst of illness and grief. we accomplish this objective by providing quality patient care, family support, community education and counseling services through an…

Health
3
Hebrew Health Care Inc

The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…

Health
4
Hospice of Southern Illinois Inc

Care to terminal patients/families

Human Services
5
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
6
Hospice of Holland Inc

The mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.

Human Services
7
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
8
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
9
Montgomery Hospice Inc

To gentle the journey through serious illness and loss with skill and compassion. to bring comfort by providing compassionate, professional care to community residents who are facing serious illness and loss. to provide dignity for the…

Human Services
10
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
11
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
12
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Therapeutic Horseback Riding Inc; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 114 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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
67/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $69,278 · OtherMUSEUM OF THE BIBLECHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $29,663 · OtherBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $34,384 · OtherBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation+56 more: $472,089 · Other+56 moreHEARTS & HORSES INC: $22,275 · HealthHEARTS & HORSES INCSAM SCHMIDT FOUNDATION: $18,774 · HealthSAM SCHMIDT FOUNDATIONTHE COURAGE CENTER: $14,694 · HealthTHE COURAGE CENTERPrancing Horse Inc: $13,421 · HealthPrancing Horse IncAmerican Diabetes Association: $12,070 · HealthCancer Family Care Inc: $12,054 · HealthCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester: $11,802 · HealthTURN IT GOLD: $10,819 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,743 · HealthTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $9,336 · HealthAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE MICROSURGERY INC: $9,216 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION OF MONONGALIA GENERAL HOSPITAL: $9,213 · HealthST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $9,019 · Health+12 more: $81,427 · Health+12 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $16,675 · PhilanthropyFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING: $15,858 · PhilanthropyBritish American Foundation of Texas: $15,440 · PhilanthropyTHE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC: $15,250 · PhilanthropyROTARY DEL SOL FOUNDATION INC: $9,706 · PhilanthropyWillie Stargell Foundation Inc: $6,417 · PhilanthropyOUT OF THE ASHES INC: $5,827 · PhilanthropyHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $5,647 · PhilanthropyHOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,009 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $12,617 · Human ServicesPIVOT INC: $10,834 · Human ServicesLower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Inc: $10,248 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST OF PALM BEACH COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $6,658 · Human ServicesROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $6,074 · Human ServicesCornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc: $5,752 · Human Services+2 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesSarasota Opera Association Inc: $13,731 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC: $12,722 · Arts & CultureGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11,551 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $10,989 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony Endowment: $6,293 · Arts & CultureThe Garden City Historical Society: $5,641 · Arts & CultureJack The Bike Man Inc: $47,152 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGES OF LIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $9,149 · EducationUnited States Space Foundation: $7,795 · EducationFOUNDATION OF OSTEOPATHIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE: $7,550 · EducationEMERALD SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE INC: $6,351 · EducationZionsville Education Foundation Inc: $5,460 · EducationKEYSTONE SCHOOL: $5,408 · Education
Other$605,414Health$244,863Philanthropy$90,820Human Services$70,192Arts & Culture$60,927Youth Development$47,152Education$41,713

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 budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $69,278 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJack The Bike Man Inc: $47,152 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $34,384 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $29,663 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHEARTS & HORSES INC: $22,275 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,028 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAM SCHMIDT FOUNDATION: $18,774 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN CITY RETIREMENT HOMES INC: $18,660 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $16,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC: $16,392 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING: $15,858 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAnimal Care Society Inc: $15,590 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBritish American Foundation of Texas: $15,440 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC: $15,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,009 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $14,712 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COURAGE CENTER: $14,694 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc: $13,731 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPrancing Horse Inc: $13,421 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetOklahoma Aids Care Fund Inc: $13,152 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC: $12,722 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $12,617 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION OF DOYLESTOWN: $12,445 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $12,197 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $12,070 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc: $12,054 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF VOLUSIA COUNTY INC: $11,831 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester: $11,802 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11,551 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWE CAN RIDE INC: $11,388 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFARM AID INC: $11,148 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $10,989 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIVOT INC: $10,834 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTURN IT GOLD: $10,819 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMIKIDS INC (GROUP): $10,779 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,743 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: $10,566 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Inc: $10,248 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBROOKE USA INC: $9,757 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSeabrook Island Green Space Conservancy: $9,576 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CARE CLINIC INC: $9,401 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $9,336 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE MICROSURGERY INC: $9,216 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF MONONGALIA GENERAL HOSPITAL: $9,213 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRIDGES OF LIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $9,149 over 1y, 12% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $9,019 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $8,993 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $7,851 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.

American Express Foun…Southwest Florida Com…Equitable Foundation …AbbVie FoundationMcKesson Foundation I…Johnson Charitable Gi…The Greater Cincinnat…Assurant FoundationThe Community Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationMutual of America Fou…
American Express FoundationNY13.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Assurant Foundation · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Mutual of America 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 American Fundraising Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Fundraising Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Farm Aid Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Families First of Palm Beach County Foundation Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Three Lower Counties Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Pivot Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jack the Bike Man Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 114 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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