· Public charity
American Gift Fund
To inspire generosity across america and provide meaningful charitable services for donors to give efficiently, purposefully and with impact, while supporting our communities in prosperity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1,827 grants below total $98,222,470 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $107,490,094 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,267,624 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k399 grants · $2.8M
- $10k–50k1059 grants · $20M
- $50k–250k294 grants · $28M
- $250k+75 grants · $48M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| JAZZ AT ASPEN SNOWMASS | $3,616,100 |
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $1,913,318 |
| SOCIAL JUSTICE LEGAL FOUNDATION | $1,538,828 |
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $1,531,200 |
| RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND | $1,494,823 |
| HEALING LIFE GUIDANCE CENTER | $1,413,000 |
| LEAGUE OF VAISHNAVA ENTREPRENEURS INC | $1,200,000 |
| MORGAN STANLEY GIFT | $1,104,872 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,500 |
| GREEN OUR PLANET | $1,000,000 |
| RAPID CITY CLUB FOR BOYS FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| NEW BRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH | $973,000 |
| ST LEO THE GREAT CATHOLIC CHURCH | $953,525 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $946,854 |
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 (FY20–24, $7.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
1339 repeat relationships — 993 still active in FY2024, 346 since wound down; 226 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30M 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
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $11M · revenue +3%- TBTHE BARSTOW SCHOOL2× · 2021–2023 · $8.8M · revenue +16% · 36% of their budget
- TGThe George Washington University5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +22%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF THE GOLDEN SAVIOR INCone grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue -99% · 68% of their budget
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $679k · revenue +70%
- CCConcordia Christian Academyone grant, 2021 · $511k · revenue +9%
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 advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.
Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.
Advancing integrated health care through innovative education, research and clinical services
Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Hills Area Community and the most unlike its peers is Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
1565 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1565 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARSTOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds League of Vaishna Entrepreneurs LOVE ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA DELTA DELTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATTER ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Trial Impact Project ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING LIFE GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Wyman Youth Trust · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Bame Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Bentson Foundation · Gwendolyn L Stearns Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Marion I & Henry J Knott 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 American Gift Fund 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.
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to American Gift Fund?
Find your warmest path to American Gift Fund 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.