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American Support Foundation Trust

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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$71kEducation$26kInternational$7kHealth$5kCivil Rights$5kPublic Benefit$4kArts & Culture$4kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$264k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PHOENIX$10,100
LIBERTARIAN POLICY FOUNDATION$4,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CHARITABLE$1,400
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CENTER OF FAMILY LOVE: $1k → 9%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 6 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$104k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+52%

Still filing today

33%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
EducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PHOENIX
    8× · 2017–2025 · $66k
  • RH
    ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +94%
  • LG
    LIFE GLOBAL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • ST
    ST TERESAS PARISH
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • OM
    OUTSIDER MEDIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +33%
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
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
2
United States Soccer Federation

To work in service to soccer and ignite a national passion for the game. work with members, partners, donors, and board to grow awareness and participation of the game, through soccer everywhere, soccer success, and soccer investment.

Recreation & Sports
3
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
4
Suffield Academy

Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…

Education
5
Fisk University

Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…

Education
6
Usc - United Soccer Clubs

The mission of the United Soccer Clubs (USC) is to provide an exceptional platform for youth soccer in South Texas. We aim to elevate the game of soccer by fostering player, coach, and referee development, promoting parent education,…

Recreation & Sports
7
Farmington Academy Inc

Our mission at The Farmington Valley Academy Montessori is to offer an excellent education characterized by intellectual rigor combined with personal warmth. Dr. Maria Montessori's principles and the insights and ideas of other gifted…

Education
8
The School for Global Thinkers

Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…

Education
9
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
10
New England Small College Athletic Conference

The primary mission of the conference is to organize, facilitate, support, and regulate intercollegiate athletic competition among member institutions in a manner consistent with our commitment to academic excellence and our core values.

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11
Arihanta Institute

Arihanta academys mission is to build a world-class online institution for deeper learning of the jain tradition, its principles, and how these principles apply to daily life for the benefit and well-being of individuals and society in…

Education
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Development Academy; the most unlike its peers is Federation of Jain Associations in North 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

8 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. 8 of the 21 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PHOENIX: $65,800 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PHOENIXST TERESAS PARISH: $5,000 · OtherUTAH HEALTH HUMAN RIGHTS: $4,500 · OtherLIBERTARIAN POLICY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherTULSA JAIN SANGH INC: $4,000 · OtherOUTSIDER MEDIA FOUNDATION: $3,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,500 · Other+6 more: $8,400 · Other+6 moreROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $19,500 · EducationROWLAND HALL-ST …THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $750 · EducationLIFE GLOBAL INC: $7,000 · InternationalAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,500 · HealthArsenal Alliance Soccer Club: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsUTAH DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentFederation of Jain Associations in North America: $1,000 · ReligionThe Center of Family Love: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$98,900Education$20,250International$7,000Health$3,500Recreation & Sports$2,000Youth Development$1,500Religion$1,000Human Services$1,000

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 budgetROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE GLOBAL INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArsenal Alliance Soccer Club: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFederation of Jain Associations in North America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center of Family Love: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $750 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.

  • Who funds ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LIFE GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Arsenal Alliance Soccer Club ↗
  • Who funds UTAH DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Federation of Jain Associations in North America ↗
  • Who funds The Center of Family Love ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗

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 Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 American Support Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Support Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
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Find your warmest path to American Support Foundation Trust 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 21 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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