· Private foundation
Ao North America Charitable Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $635k
- $50k–250k35 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $162,377 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $145,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $142,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $137,500 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $117,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $115,000 |
| RECTOR & BOARD OF VISITORSUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $115,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $100,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $97,350 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $92,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE | $90,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON | $82,460 |
| VANCOUVER ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA SOCIETY | $78,325 |
| SUNNYBROOK ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATES | $70,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER PROGRAM | $70,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 87% of grant dollars ($9.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($1.5M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 13% of all-years giving ($1.5M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +78% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2019, 14 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $367k · revenue +76%- TGTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $295k · revenue +651%
- UOUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $220k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2017 · $180k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2018 · $153k
- AGALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $143k
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.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 94 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ao North America Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ao North America Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ao North America Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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