How much does Aphorism Foundation give?

Aphorism Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $43,449,493 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Aphorism Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (22%), Education (16%), Philanthropy (15%).

Who are Aphorism Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Probalistic Computing Foundation Inc ($25M), New America Foundation ($11M), The Earth Species Project ($10M).

Does Aphorism Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Aphorism Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Aphorism Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Impactassetsinc, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation.

Where is Aphorism Foundation based?

Aphorism Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Private foundation

Aphorism Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$43M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 27
Grants FY2024: 29
Organizations funded FY2023: 62%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $1,000,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $10,005,300
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 29; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 9
Total assets, FY2024: $1.1B
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 62% of the organizations Aphorism Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Science & TechEducationArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	25	$41M	36%
FY2023	29	$43M	62%
FY2022	16	$10M	69%
FY2021	4	$4.3M	25%
FY2020	7	$8.6M	29%
FY2019	10	$17M	60%
FY2017	26	$37M	n/a

97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$47MEducation$35MPhilanthropy$33MPublic Benefit$25MHealth$18MEnvironment$11MSocial Science$8.7MEmployment$8.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Probalistic Computing Foundation Inc	$24,500,000	2	99%
New America Foundation	$11,150,000	5	7%
The Earth Species Project	$10,005,300	1	48%
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Inc	$10,000,000	5	21%
Science for America Inc	$9,000,000	2	36%
The Barack Obama Foundation	$8,334,000	1	6%
Opportunitywork Inc	$7,500,000	2	56%
Mathesar Foundation Inc	$5,723,500	4	89%
OpenAI Foundation fka OpenAI Inc	$5,000,000	1	15%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$4,000,000	4	n/a

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All grantees of Aphorism Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Probalistic Computing Foundation Inc	$24,500,000	2	99%
New America Foundation	$11,150,000	5	7%
The Earth Species Project	$10,005,300	1	48%
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Inc	$10,000,000	5	21%
Science for America Inc	$9,000,000	2	36%
The Barack Obama Foundation	$8,334,000	1	6%
Opportunitywork Inc	$7,500,000	2	56%
Mathesar Foundation Inc	$5,723,500	4	89%
OpenAI Foundation fka OpenAI Inc	$5,000,000	1	15%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$4,000,000	4	n/a
Do Something Inc	$4,000,000	1	28%
Cortico Corporation	$3,000,000	3	76%
Connected Learning Alliance	$2,285,000	2	73%
Pahara Institute Inc	$2,250,000	3	21%
Center on Rural Innovation Inc	$2,030,000	3	29%
The Association of Marshall Scholars Inc	$2,000,001	2	42%
American Friends of Libi Inc	$2,000,000	2	22%
Pecan Street Inc	$2,000,000	1	39%
Dreamorg	$1,250,000	1	19%
Ffwd	$1,250,000	1	6%
Leaders in Tech Inc	$1,200,000	2	29%
Leadership Network	$1,200,000	1	n/a
Securebio Inc	$1,160,000	1	27%
B Lab Company	$1,000,000	1	3%
Knowledge Futures Inc	$1,000,000	1	14%
Us-Japan Research Institute Suite 801	$1,000,000	1	n/a
UBI Charitable Inc	$1,000,000	1	100%
Aurelia Institute Inc	$1,000,000	1	53%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc	$857,940	1	4%
University of Wisconsin Foundation	$750,000	3	0%
Him for Her Inc	$700,000	2	13%
Voteorg	$600,000	1	18%
Computer History Museum	$500,000	1	3%
Management Leadership for Tomorrow	$500,000	1	1%
Science and Technology Futures Inc	$500,000	1	7%
Mercatus Center Inc	$360,000	1	1%
The Changeorg Charitable Foundation Inc	$331,000	1	38%
From The Heart Productions	$300,000	1	5%
Choose Love Inc	$300,000	1	2%
Friends of the University of Sussex	$254,066	1	28%
Civic Nation	$250,000	1	3%
Democracy Works Inc	$250,000	1	6%
Equal Justice Initiative	$246,000	2	0%
Public Radio International Inc	$240,000	1	1%
Dollar For	$200,000	1	12%
The Nonzero Foundation Inc	$180,000	1	64%
Endeavor Global Inc (F/K/A the Endeavor Initiative Inc)	$150,000	3	0%
Food for Soul Inc	$140,000	1	17%
Locus Science Fiction Foundation Inc	$113,000	2	8%
Georgetown University	$110,000	1	0%
Berggruen Institute	$110,000	1	2%
The Mission Continues	$100,000	1	1%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc	$100,000	1	0%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	0%
American Academy of Arts & Sciences	$100,000	1	0%
Creative Visions Foundation	$100,000	1	9%
The Institute of Play	$80,000	1	n/a
Madison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	2%
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation	$69,006	2	0%
Safecast Global Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Putney School Inc	$30,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($27M), not named here.

Aphorism Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 18 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA30.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation · Gates Foundation · Tides Foundation · Skoll Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson 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.

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About Aphorism Foundation

How much does Aphorism Foundation give?: Aphorism Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $43,449,493 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Aphorism Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (22%), Education (16%), Philanthropy (15%).
Who are Aphorism Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Probalistic Computing Foundation Inc ($25M), New America Foundation ($11M), The Earth Species Project ($10M).
Does Aphorism Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Aphorism Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Aphorism Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Impactassetsinc, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation.
Where is Aphorism Foundation based?: Aphorism Foundation is based in CA.