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Ardian US Foundation Inc Fka Axa Private Equity US Foundation Inc

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.6MHuman Services$599kArts & Culture$436kCrime & Legal$325kPhilanthropy$118kHealth$103kInternational$75kEmployment$56kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$679k
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $241k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $947k
$30,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$41k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YEAR UP INC$125,000
DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL$110,000
ROBERT TOIGO FOUNDATION$100,000
ROOM TO GROW$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF NEW YORK$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$100,000
RIVERSIDE HAWKS HOPE HEALTH AND HOOPS CORPORATION$75,000
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION$75,000
COVENANT HOUSE$62,420
YORK STREET PROJECT$50,000
TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING$50,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$37,500
HEARTSHARE ST VINCENT'S SERVICES$30,000
STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERSHIP INC$25,000
THE HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $599k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ROOM TO GROW: $100k → 28%ST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC: $40k → 20%ROOM TO GROW: $75k → 28%HEARTSHARE ST VINCENT'S SERVICES: $30k → 20%ROOM TO GROW: $50k → 28%HEARTSHARE ST VINCENT'S SERVICES: $20k → 20%HEARTSHARE ST VINCENT'S SERVICES: $20k → 20%COVENANT HOUSE: $70k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $62k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $62k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $35k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $14k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $13k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 55% of Ardian US Foundation Inc Fka Axa Private Equity US Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 29% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ardian US Foundation Inc Fka Axa Private Equity US Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 22 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
8

Total granted

$3.5M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+36%

Still filing today

77%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEmploymentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • YEAR UP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $531k · revenue +1%
  • RA
    ROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $432k · revenue +29%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK
    4× · 2021–2024 · $325k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • N
    NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANQUEENSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $56k · revenue +36%
  • NC
    NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +11%
  • PROJECT SUNSHINE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +41%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
2
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
3
Futures Ignite Inc

We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.

Human Services
4
Reach Prep Inc

Provide transformative educational experiences that empower underserved students

Education
5
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

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6
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
7
New York Institute for Special Education

The mission of the new york institute for special education is to provide quality educational programs and support to students and families in a safe caring environment to awaken and inspire student curiosity, lifelong learning and…

Education
8
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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11
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
12
School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Access Books. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%39%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%55%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,727

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.

05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YEAR UP INC — $531,400 · EducationYEAR UP INCROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION — $431,500 · EducationROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATIONSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $188,300 · EducationSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INCCollege is Real Inc — $142,500 · EducationCollege is Real IncDREAM CHARTER SCHOOL — $110,000 · EducationDREAM CHARTER SCHOOLMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $100,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology+4 more — $137,000 · Education+4 moreRIVERSIDE HAWKS HOPE HEALTH AND HOOPS CORPORATION — $186,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE HAWKS HOPE HE…YORK STREET PROJECT — $175,000 · OtherYORK STREET PROJECTDREAM — $125,000 · OtherDREAMIndividual grant recipient — $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…SAINT VINCENT MARTYR CHURCH — $30,000 · OtherEPIC FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · OtherEPIC FOUNDATION INCTEAM WOOFGANG & CO INC — $32,500 · Other+9 more — $126,812 · Other+9 moreCOVENANT HOUSE — $256,470 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSEROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $225,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NAT…ST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT'S SER…+1 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $353,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE…ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $82,500 · Arts & CultureORPHEUS CHAM…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK — $325,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS O…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $72,500 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK CARES INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyNEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANQUEENS — $56,000 · HealthPROJECT SUNSHINE INC — $25,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · Health
Education$1,640,700Other$820,312Human Services$598,970Arts & Culture$436,000Crime & Legal$325,000Philanthropy$117,500Health$103,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYEAR UP INC — $531,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION — $431,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $353,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK — $325,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $256,470 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $225,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $188,300 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetYORK STREET PROJECT — $175,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCollege is Real Inc — $142,500 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetDREAM CHARTER SCHOOL — $110,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC — $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $82,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEPIC FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $72,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANQUEENS — $56,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetACCESS BOOKS — $47,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTEAM WOOFGANG & CO INC — $32,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOYEUX FOUNDATION US — $23,350 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFENCING IN THE PARK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCertain Place Ministries Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Marin Community Found…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Trustees of Colum…Morgan Stanley Global…Robin Hood FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…The Rockefeller Found…Td Charitable Foundat…The Ayco Charitable F…The Blackbaud Giving …
Jewish Communal FundNY16.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Marin Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Ardian US Foundation Inc Fka Axa Private Equity US Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • York Street Project — 32% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ardian US Foundation Inc Fka Axa Private Equity US Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ardian US Foundation Inc Fka Axa Private Equity US Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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