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Asea Advancing Life 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $179k
- $250k+2 grants · $570k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Engage Now Africa | $292,259 |
| Choice Humanitarian | $278,008 |
| Mothers Without Borders | $129,069 |
| The Exodus Road | $50,000 |
| WHOlives Inc | $45,000 |
| Vision Cambodia | $40,750 |
| Speak Up for the Poor | $37,609 |
| KNOT Today | $33,500 |
| Feeding America | $30,000 |
| Village Book Builders | $15,000 |
| United Way of North Carolina | $15,000 |
| United Way of Florida | $15,000 |
| North America Ascent Service Project | $5,220 |
| The Salvation Army | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- ENENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $568k · revenue +92%
- MWMothers Without Borders3× · 2022–2024 · $527k · revenue +18%
- WIWHOLIVES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $266k · revenue +414%
Funded once
- DDDIG DEEPone grant, 2021 · $115k · revenue -54%
- SHSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +69%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +39%
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.
Provide aid to people in need worldwide
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
World without orphans (wwo) global's vision is that every child would grow up in a safe and loving family, know their heavenly father, and reach their god-given purpose. wwo global's mission is to call and equip national leaders to…
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Village Book Builders Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 41 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
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 CENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Mothers Without Borders ↗
- Who funds WHOLIVES INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds VISION CAMBODIA ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
- Who funds The Global FoodBanking Network ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SPEAK UP FOR THE POOR ↗
- Who funds KNOT TODAY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXODUS ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding Children Everywhere Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE BOOK BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Smart Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Action Services and Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TINY TIMS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · University Impact · Synchrony Foundation · The Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 Asea Advancing Life Foundation 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.
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 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.
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