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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.

$991k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$292k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$2.6MFood & Nutrition$276kArts & Culture$227kHuman Services$214kCrime & Legal$55kCommunity Improvement$50kPhilanthropy$35kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $179k
  • $250k+2 grants · $570k
$37,609
Median grant
8
States reached
$221k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
United Way of North Carolina$15,000
United Way of Florida$15,000
Village Book Builders$15,000
North America Ascent Service Project$5,220
The Salvation Army$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A Child's Hope Foundation: $1k → 8%Community Action Services and Food Bank: $5k → 8%Elizabeth Smart Foundation: $5k → 8%Utah Refugee Connection: $3k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
NC
HI
GA
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 14 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
21

Total granted

$3.1M
$297k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+32%

Still filing today

93%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • EN
    ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $568k · revenue +92%
  • MW
    Mothers Without Borders
    3× · 2022–2024 · $527k · revenue +18%
  • WI
    WHOLIVES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $266k · revenue +414%

Funded once

  • DD
    DIG DEEP
    one grant, 2021 · $115k · revenue -54%
  • SH
    SAFE HOUSE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +69%
  • AF
    American Friends of Uno Techo
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
International Crisis Aid Inc

Provide aid to people in need worldwide

Human Services
2
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
3
Zoe Empowers

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…

International
4
World Hope International Inc

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…

International
5
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
6
World Without Orphans Global

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…

International
7
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
8
World Renew

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…

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9
Food for the Hungry Inc

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…

International
10
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
11
World Vision Inc

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…

International
12
Aid for Starving Children

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.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE: $600,870 · InternationalCENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGEENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC: $568,116 · InternationalENGAGE NOW AFRICA INCWHOLIVES INC: $265,950 · InternationalWHOLIVES INCVISION CAMBODIA: $218,612 · InternationalVISION CAMBODIAThe Global FoodBanking Network: $105,000 · InternationalThe Global FoodBanking NetworkSPEAK UP FOR THE POOR: $65,234 · International+5 more: $111,000 · International+5 moreMothers Without Borders: $526,723 · HealthMothers Without B…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthDIG DEEP: $115,000 · OtherDIG DEEPTHE SALVATION ARMY: $91,598 · OtherTHE SALVATION…Feeding America: $30,000 · OtherFeeding Ameri…American Friends of Uno Techo: $25,000 · OtherAmerican Frie…UNITED WAY OF FLORIDA INC: $15,000 · OtherSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC: $50,000 · OtherSAFE HOUSE PR…UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $15,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 · Other+13 more: $49,290 · Other+13 moreOUR RESCUE: $227,000 · Arts & CultureCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $201,525 · EducationVILLAGE BOOK BUILDERS INC: $15,000 · EducationFeeding America: $105,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Children Everywhere Inc: $29,178 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,500 · Food & NutritionKNOT TODAY INC: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
International$1,934,782Health$536,723Other$405,888Arts & Culture$227,000Education$216,525Food & Nutrition$135,678Crime & Legal$50,000

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 budgetCENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE: $600,870 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC: $568,116 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetMothers Without Borders: $526,723 over 3y, 17% of budgetWHOLIVES INC: $265,950 over 4y, 12% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $227,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVISION CAMBODIA: $218,612 over 5y, 63% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $201,525 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFeeding America: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $105,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPEAK UP FOR THE POOR: $65,234 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetKNOT TODAY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE EXODUS ROAD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFeeding Children Everywhere Inc: $29,178 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FLORIDA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElizabeth Smart Foundation: $5,161 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Action Services and Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION: $2,741 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTINY TIMS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

doTERRA Healing Hands…Sorenson Legacy Found…University ImpactSynchrony FoundationThe Nu Skin Force for…American Express Foun…The Community Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Texas Instruments Fou…United Way WorldwideThe US Charitable Gif…Raymond James Charita…
doTERRA Healing Hands FoundationUT17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Asea Advancing Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asea Advancing Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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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How do I get to Asea Advancing Life Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Asea Advancing Life Foundation 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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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