· Private foundation
Aspen Tr Iq Eq Trust Company US
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of Aspen Tr Iq Eq Trust Company US’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Aspen Tr Iq Eq Trust Company US named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k15 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $229k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTNOW INTERNATIONAL INC | $1,350,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMANT FUNDS INC | $171,110 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $57,500 |
| OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL | $35,000 |
| BIRCH PROJECT | $19,000 |
| ACTA NON VERBA FARM | $16,000 |
| 18 REASONS | $16,000 |
| HEPPA | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| CURYJ | $8,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY | $6,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL CASA ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| LAVENDAR YOUTH RECREATION & INFO CT | $4,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Aspen Tr Iq Eq Trust Company US’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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- 1R18 Reasons2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +56%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue +49%
Earth Island Institute Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- PAPARASITE ART SPACE LIMITEDone grant, 2021 · $95k
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCOgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $41k · revenue +33%
- SSSA SA ART ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
The international peace institute (ipi) bridges policy and real-world diplomacy, advising global leaders and shaping innovative policy solutions across the multilateral system, governments, and beyond through independent research and…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
Advance SF is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco through education, advocacy, and research. The…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Artnow International 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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 54 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 ARTNOW INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds 18 Reasons ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds Gilead House ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY FUND ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds La Casa de las Madres ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ ↗
- Who funds SynGAP Research Fund Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL SCOUTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGE TO REEFS INC ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Mendocino County ↗
- Who funds WE CARE SOLAR ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Aspen Tr Iq Eq Trust Company US 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.
- Ridge to Reefs Inc — 33% 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.