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Aspiration Aspirationtechorg

To train charitable nonprofits in how to select and use technology in sustainable ways that increase impact; to design and run highly collaborative nonprofit technology events, focused on knowledge sharing and development of peer support networks; and to provide advice, strategy support, tools, and resources to charitable projects and…

$1.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$595,890
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$9.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Aspiration Aspirationtechorg funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$1.3M92%
FY20242$28k100%
FY20231$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Youth Development$596kCivil Rights$303kScience & Tech$102kCommunity Improvement$95kEducation$75kEnvironment$68kRecreation & Sports$50kHuman Services$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
CT
CA
DE
AZ
KS

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Open Environmental Data Inc$67,50827%
Exchange Point Institute$50,0001n/a
Connect Humanity$50,00011%
Code for Science & Society Inc$50,00010%
Northwestern University$50,0001n/a
Open Source Collective$46,4271n/a
Forward Change$30,0001n/a
Goodnation Foundation Inc$28,5001n/a
New York University$25,0001n/a
Superbloom Design$5,32710%
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All grantees of Aspiration Aspirationtechorg by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Open Environmental Data Inc$67,50827%
Exchange Point Institute$50,0001n/a
Connect Humanity$50,00011%
Code for Science & Society Inc$50,00010%
Northwestern University$50,0001n/a
Open Source Collective$46,4271n/a
Forward Change$30,0001n/a
Goodnation Foundation Inc$28,5001n/a
New York University$25,0001n/a
Superbloom Design$5,32710%
Friends of Majal Inc$5,12011%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($943k), not named here.

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.

New Venture FundDC15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · The Ford 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 Aspiration Aspirationtechorg

How much does Aspiration Aspirationtechorg give?
Aspiration Aspirationtechorg reported 13 itemized grants totaling $1,318,322, out of $1,792,432 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Aspiration Aspirationtechorg fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (44%), Civil Rights (22%), Science & Tech (8%).
Who are Aspiration Aspirationtechorg's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Open Environmental Data Inc ($68k), Exchange Point Institute ($50k), Connect Humanity ($50k).
Does Aspiration Aspirationtechorg fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Aspiration Aspirationtechorg?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, The Ford Foundation.
Where is Aspiration Aspirationtechorg based?
Aspiration Aspirationtechorg is based in CA.

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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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