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Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc

Abfe's mission is to promote effective and responsive philanthropy in black communities. As an institution, abfe seeks to impact the community of philanthropic practice and thereby the overall health and strength of the black community.

$70k
Granted FY2017
7
Grants FY2017
6
Organizations funded FY2017
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63% of Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Tides Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $70k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
3
’23
3
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$10,000
States reached, FY2017
3
Total assets, FY2017
$24M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$1.3MPhilanthropy$520k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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.

The Wallace FoundationNY13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Wallace Foundation · Hispanics in Philanthropy · Borealis Philanthropy · The California Wellness Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gates Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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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How do I get to Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc?

Find your warmest path to Association of Black Foundation Executives 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.

About Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc

How much does Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc give?
Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc reported 7 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (71%), Philanthropy (29%).
Who are Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Native Americans in Philanthropy ($765k), Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc ($265k), Hispanics in Philanthropy ($265k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Wallace Foundation, Hispanics in Philanthropy, Borealis Philanthropy.
Where is Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc based?
Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc is based in NY.

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 8 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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