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Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc
Abfe's mission is to promote effective and responsive philanthropy in black communities.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIVE AMERICANS IN PHILANTHROPY | $10,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC (PASS-THRU) | $10,000 |
| EMERGING PRACTITIONERS IN PHILANTHROPY (TIDES CENTER) | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S FUNDING NETWORK | $10,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICANSPACIFIC ISLANDERS IN PHILANTHROPY | $10,000 |
| HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY | $10,000 |
| FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +305% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Native Americans in Philanthropy4× · 2017–2025 · $765k · revenue +928%
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc4× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +305%
HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY4× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FFFUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +47%
ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +328%- WFWomens Funding Networkone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tides Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 Native Americans in Philanthropy ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds FUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Funding Network ↗
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: 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
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 Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc 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.
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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