· Public charity
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASIAN AMERICANSPACIFIC ISLANDERS 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 |
| FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES | $10,000 |
| HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY | $10,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICANS IN PHILANTHROPY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +305% since the first grant, against +47% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
8 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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