· Private foundation
Auer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $6,991 |
| CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES | $6,900 |
| SPOONER HOUSE | $6,600 |
| NOURISH BRIDGEPORT | $6,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF CNY | $6,500 |
| RISE INC | $6,375 |
| OPEN DOORS | $6,000 |
| FUTURE 5 INC | $5,950 |
| RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| GUADALUPE CENTER-CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| ARIZONA DIAPER BANK | $4,250 |
| CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF OSWEGO COUNTY | $4,000 |
| BRIDGE TO HOME | $3,335 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL-ANNAPOLIS | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +71%
- F5FUTURE 5 INC6× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +82%
- KEKids Empowered by Your Support Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- JHJOSEPH HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $6k
- DRDAVID'S REFUGE INCone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +16%
- NJNORTH JERSEY FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +24%
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Little flower is committed to improving the well-being of the children, families, and individuals with developmental disabilities across nyc and long island so they can reach their full potential. little flower transforms caring into…
Founded in 1963, abbott house builds lasting foundations under children, families, and adults with complex needs. we support nearly 2,500 individuals which includes, children in foster care, unaccompanied immigrant children, adults with…
Vns health home care is part of one of the nation's largest nonprofit home and community-based health care organizations. we help people live, age, and heal where they feel most comfortable. please refer to schedule o for additional…
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
Goodlife's mission is to make a meaningful difference in the everyday lives of individuals who need help to live more independently (individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, brain injuries, physical or age-related…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The mission of ability beyond is to discover, build, and celebrate the ability in all people. with approximately 1,100 full-time and part-time employees, ability beyond serves more than 3,000 individuals with disabilities each year.we…
Children's flight of hope (cfoh) provides flights to essential, life-changing, and life-saving medical care for children in need. together with our donors, partners, and champions, we help ease the emotional and financial burden on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Honor Ehg Inc and the most unlike its peers is Believe Your Grreatness Corp. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 157 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 THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds RISE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHANCES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HONOR EHG INC ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Youth Network ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPECAM INC ↗
- Who funds Grossman Burn Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRUST FUND OF VOLUNTEER LEAGUE OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH JERSEY FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE PURSUIT ↗
- Who funds SPACE OF HER OWN 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Shelter Partnership Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Columbia Bank Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Auer Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- North Jersey Friendship House Inc — 19% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Green Village Initiative Inc — 14% of income from government
- Connecticut Nurses Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Acorn Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Phoenix Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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.