· Private foundation
Aurora 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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,205 |
| The McLean Crew Club | $5,100 |
| Kibir Desta Medical Foundation | $5,000 |
| NETWORK FOR GOOD | $5,000 |
| SEVATRUCK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPARSH | $3,000 |
| GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| Durga Temple of Virginia | $1,353 |
| New Futures | $501 |
| GoFundMe | $500 |
| River Church Baltimore | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
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 (FY18–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +58% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PUPRATHAM USA3× · 2018–2021 · $29k · revenue +17%
- SESANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA4× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +102%
- LCLiteracy Council of Northern Virginia Inc4× · 2017–2022 · $22k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- GFGOONJ FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- GGREATNONPROFITSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -51%
- WDWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +159%
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.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.
DDL`s Work is designed to widen public access to and use of economic, demographic and physical data that describes, defines and seeks to alleviate poverty, especially in the developing world
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.
To create positive social change for millions of under-served people across the developing world by providing critically needed information and education through innovative media, appropriate technology and direct community engagement.
Water for good's mission is to transform lives through sustainable access to safe water as well as improved sanitation and hygiene in the places that need it most.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
Givewell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free.
Development gateway (dg) creates tools and design processes that help collect, visualize, and use data for a more equitable world. for 20 years, we have built systems, dashboards, and tools to create more effective, open, and engaging…
FFWD accelerates the growth of technology nonprofits by providing financial and human capital to help scale technology solutions for education, environmental, health, and human rights issues.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
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 PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds SevaTruck Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOONJ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATNONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHIYANAA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN CREW CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Kibir Desta Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SHOUT ↗
- Who funds TOUCHING LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Aurora Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aurora Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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