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Aurora Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$278k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$109k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$985kCivil Rights$239kArts & Culture$229kEducation$186kPhilanthropy$140kFood & Nutrition$97kScience & Tech$78kHealth$64kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $109k
$15,150
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JUST ONE PROJECT$109,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$35,000
CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY$35,000
US RIGHT TO KNOW$22,000
AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM$20,060
AMAZON WATCH$15,150
MCKENNA ACADEMY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY INC$15,000
FUNGI FOUNDATION$10,297
EMERGENCE BENEFACTORS$9,500
SMITH CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS$5,000
RESTORATIVE PRACTICE ALLIANCES$1,000
THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$520
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%US RIGHT TO KNOW: $22k → 10%US Right to Know: $5k → 10%US Right to Know: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
IA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
HI
AL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 33 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
28

Total granted

$1.6M
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+85%

Still filing today

58%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureScience & TechHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • JT
    JUSTICE THROUGH MUSIC PROJECT
    2× · 2019–2020 · $85k · revenue +7%
  • YF
    Youth for Environmental Sanity
    4× · 2017–2020 · $82k · revenue +9%
  • HA
    HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $22k
  • MF
    Maui Food Hub
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • SA
    Sustainable Action Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
2
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

Environment
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
Environment Now
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
7
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

8
Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge

Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.

Science & Tech
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
11
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
12
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyGovernment Accountability R…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Asian American Advocacy & H…Land Conservation Organizat…Independent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Arts OrganizationsProfessional Ballet Compani…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Native Hawaiian Community D…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%44%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,527

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.

04the grantee network

37 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
20/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $325,990 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative — $163,281 · OtherThe Haiku Aina Permaculture InitiativeTHE TRACKING PROJECT INC — $128,660 · OtherTHE TRACKING PROJECT INCIceers Foundation — $70,549 · OtherWakan Foundation — $68,259 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $57,200 · OtherGo Green Culture Foundation — $56,000 · Other+47 more — $551,658 · Other+47 moreYouth for Environmental Sanity — $81,500 · EnvironmentYouth for…The Pachamama Alliance — $48,100 · EnvironmentThe Pacha…Amazon Watch Inc — $22,725 · EnvironmentAmazon Wa…BIO BAMBOO INC — $14,000 · EnvironmentBIO BAMBO…FUNGI FOUNDATION INC — $10,297 · EnvironmentFUNGI FOU…+3 more — $4,500 · EnvironmentTHE JUST ONE PROJECT — $109,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY — $17,500 · PhilanthropyNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyInstitute for Responsible Technology — $78,400 · Science & TechAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $36,710 · Science & TechJUSTICE THROUGH MUSIC PROJECT — $85,000 · Civil RightsMOVE TO AMEND — $17,250 · Civil RightsHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION — $65,000 · Community ImprovementMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER — $25,500 · Arts & CultureHUICHOL CENTER FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND TRADITIONAL ARTS — $17,000 · Arts & CultureThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,421,597Environment$181,122Philanthropy$131,500Science & Tech$115,110Civil Rights$102,250Community Improvement$65,000Arts & Culture$52,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative — $163,281 over 5y, 51% of budgetTHE TRACKING PROJECT INC — $128,660 over 5y, 32% of budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT — $109,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUSTICE THROUGH MUSIC PROJECT — $85,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetYouth for Environmental Sanity — $81,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetInstitute for Responsible Technology — $78,400 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION — $65,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance — $48,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $36,710 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Food Safety — $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUS RIGHT TO KNOW — $28,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER — $25,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION — $23,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc — $22,725 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEDIA COLLECTIVE INC — $22,500 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY — $17,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMOVE TO AMEND — $17,250 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHUICHOL CENTER FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND TRADITIONAL ARTS — $17,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMCKENNA ACADEMY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCOLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE — $14,930 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH — $13,708 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFUNGI FOUNDATION INC — $10,297 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmergence Benefactors — $9,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $8,515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED TRUST — $7,049 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPono Hawaii Initiative — $6,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD & WATER ACTION FUND — $3,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
  • Who funds THE TRACKING PROJECT INC
  • Who funds THE JUST ONE PROJECT
  • Who funds JUSTICE THROUGH MUSIC PROJECT
  • Who funds Youth for Environmental Sanity
  • Who funds Institute for Responsible Technology
  • Who funds HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION
  • Who funds The Pachamama Alliance
  • Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM
  • Who funds Center for Food Safety
  • Who funds US RIGHT TO KNOW
  • Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER
  • Who funds ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Amazon Watch Inc
  • Who funds MEDIA COLLECTIVE INC
  • Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY
  • Who funds MOVE TO AMEND
  • Who funds HUICHOL CENTER FOR CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND TRADITIONAL ARTS
  • Who funds THE NEW MEXICO DANCE COALITION
  • Who funds MCKENNA ACADEMY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY INC
  • Who funds COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE
  • Who funds BIO BAMBOO INC
  • Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH
  • Who funds FUNGI FOUNDATION 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.

Tides FoundationCA16.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Gerry-Corbett Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation

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 Aurora 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Aurora Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Aurora Foundation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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