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Aurora Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
- JTJUSTICE THROUGH MUSIC PROJECT2× · 2019–2020 · $85k · revenue +7%
- YFYouth for Environmental Sanity4× · 2017–2020 · $82k · revenue +9%
- HAHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $22k
- MFMaui Food Hubone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SASustainable Action Fundone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.…
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.
Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
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.
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.
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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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.
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