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Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Foundation Inc

To support people and promote global projects tackling the needs of the most helpless and destitute Aurora is rooted in the events of the Armenian Genocide one hundred years ago and the enhancement of its position in the world's memory.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$640kPhilanthropy$350kHealth$245kArts & Culture$50kEducation$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $355,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,503,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,148,800 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Clinton Foundation$200,000
Panzi Foundation$100,000
Catholic Medical Mission Brd$30,000
Georges Malaika Fdn$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AFRICAN MISSION HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S INSTITUTE OF ARMENIAN STUDIES: $10k → 14%Catholic Medical Mission Brd: $30k → 13%AHA FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%Clinton Foundation: $200k → 17%Panzi Foundation: $100k → 14%CREATING HOPE INT'L: $10k → 21%NOOW PARTNERSHIP: $250k → 14%CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $145k → 17%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50k → 14%NOOW PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 14%Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc: $50k → 17%NY CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP: $100k → 17%Georges Malaika Fdn: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $2.1M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $2.0M to organizations and $153k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Russia and Neighboring States$1.8M · 85% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN ASSIST

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$214k · 10% · 4 grants · 3 people

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN ASSIST · Grants to Humanitarians

Sub-Saharan Africa$89k · 4% · 2 grants · 2 people

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN ASSIST · Grants To Humanitarians

East Asia and the Pacific$10k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN ASSIST

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$925k · 3 repeat orgs$360k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$925k
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TI
    THESENTRYORG INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $350k · revenue -4%
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +59%
  • CM
    CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $225k · revenue -25%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • AM
    African Mission Healthcare Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +30%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
2
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
3
Women in Global Health Inc

Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.

Public Benefit
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
6
Asian University for Women (Auw) Support Foundation

Asian university for women (auw) seeks to offer high quality education to young women of extraordinary talents drawn from diverse national, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds. see schedule o for continuation.it is open to…

Education
7
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
8
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
9
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
10
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
11
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
12
The Malala Fund

We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Creating Hope International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THESENTRYORG INC: $350,000 · InternationalTHESENTRYORG INCCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $225,000 · InternationalCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INCPANZI FOUNDATION: $100,000 · InternationalPANZI FOUNDATIONAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $50,000 · InternationalAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation+3 more: $45,000 · International+3 moreBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $350,000 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON…NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $100,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · Education
International$770,000Health$350,000Other$100,000Arts & Culture$50,000Human Services$15,000Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHESENTRYORG INC: $350,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANZI FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAHA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Charities Aid Foundat…Boston Foundation IncImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Boston Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 42%
  • Aha Foundation Inc: 42% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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