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Autonation Foundation Inc

Providing disaster and hardship relief to autonation, inc employees and business partners, to provide a mechanism to collect and distribute support to cancer-related charities and organizations and as a vehicle for collecting and distributing to the immediate needs of the autonation communities.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$205k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$2.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$60k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
$95,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN$205,000
NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC$95,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$50,000
JESSICA JUNE CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION INC$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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $250k → 17%NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $95k → 13%BROWARD EDUCATION FNDN INC: $60k → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $50k → 13%The Cleveland Clinic Foundation: $673k → 17%THE BREAST CANCER FNDN INC: $190k → 17%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC: $190k → 13%THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $205k → 17%JESSICA JUNE CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 13%MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $361k → 13%Memorial Foundation Inc: $350k → 13%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 3 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$2.2M
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’24’25
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TC
    THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +27%
  • MF
    MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $711k · revenue +2%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $440k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • Nova Southeastern University Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $190k · revenue +39%
  • BE
    Broward Education Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue -59%
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

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…

Health
4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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.

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5
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
8
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

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…

Health
10
Miami Children's Health System Inc

Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…

Health
11
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
12
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Broward Education Foundation Inc. 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

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $1,055,500 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURNNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · HealthNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $25,000 · HealthMEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $711,000 · OtherMEMORIAL FOUNDATION INCTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $440,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BREAST CANCER …Nova Southeastern University Inc: $190,000 · EducationNova South…Broward Education Foundation Inc: $60,000 · EducationBroward Ed…
Health$1,225,500Other$711,000Public Safety & Disaster$440,000Education$250,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $1,055,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $711,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $440,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $190,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJESSICA JUNE CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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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How do I get to Autonation Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Autonation 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 8 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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