· Private foundation
Avantor Sciences Foundation % Avantor Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Avantor Sciences Foundation % Avantor Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Blackbaud Giving Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Avantor Sciences Foundation % Avantor Inc named its own grantees at scale: 101 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k172 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STIFTUNG SOZIALWERK PFARRER SIEBER | $121,250 |
| PROJECT HOPE THE PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GREENLIGHT FOR GIRLS | $100,000 |
| THE ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT TRUST | $87,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA | $80,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
| ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC | $78,375 |
| GIRLS INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA & SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY | $75,000 |
| MATERNITY CARE COALITION | $75,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $65,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| PINEWOODS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER | $1,000 |
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 US giving — 81% of grant dollars ($4.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 19% that went abroad ($1.0M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 19% of all-years giving ($1.0M)
6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 39% of Avantor Sciences Foundation % Avantor Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 114 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $304k 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
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $390k · revenue +53%- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA3× · 2020–2023 · $225k · revenue +76%
- GIGIRLS INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY3× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- SGSTEM GEMS Incone grant, 2022 · $86k · revenue -4% · 61% of their budget
- HLHEALTHSERVE LTDone grant, 2022 · $85k
- SCSATA COMMHEALTHone grant, 2021 · $85k
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Lumen Christi. 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 36 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
132 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. 132 of the 189 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 BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUMITY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STEM GEMS Inc ↗
- Who funds CARMELLA ROSE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds HEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds WAKE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC (DBA RIGHTCARE) ↗
- Who funds GIRLS 4 SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMSA FUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SCHMAHL SCIENCE WORKSHOPS INC ↗
- Who funds BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds Community Resources for Science ↗
- Who funds FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY 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: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · AbbVie Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Avantor Sciences Foundation % Avantor Inc 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.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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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