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Avery Dennison Foundation
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
63% of Avery Dennison Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to King Baudouin Foundation Us Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 49 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Avery Dennison Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 47 organizations, $5M. 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k46 grants · $301k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KING BAUDOUIN FNDTN UNITED STATES INC | $802,770 |
| UNICEF USA | $333,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS (IMC) | $333,000 |
| HOLA OHIO | $300,000 |
| WOMEN WIN FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN | $250,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION | $240,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $200,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $200,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION | $190,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY | $165,426 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION | $160,367 |
| THE RESOURCE FOUNDATION | $135,000 |
| GLOBALGIVING | $106,363 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $100,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $640k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 38% of Avery Dennison Foundation’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 +29% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2022, 36 since wound down; 93 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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 FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $950k 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
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF3× · 2017–2022 · $683k · revenue +76%- AAACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +8%
- USUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES3× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +54%
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +98%- RTRIGHT TO PLAY USAone grant, 2021 · $100k
- RARAINFOREST ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +157%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The mission of women's world banking is to expand the economicassets, participation and power of low-income women and theirhouseholds by helping them access financial services, knowledge andmarkets. for more information, see schedule o.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Pants Off Racing. 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 28 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
179 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 179 of the 261 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Global Impact ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLA OHIO ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Women Win Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds AVINA AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Global Forest Generation ↗
- Who funds Asheville GreenWorks ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING MARKETS LTD ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNAR FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds IDEOORG ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds IMPACT HUB TRUST ↗
- Who funds LAKE-GEAUGA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds DIVERSITY CENTER OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Jerome T Osborne and Georgeanne S Osborne Charitable Trust · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family 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 Avery Dennison 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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