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Avesta 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,600
Organizations funded a year
24 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$823k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Avesta Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$5k75%
FY202328$11k11%
FY202226$11k0%
FY202131$13k26%
FY202024$10k21%
FY201928$11k11%
FY201830$12k30%
FY201729$12kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$20kHealth$16kHuman Services$11kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$7kReligion$3kArts & Culture$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Avesta Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood of Michigan: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $4,023 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Providence: $3,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse of Oakland County: $3,100 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGrace Centers of Hope: $3,010 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $1,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,450 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc: $1,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPrion Alliance Inc: $1,170 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFinca International Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Country Day School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeed the Children Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeader Dogs for the Blind: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House Michigan: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinds Matter of Los Angeles Inc: $206 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPersia House of Michigan: $100 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Avesta Foundation

How much does Avesta Foundation give?
Avesta Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $5,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Avesta Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (23%), Health (19%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Avesta Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Planned Parenthood of Michigan ($5k), United States Fund for Unicef ($4k), House of Providence ($3k).
Does Avesta Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Avesta Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Avesta Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Avesta Foundation based?
Avesta Foundation is based in MI.

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 61 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-PF 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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