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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$823k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIAGN$2,600
PARALYZED$1,500
PRION ALLIANCE INC$1,170
TEMPLE BETH$130
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $500 → 21%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $500 → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $500 → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $500 → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $500 → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $500 → 8%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $500 → 21%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $500 → 21%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $500 → 21%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $500 → 8%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $500 → 21%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $100 → 8%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $500 → 21%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $500 → 21%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $250 → 21%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72k · 39 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
18

Total granted

$72k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+35%

Still filing today

51%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +28%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    6× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +76%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • DC
    DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +35%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +46%
  • JU
    JG US INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
5
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
8
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
9
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
10
Edward W Sparrow Hospital

Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate care to everyone, every time.

Health
11
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
12
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed the Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

29 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. 29 of the 61 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
25/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER: $7,000 · OtherDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN: $3,500 · OtherCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHENHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $3,500 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALMAKE A WISH: $3,500 · OtherMAKE A WISHGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $3,010 · OtherGRACE CENTERS OF HOPEUNIVERSITY OF MICHIAGN: $2,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIAGNOXFAM: $2,007 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,759 · OtherOMID FOUNDATION: $1,750 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,750 · OtherPARALYZED: $1,500 · Other+26 more: $12,965 · Other+26 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $4,023 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND …COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $3,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASS…Save The Children Federation Inc: $2,000 · InternationalSave The Children F…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATI…FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL…FEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN I…Mercy Ships International: $500 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 · InternationalPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $2,000 · HealthDetroit Rescu…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,750 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…PRION ALLIANCE INC: $1,170 · HealthPRION ALLIANC…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthHOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $3,250 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF PR…LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $3,100 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $850 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS…COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HO…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,650 · EducationCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC: $1,350 · EducationDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $206 · Youth Development
Other$44,841International$14,273Health$10,420Human Services$8,700Education$4,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Youth Development$206

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

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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $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
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.

  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PRION ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗

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 …Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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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