· Public charity
Aws Foundation Incorporated
The aws foundation was established by the american welding society on september 13, 1989, to support programs that ensure the growth and development of the welding industry through strengthening research and educational opportunities in welding and related industries.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $433,569 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,736,507 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,302,938 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $355k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $35,000 |
| RIMROCK JRSR HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LAWRENCE-NELSON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| SANTA FE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| TIDIOUTE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $24,955 |
| THE MILL NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER | $24,846 |
| BRISTOL TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER | $24,799 |
| CAPITAL AREA CAREER CENTER | $24,536 |
| EL CAPITAN HIGH SCHOOL | $24,534 |
| MILTON HIGH SCHOOL | $24,457 |
| CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE | $24,243 |
| CARROLLTON AREA CAREER CENTER | $20,400 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $17,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of your 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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k 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
- TOTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $105k
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $88k
- WSWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2023 · $39k
Funded once
- LULeTourneau Universitygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $160k · revenue +56%
- JIJUST IN TIME CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $142k
- TGTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAone grant, 2023 · $53k · revenue +5%
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.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
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Education
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As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crowder College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rockland Boces Family Resource Center 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.
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 25 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 74 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 LeTourneau University ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKLAND BOCES FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA FALLS AREA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CARPENTERS TRAINING TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds Dixie Technical College ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAURY COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS INC ↗
- Who funds CROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Tidioute Community Charter School ↗
- Who funds James Irwin Charter Schools ↗
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: I Car Education Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Share Our Strength · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Aws Foundation Incorporated 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.
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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