· Private foundation
Aylward Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAWHIDE- OPERATING | $175,000 |
| THE GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH | $50,000 |
| TREES FOR TOMORROW | $40,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEENAH | $35,000 |
| WAYLAND ACADEMY | $27,500 |
| HSPPR- HUMANE SOCIETY OF PIKES | $25,000 |
| CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF FOX CITIES | $10,000 |
| HAZELDEN | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY PALM BEACH | $10,000 |
| SAFE PLACE FOR PETS | $7,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS | $7,500 |
| SAN LUIS VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE | $7,500 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- WAWAYLAND ACADEMY5× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +49%
- TGTHE GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH INC2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +63%
TREES FOR TOMORROW INC2× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGIONone grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +16%
- CSCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +38%
- RCRIPON COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +25%
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.
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.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
To elevate the profession that transforms lives through the power of financial planning.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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.
The organization's mission is to educate and inspire people of all ages about aviation and space endeavors of the past, present, and future.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eaa Aviation Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 WAYLAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds THREE EAGLE TRAIL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWO FOX CITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds RIPON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FUTURE NEENAH INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION 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: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Aylward Family 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.
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.