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Ayudar Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$3.4MEnvironment$916kAnimals$641kHealth$260kPublic Safety & Disaster$210kCivil Rights$87kScience & Tech$46kHuman Services$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$200,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$200,000
DIRECT RELIEF INTL$100,000
COLORADO ANIMAL RESCUE EXPRESS$100,000
PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND$100,000
CRISIS AID INTERNATIONAL$100,000
CURE BLINDNESS PROJECT$50,000
PHYSICIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH$50,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$50,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$50,000
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 (FY17–22, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRISIS AID INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 11%CRISIS AID INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 11%HELPING HAND: $20k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER: $7k → 8%HELPING HANDS: $5k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER: $5k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER: $3k → 8%NARAL PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $35k → 14%NARAL PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $30k → 14%NARAL PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $20k → 14%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

VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
DC
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 66 repeat orgs$625k to everyone else

66 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
56

Total granted

$5.0M
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+52%

Still filing today

85%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $800k · revenue +98%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $390k · revenue +20%
  • PC
    PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TI
    TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -52%
  • WA
    WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -51%
  • BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -25%
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
3
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
6
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
7
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
8
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
9
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
10
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
11
United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…

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12
Asia Wild

Asia Wild is committed to rescuing and protecting the welfare of animals worldwide. They support small, locally-focused organizations that tirelessly combat numerous issues that threaten wildlife survival, including poaching, abuse,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildaid Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Mill Dog Rescue. 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

96 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. 96 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/96
Grantees still filing
72/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $800,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $300,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUNDDIRECT RELIEF: $243,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $200,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMSHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $200,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $200,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $150,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $146,000 · International+20 more: $707,000 · International+20 moreCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $200,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOL…Colorado Animal Rescue Express (CARE): $200,000 · AnimalsColorado Animal…THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $110,000 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SA…HELP ANIMALS INDIA: $43,000 · AnimalsHELP ANIMALS IN…THE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Animals+28 more: $178,000 · Animals+28 moreAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $255,000 · EnvironmentAMAZON CONS…Beyond Pesticides: $50,000 · EnvironmentBeyond Pest…TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $40,000 · EnvironmentTURTLE ISLA…FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $40,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF …THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERV…CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch Inc: $20,000 · Environment+3 more: $37,000 · Environment+3 moreHELPING HANDS FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPM: $135,000 · OtherHELPING HAND…INDIA RELIEF DEVELOPMENT FUND: $77,000 · OtherINDIA RELIEF…ALIGHT (AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE): $67,030 · OtherALIGHT (AMER…CURE BLINDNESS PROJECT: $50,000 · OtherCURE BLINDNE…NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION: $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL ABO…ARAFTA AID FOR THE HORN OF AFRICA: $39,000 · OtherARAFTA AID F…Individual grant recipient: $22,000 · Other+33 more: $194,000 · Other+33 moreINTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC: $390,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIO…REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $85,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTI…HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $115,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,000 · Civil RightsBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC: $5,000 · Health
International$2,946,000Animals$766,000Environment$577,000Other$629,030Human Services$515,000Civil Rights$117,000Health$50,000

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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $800,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC: $390,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $255,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $243,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $200,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Animal Rescue Express (CARE): $200,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $146,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $115,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $110,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $66,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Pesticides: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHELP ANIMALS INDIA: $43,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation: $42,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBUS RELIEF: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAP International Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Mill Dog Rescue: $19,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY: $16,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALIGHT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt-A-Native Elder: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIDAS: $15,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Give Lively Foundatio…Humane World for Anim…Petsmart Charities IncGreater Good CharitiesThe Duffield Family F…Shell USA Company Fou…BISSELL Pet FoundationAbbVie FoundationMarin Community Found…Petco LoveNetwork for Good
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY27.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Humane World for Animals Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Greater Good Charities · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Petco Love · Network for Good

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 Ayudar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ayudar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report 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 124 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home