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Better Together - the Advantage Solutions Education 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of BETTER TOGETHER - THE ADVANTAGE SOLUTIONS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $769k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $175,000 |
| HEB TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS CHARITABLE TRUST | $109,100 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | $100,000 |
| Friends of Costco Guild | $95,000 |
| SEG Gives Foundation | $65,000 |
| The Albertsons Companies Foundation | $45,000 |
| Century Club Charities | $26,000 |
| VETERANS FUTURE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Scholarship America | $18,625 |
| WEIS MARKETS INC | $16,000 |
| UNITED WAY INC | $15,000 |
| Food Marketing Educational Foundation | $15,000 |
| New Jersey Food Council | $11,000 |
| PINK RIBBON GOOD INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
The gastric cancer foundation helps patients to face their diagnosis with reliable information, tools to navigate the journey, and a compassionate community that truly understands. the foundation funds research initiatives that contribute…
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.
The Foundation delivers innovative research, state-of-the-art training and best-in-class education programs to the food industry and consumers and, thereby, contributes to the delivery of high quality, safe food and consumer products. The…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust. 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 32 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 58 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 AHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds HEB TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD) ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTURY CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD MARKETING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY FOOD COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FMI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds C&S CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNFI Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CANCER CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds RICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC FOOD TRADE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK 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: Key Food Stores Foundation Inc · Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Better Together - the Advantage Solutions Education 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.
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