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El Roble Azul 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of El Roble Azul Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year El Roble Azul Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $551k
- $250k+2 grants · $755k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF UFM INC | $417,400 |
| ATLAS NETWORK | $337,340 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY | $233,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $163,750 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $53,800 |
| FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY | $50,000 |
| GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERV FD | $50,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $10,345 |
| PROPERTY ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTE | $10,000 |
| INTL WALDENSTROMS MACROGIOBULINEMIA FDN | $10,000 |
| NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FDTN | $7,500 |
| HEARTLAND INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| THE ATLAS SOCIETY | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of your 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.
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 +71% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FOFRIENDS OF UFM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $434k · revenue +12%
- TRTHE REASON FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $209k · revenue +89%
- FFFoundation for Economic Education Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $164k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SFSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $233k · revenue +46%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +57%
- GDGUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERV FDone grant, 2018 · $50k
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The mission of independence institute is to empower individuals and to educate citizens,legislators and opinion makers about public policies that enhance personal and economic freedom.
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.
The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
The phoenix center was established in 1998 with a mission to provide independent assessments of the economic and material implications of regulatory and economic policy in the u.s. and abroad. to achieve this goal, the center supports…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Government Accountability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UFM INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV ↗
- Who funds Nutritionfactsorg Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · The Dunn Foundation · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · Charles Koch Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 El Roble Azul 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, a single department, or state — 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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