· Public charity
Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc
Established in 1992, the foundation is one of the leading independent aids organizations in the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $5,944,709 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,486,898 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,542,189 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $293k
- $250k+6 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZIPLINE INTERNATIONAL INC | $2,871,282 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $647,968 |
| MPACT (THE GLOBAL FORUM ON MSM) | $606,674 |
| PREVENTION ACCESS CAMPAIGN | $546,487 |
| CENTER FOR HIV LAW AND POLICY | $503,592 |
| THE VISION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $311,095 |
| GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PROJECT | $239,798 |
| BUILDING HEALTHY ONLINE COMMUNITIES | $52,733 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST AIDS TB AND MALARIA | $45,000 |
| GLOBAL BLACK GAY MEN CONNECT | $25,000 |
| CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE | $12,745 |
| FUNDERS CONCERNED ABOUT AIDS | $11,000 |
| POPULATION COUNCIL | $10,880 |
| AIDS UNITED | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN AIDS COALITION 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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $7.5M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +90% since the first grant, against +70% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
AIDS UNITED5× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +11% · 55% of their budget- SHSPRINGBOARD HEALTHLAB2× · 2023–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +65%
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN3× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +590%
Funded once
- PIPREP4ALL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $665k · revenue +59%
- FHFamily Health International Incone grant, 2022 · $517k · revenue -35%
- AFAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INCone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -7%
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.
San francisco aids foundation promotes health, wellness, and social justice for communities most impacted by hiv, through sexual health and substance use services, advocacy, and community partnerships.
Stap compassionately and competently meets the evolving needs of its communities by serving people affected by chronic illness and to improve public health through disease prevention, care coordination, and advocacy.
Aids community resources, inc. d/b/a acr health, is a community-based organization providing prevention, education, and support services to people with chronic illnesses, including hiv/aids, and those at risk for contracting hiv, stds, and…
The mission of legacy community health services is, "driving healthy change in our communities." our vision is, "connecting our communities to health every day, in every way."
Provide HIV/STD testing and support for those affected
Afro Pride fosters the mental and social wellness of the Afrocentric LGBTQ community and those who love and support them.
To promote health, well-being, and social justice for those living with HIV, LGBTQ+ individuals, and communities marginalized by society.
The hiv+hepatitis policy institute promotes quality and affordable healthcare for people living with or at risk of hiv, hepatitis, and other serious and chronic health conditions. monitors policies that impact the prevention and treatment…
3 Kings Project is at the forefront of driving positive representation and visibility in minority communities, with a mission to eradicate health inequities impacting Black and Brown LGBTQ populations.
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
Over 9,000 clients are served by gmhc's programs each year. gmhc provides a broad array of programs through the efforts of clinicians, trained volunteers, and professional staff who identify undiagnosed cases on hiv, ensure access and…
Alianza's mission is to empower hard-to-reach, vulnerable, and underserved populations through education and supportive services aimed at working with everyone we serve to achieve better outcomes and higher quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 30 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 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
174 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 174 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AIDS UNITED ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD HEALTHLAB ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN ↗
- Who funds VITAL STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PREP4ALL INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Family Health International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VISION COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds AIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA HARM REDUCTION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HARM REDUCTION COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Equality Ohio Education Fund ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SERO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Aids Action Network ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AIDS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN AIDS COALITION ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SS INC ↗
- Who funds My Brother's Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Remedy Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TAG TREATMENT ACTION GROUP 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: AIDS United · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · The Mac AIDS Fund · The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation · The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation · AIDS Healthcare Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Emory University · Human Rights Campaign Foundation · National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directorsdba Nastad · Borealis Philanthropy · National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 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 Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc 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.
- Hiv Alliance — 54% of income from government
- Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance Inc — 43% of income from government
- Guiding Right Inc — 28% of income from government
- North Jersey Aids Alliance Inc — 26% of income from government
- Basic Nwfl Inc — 23% of income from government
- Hyacinth Aids Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Out Now Inc — 2% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
- Big Bend Cares Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miracle of Love Inc — 0% of income from government
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.