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Howmet Aerospace 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
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 $10k16 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k163 grants · $3.4M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $1,600,000 |
| SARAH HEINZ HOUSE | $500,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE | $350,000 |
| MUSKEGON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $304,000 |
| URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $200,000 |
| HOSANNA HOUSE INC | $100,000 |
| MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TORQUAY GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL | $93,160 |
| THE STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN INC | $80,000 |
| UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLOGICA DE CIUDAD ACUNA | $80,000 |
| AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION | $76,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $75,000 |
| SOUTH BAY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC | $75,000 |
| ECOLE DE PRODUCTION DE L'ICAM SITE DE TOULOUSE | $75,000 |
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 US giving — 81% of grant dollars ($32M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 19% that went abroad ($7.7M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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
Beyond the US — 19% of all-years giving ($7.7M)
9 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Howmet Aerospace Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
194 repeat relationships — 114 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 78 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +41%
- TNTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY2× · 2023–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +115%
- SHSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +76%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOLA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -52%
- TOTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $452k
- GGGwens Girls Incone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -8%
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.
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…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…
Girls inc of greater pittsburgh empowers girls to imagine a broader future through a curriculum grounded on female role models delivered by college women mentors, who are themselves mentored by professional women.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kappa Kloset Ltd. 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
236 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. 236 of the 495 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 CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds MUSKEGON LAKESHORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Gwens Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BAY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds ASTROBOTIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOLA Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
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: Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Buhl Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Dollar Bank Foundation
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 Howmet Aerospace 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.
- Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of — 39% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris Inc — 1% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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.
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