· Private foundation
Idex Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Idex Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Idex Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 63 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k49 grants · $273k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $515k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $305k
- $250k+1 grant · $291k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Charities Aid Foundation America | $291,075 |
| Boys and Girls Club | $100,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club Charlotte Count | $55,000 |
| Cuidando Los Ninos | $50,000 |
| American Red Cross | $50,000 |
| Mile High United Way | $50,000 |
| Boulder County Crisis Fund | $40,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Rochester | $30,000 |
| Purdue Research Foundation | $30,000 |
| Purdue University | $30,000 |
| Autism Up | $29,900 |
| Jewish Family Services | $29,000 |
| Instituto Del Progresso Latino | $25,000 |
| I Empathize | $25,000 |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $533k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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
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 +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 70 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +23%
- KAKids Above All Illinois2× · 2020–2021 · $90k · revenue +68%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $88k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- BABoys and Girls Club Americaone grant, 2021 · $100k
- BABoys and Girls Club Central Floridaone grant, 2021 · $34k
- DCDr Cornell A Bell BOPone grant, 2021 · $30k
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 food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
End hunger together.
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is Pabneeg. 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 40 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.
109 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. 109 of the 171 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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Kids Above All Illinois ↗
- Who funds NORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CUIDANDO LOS NIOS INC ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds Feeding Kids Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds iEmpathize ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Rochester Childfirst Network ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds CRSM Work Study Inc ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD OHIO ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AUTISMUP 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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Esl Charitable Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Female Charitable Society · Summers Foundation Inc · Waldron Rise 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 Idex 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.
- Boys' & Girls' Club of New Britain Inc — 58% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Friends of Jack Foundation Inc — 36% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Marion County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries 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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