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Intel 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
63% of Intel 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 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
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 · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+5 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $12,170,119 |
| THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $4,093,687 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $1,559,450 |
| PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC | $1,000,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC | $300,000 |
| STEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $321k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 62% of Intel 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.
37 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down.
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
- SFSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC5× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +353% · 39% of their budget
- SNSTEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +92%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +81%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $7.6M
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.5M · revenue +26%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
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 nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
Engage a connected community to transform lives with access to the world of science, technology, engineering, and math (stem)
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.
Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Partner with public and private sectors to support creative and innovative programs for the benefit of students of the san luis coastal unified school district in the areas of academics, arts, career technical education, extra-curricular…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholarship America Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 107 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 SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEEKS WITHOUT FRONTIERS ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LULAC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNOVATION ↗
- Who funds TELEVISA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ChickTech ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds AGUILA YOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LATINITAS INC ↗
- Who funds URU THE RIGHT TO BE INC ↗
- Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Infosys Foundation USA · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Broadcom Foundation · Honda USA Foundation · Deloitte Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Intel 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.
- Portland Opportunities Indust Center — 38% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Televisa Foundation Inc — 18% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon — 5% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 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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