· Private foundation
The a & a Fund
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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $380k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUNGKAR GONPA SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY (LEX HIXON ARCHIVE FUND) | $40,000 |
| MUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES | $35,000 |
| TOMORROW'S LEADERS NYC | $30,000 |
| URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC | $25,000 |
| ECHOING GREEN INC | $25,000 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC | $25,000 |
| TIDES CENTER KAIROS CENTER POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN | $25,000 |
| SMART BEGINNINGS EASY PREVENTIONS | $20,000 |
| NY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP GRASSROOTS GROCERY | $20,000 |
| SPIRIT AWAKENING FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DION'S CHICAGO DREAM INC | $20,000 |
| COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC | $20,000 |
| NATIVE RENEWABLES INC | $20,000 |
| BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC BRIDGE BOSTON CHARTER SCHOOL | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of your 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 +56% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- EGECHOING GREEN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +32%
- SASPIRIT AWAKENING FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +79%
- UAURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- HCHALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue 0%
- EHEqualize Health Formerly D-Revone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -100%
- DDD-REV DESIGNone grant, 2020 · $20k
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 global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…
Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation or global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
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…
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E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Greenwood's mission is to create career pathways in the financial services industry for black and latino college students. we partner with companies to find equitable and inclusive solutions for recruitment, retention, and advancement. our…
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 God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spirit Awakening Foundation. 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 18 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT AWAKENING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds Tomorrows Leaders NYC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE RENEWABLES INC ↗
- Who funds DIONS CHICAGO DREAM INC NFP ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds MUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES ↗
- Who funds HALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARRISON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KIMOKEO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACTION TO PREVENT WAR AND ARMED CONFLICT INC ↗
- Who funds TREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds TRICYCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATION CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION 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: Echoing Green Inc · California Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The a & a Fund 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.
- College for Social Innovation Inc — 30% 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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