· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TIDES CENTER KAIROS CENTER POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN | $25,000 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC | $25,000 |
| URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC | $25,000 |
| ECHOING GREEN INC | $25,000 |
| SPIRIT AWAKENING FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DION'S CHICAGO DREAM INC | $20,000 |
| NY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP GRASSROOTS GROCERY | $20,000 |
| COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC | $20,000 |
| NATIVE RENEWABLES INC | $20,000 |
| SMART BEGINNINGS EASY PREVENTIONS | $20,000 |
| BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC BRIDGE BOSTON CHARTER SCHOOL | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- DDD-REV DESIGNone grant, 2020 · $20k
- EHEqualize Health Formerly D-Revone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -100%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Tomorrows Leaders NYC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- 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 GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds HALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARRISON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KIMOKEO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACTION TO PREVENT WAR AND ARMED CONFLICT INC ↗
- Who funds TREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRICYCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATION CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The a & a Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The a & a Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- College for Social Innovation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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