· Private foundation
The Abelard Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of The Abelard Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Abelard Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $144k. 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADELANTE STUDENT VOICES | $15,000 |
| MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| STRUGGLE FOR MIAMI'S AFFORDABLE AND SUSTAINABLE HOUSING | $15,000 |
| THE PEOPLES PORT AUTHORITY | $15,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA JOBS WITH JUSTICE | $12,000 |
| WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES | $12,000 |
| ALIANZA AGRICOLA | $12,000 |
| MICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION | $12,000 |
| FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA | $12,000 |
| PROVIDENCE STUDENT UNION | $12,000 |
| LA CONEXION | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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
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 +50% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 45 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- SFStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +20%
- ASADELANTE STUDENT VOICES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +97%
- AFADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY AND RURAL EDUCATION4× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue +29%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
- MAMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT - MOVEMENT OF IMMIGRANT LEADERS IN PAone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
Workers Rights
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.
Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…
To advance the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. They envision a nation where all workers enjoy the rights to:…
Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.
Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mississippi Immigrant Rights Allian. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 142 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 BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds Struggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE STUDENT VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLES PORT AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY AND RURAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds LA CONEXION ↗
- Who funds Alianza Agricola Inc ↗
- Who funds Providence Student Union ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds ACTION INSTITUTE NC ↗
- Who funds North Bay Jobs With Justice ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds Got Green ↗
- Who funds Youth Rise Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES ↗
- Who funds New York Taxi Workers Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Philly Black Worker Project ↗
- Who funds Workers Center For Racial Just NFP ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WORKERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Indian Peoples Action ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Common Counsel Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · Solidago Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Hill-Snowdon Foundation · Solidaire Network 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 Abelard Foundation Inc 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.
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- Brazilian Worker Center Inc — 6% 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.