· Private foundation
The Afognak Fund
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.
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
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $801k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Seacology | $132,575 |
| Yellowstone Forever | $125,000 |
| Blessings in a Backpack | $125,000 |
| Remote Area Medical | $105,000 |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $100,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $100,000 |
| NourishMKE Inc | $85,000 |
| Acts Community Development Corp (dba Acts Housing) | $60,000 |
| Climb | $60,000 |
| Community Musicworks | $50,000 |
| Buzzards Bay Coalition Inc | $50,000 |
| Room To Read | $50,000 |
| National Audubon Society | $50,000 |
| Reach Out and Read Inc | $50,000 |
| Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras | $50,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +14% since the first grant, against -76% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- BIBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $325k · revenue +69% · 30% of their budget
- RAREMOTE AREA MEDICAL3× · 2023–2025 · $315k · revenue +109%
- YFYELLOWSTONE FOREVER3× · 2023–2025 · $310k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- FCFriends Community Ministriesone grant, 2024 · $60k
- ACACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2022 · $60k
- BYBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORECHESTRAone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Antonio Philharmonic. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 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.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 110 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 SEACOLOGY ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds NourishMKE Inc ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds TAILORED FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
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 Afognak 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Neighborhood Developers Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% 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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