How much did The Afognak Fund grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of The Afognak Fund’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

—

2021

—

2022

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2023

milwaukeemuseumconservancywildlifeholeartsread

2024

museummilwaukeeartsgreater bostonorchestrasholeeducation

2025

artsmilwaukeeconservancyeducationgreater bostonactshole

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 50 grants

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

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
Climb$60,000
Acts Community Development Corp (dba Acts Housing)$60,000
Little Traverse Conservancy$50,000
Reach Out and Read Inc$50,000
Buzzards Bay Coalition Inc$50,000
Room To Read$50,000
National Audubon Society$50,000
Community Musicworks$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$14M · 48 repeat orgs$465k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%

+137%

Still filing today

75%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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

BI
Blessings in a Backpack
3× · 2023–2025 · $325k · revenue +193% · 30% of their budget
RA
Remote Area Medical
3× · 2023–2025 · $315k · revenue +184%
YF
Yellowstone Forever
3× · 2023–2025 · $310k · revenue +164%

Funded once

FC
Friends Community Ministries
one grant, 2024 · $60k
AB
American Bird Conservacy
one grant, 2024 · $25k
WR
Watupap Rowing Center Inc
one grant, 2024 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment

Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc

Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

See schedule o for statement. a vital cultural center, educational institution, an expanding network of ideas, the museum of wisconsin art collects and interprets american art through the lens of a single state.

Arts & Culture

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals

The Whaling Museum Society Inc

The Museum engages the community in exploring the diversity of our whaling heritage and its impacts to enrich and inform our lives.

Arts & Culture

Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Inc

Expanding the masterworks series of classical performances, preserving and enhancing concerts on the square, developing music appreciation in children at an early age, enhancing community celebrations and holidays with orchestral…

Arts & Culture

Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture

Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop a diverse 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.

Environment

Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity in all children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture

The Maritime Aquarium At Norwalk Inc

Arts & Culture

City Wildlife Inc

Protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat.

Education

Radio Milwaukee Inc

Through music and stories created for a culturally open- minded community, radio milwaukee, inc. is a catalyst for creating a better, more inclusive, and engaged milwaukee.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seward Association for the Advancement and the most unlike its peers is Room to Read. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/45

the rest of the field

10,118/120,715

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.

05the grantee network

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

40/45

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$11,387,986Environment$785,000Arts & Culture$715,425Education$452,500International$450,000Youth Development$350,000Food & Nutrition$265,000

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ge Foundation · Weiss Family Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Windhover Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Blessings in a Backpack.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 262627847 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Blessings in a Backpack, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 30% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Afognak Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Afognak Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Afognak Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Afognak Fund?

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The Afognak Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Afognak Fund?

More from the funding graph