· Private foundation
The Ahrens Family Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEARBY NATURE | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| WILLAMETTE FAMILY INC | $10,000 |
| FOOD FOR LANE CO | $10,000 |
| LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICE | $10,000 |
| HOPE & SAFETY ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| CASCADE RAPTOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| MCKENSIE RIVER TRUST | $10,000 |
| LANE COUNTY SCHOOL GARDEN PROJECT | $10,000 |
| SHELTER CARE | $10,000 |
| LOUISVILLE NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| KY ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $6,500 |
| RAPTOR REHAB OF KENTUCIANA | $5,000 |
| DARE TO CARE FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION - NEXT STEP | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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 +46% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WFWILLAMETTE FAMILY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +71%
- WWOMENSPACE6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +28%
- LGLOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- MPMOUNT PISGAH ARBORETUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +190%
- GCGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -16%
- BBBECKHAM BIRD CLUB INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -3%
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
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.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The mission of the center for natural lands management is (a) to conserve native species, their habitat and functioning ecosystems in perpetuity, (b) to own and/or manage lands in an ecologically beneficial manner consistent with local,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 21ST Century Parks Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peregrine Fund Inc. 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 48 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) — 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 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.
32 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. 32 of the 52 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 SHELTERCARE ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENSPACE ↗
- Who funds LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEARBY NATURE ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OREGON ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds THE FALLS OF THE OHIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of Lane County · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Lane Community Health Council · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Ford Family Foundation · The Haugland Family Foundation Fka Rosaria P Haugland Foundation · R & M Clark Family Foundation · Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund 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 Ahrens Family Foundation 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.
- Womenspace — 62% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Looking Glass Community Services — 18% of income from government
- Sheltercare — 18% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- Willamette Family Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mount Pisgah Arboretum — 2% 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.