· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEARBY NATURE | $10,000 |
| WILLAMETTE FAMILY INC | $10,000 |
| FOOD FOR LANE CO | $10,000 |
| LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICE | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| LANE COUNTY SCHOOL GARDEN PROJECT | $10,000 |
| SHELTER CARE | $10,000 |
| HOPE & SAFETY ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| CASCADE RAPTOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| LOUISVILLE NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| MCKENSIE RIVER TRUST | $10,000 |
| KY ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $6,500 |
| DARE TO CARE FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| RAPTOR REHAB OF KENTUCIANA | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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 +46% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWILLAMETTE FAMILY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +71%
- LGLOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +134%
- WWOMENSPACE6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +28%
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%
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 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,…
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 WILLAMETTE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERCARE ↗
- Who funds LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WOMENSPACE ↗
- Who funds NEARBY NATURE ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SIGN 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 THE FALLS OF THE OHIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ahrens Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ahrens Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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