· Private foundation
The Aigner Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FUND SEED MONEY | $25,000 |
| REFUGE FOR WOMEN | $15,600 |
| CONCORDIA PLACE | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $7,628 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS | $5,000 |
| MOSAIC NATIONAL SUPPORTS | $2,000 |
| BETSY'S BLANKETS | $1,500 |
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, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +94%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC6× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +70%
- BBBETSY'S BLANKETS5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +134% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- ELEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHRUCH IN AMERICAone grant, 2024 · $35k
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +27%
- VEVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONSone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -24%
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.
Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.
Lutheran services in america mission: cultivate caring communities that advance health and opportunity for all by building valuable connections, amplifying our voices and empowering our members in their mission to answer god's call to love…
To provide research and technical assistance in the fields of intellectual and developmental disabilities, population health, substance use and prevention, mental health and child and family services.
We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
We provide effective employment services to individuals recently released from incarceration.
Easterseals hawaii (esh) is creating a more equitable world so people with developmental disabilities can choose their path. we do this by reimagining how care and support can be better connected to fill gaps in human services across an…
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.
The hope learning academy serves children with intellectual/developmental disabilities and neurological disorders and their families by providing homes in which to grow, schools in which to learn, clinics in which to become healthier,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Betsy's Blankets. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 32 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 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds BETSY'S BLANKETS ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 214 EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds FUTURE TIES INC NFP ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC ↗
- Who funds SOSA - SAFE FROM ONLINE SEX ABUSE INC ↗
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.
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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 Aigner 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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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