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The Amelia 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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$208kFood & Nutrition$138kAnimals$63kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kHealth$49kHuman Services$46kHousing & Shelter$45kInternational$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPEN TABLE$10,000
PROJECT BREAD$10,000
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$10,000
SCENIC HUDSON$7,000
PASADENA HUMANE$6,700
CALIFORNIA COMM FDTN-WILDFIRE RECOVERY FD$6,700
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPT FOUNDATION$6,700
EARTHJUSTICE$5,000
BAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE$5,000
A BETTER CHANCE OF ANDOVER$5,000
HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER$5,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$5,000
CLEAN WATER FUND$5,000
TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIG CAT RESCUE: $8k → 13%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%LONG ISLAND CARES: $2k → 7%BIG CAT RESCUE: $5k → 13%STOW FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 8%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION: $5k → 17%BIG CAT RESCUE: $5k → 13%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $5k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $5k → 17%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION: $4k → 17%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 16%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3k → 14%THE GREG HILL FOUNDATION: $12k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
NY
MA
CT
CA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Amelia Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 24%.

The Amelia Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$451k · 28 repeat orgs$298k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
49

Total granted

$451k
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+13%

Still filing today

93%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthFood & NutritionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +112%
  • GL
    GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +66%
  • MAUI FOOD BANK INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • PINE STREET INN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +36%
  • HC
    HAWAII COMMUNITY FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • GH
    GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
8
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
9
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
10
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Los Angeles River; the most unlike its peers is Dignity in Asylum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 87 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
38/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPEN TABLE: $19,000 · OtherOPEN TABLEIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherGAINING GROUND INC: $14,000 · OtherHAWAII COMMUNITY FUND: $12,500 · OtherCoalition to Stop Gun Violence: $10,500 · OtherNC DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $10,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $12,700 · Other+33 more: $144,700 · Other+33 moreHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $47,800 · EnvironmentHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWA…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $23,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCYScenic Hudson Inc: $19,000 · EnvironmentScenic Hudson IncNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,200 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE …CLEAN WATER FUND: $10,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUNDEARTHJUSTICE: $10,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICETRUSTEES FOR ALASKA: $10,000 · EnvironmentTRUSTEES FOR ALASKAOCEANA INC: $8,000 · Environment+5 more: $14,000 · Environment+5 moreWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S REFUG…BIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $18,000 · Human ServicesBIG CAT RESCU…PINE STREET INN INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET I…GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesGREG HILL FOU…THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT …Stow Food Pantry Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesStow Food Pan…HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR …+2 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $19,500 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOV…MAUI FOOD BANK INC: $19,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD…OPEN TABLE INC: $10,350 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABL…PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT B…REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL …CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 · PhilanthropyCONCORD C…ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $9,000 · PhilanthropyARTISTS F…COPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOPS FOR …RIFLES TO RODS INC: $18,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $12,000 · HealthMighty Moose Foundation Inc: $6,000 · HealthHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · HealthOPERATION SURF: $1,500 · HealthPASADENA HUMANE: $11,700 · AnimalsTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $2,500 · AnimalsWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $2,500 · AnimalsSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PIT BULL RESCUE: $2,500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 · Animals
Other$293,400Environment$178,000Human Services$86,500Food & Nutrition$64,850Philanthropy$60,000Health$42,500Animals$24,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $47,800 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRIFLES TO RODS INC: $18,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $12,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE: $11,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition to Stop Gun Violence: $10,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC: $10,350 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES FOR ALASKA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY IN ASYLUM INC: $8,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMighty Moose Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStow Food Pantry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PROJECT 351 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILY NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA WALK ON WATER INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…PatagoniaorgCitizens Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Moran Family Charitab…The Jaket FoundationMiddlesex Savings Cha…Community Foundation …Pledgeling FoundationAmerican Tower Corpor…Analog Devices Founda…
Boston Foundation IncMA20.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Moran Family Charitable Fdn-Ima · The Jaket Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Pledgeling Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Amelia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Amelia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Amelia Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Amelia Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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