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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.
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 $10k18 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Amelia Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 24% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- CCCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +112%
- GLGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC5× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +66%
- SHScenic Hudson Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +25%
Funded once
PINE STREET INN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +36%- HCHAWAII COMMUNITY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $13k
- GHGREG HILL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -11%
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
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,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
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;…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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…
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
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…
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…
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…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Los Angeles River and 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.
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 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 87 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 HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CAT RESCUE CORP ↗
- Who funds RIFLES TO RODS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds Coalition to Stop Gun Violence ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY IN ASYLUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK 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.
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
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 Amelia 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.
- 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
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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