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The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc
The american amusement machine charitable foundation sponsors fundraising events throughout the year with a portion of the proceeds being contributed to worthwhile children's charities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $365,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $381,297 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,297 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNRISE ASSOCIATION | $215,000 |
| KEEN USA | $60,000 |
| ANNE AND ROBERT H LAURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $60,000 |
| HUGS | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SDSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $295k · revenue +6%
- CMCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK5× · 2017–2021 · $90k · revenue +31%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +9%
- CHCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2020–2021 · $25k
- RORIBBON OF HOPE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED3× · 2019–2021 · $14k · revenue +6%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The NCHRI directly supports the NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ("NCH") mission to provide hope through advanced care for our children and families. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)
To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Koiula. 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 43 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 30 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 SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Koiula ↗
- Who funds RIBBON OF HOPE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds VERONA RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 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: Baird Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 American Amusement Machine Charitable 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% 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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