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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.

$381k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$215k
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 2024.

Human Services$295kHealth$277kYouth Development$199kPhilanthropy$61kEducation$41kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kEnvironment$21kArts & Culture$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $365,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $381,297 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,297 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
$60,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$765k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $215k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $30k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 6%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
AZ
DC
HI
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$725k · 15 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
13

Total granted

$725k
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+53%

Still filing today

93%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SD
    SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $295k · revenue +6%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
    5× · 2017–2021 · $90k · revenue +31%
  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • CH
    CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k
  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    3× · 2019–2021 · $14k · revenue +117%
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.

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Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
4
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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5
Cook Children's Medical Center

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.

Health
6
All Children's Research Institute Inc

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…

Health
7
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
8
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

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)

Education
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
Miami Children's Hospital Research Institute Inc

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)

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11
Rush Copley Medical Center

To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
12
City of Hope

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 30 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)
28/28
Grantees still filing
25/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $295,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Cons…KIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW: $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS ENJOY EXERCISE …+2 more: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $90,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE …CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherCANISIUS HIGH SCHOO…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $12,730 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDAT…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $10,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOU…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION: $7,000 · OtherALLEN DUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Other+3 more: $9,500 · Other+3 moreAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $75,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lur…CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH …THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLIN…American Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Ass…MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $8,750 · HealthMINNEAPOLIS HEART …THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $6,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyRIBBON OF HOPE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $14,000 · PhilanthropyKoiula: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · EducationRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $12,500 · EducationWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC: $500 · Science & Tech
Human Services$320,000Youth Development$172,000Other$160,230Health$152,750Philanthropy$69,000Education$48,500Recreation & Sports$20,000Science & Tech$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $295,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetKIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW: $165,000 over 9y, 55% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKoiula: $20,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRIBBON OF HOPE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $14,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $12,730 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWEST ESSEX FIRST AID SQUAD INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERONA RESCUE SQUAD INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC: $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.

Baird Foundation IncThe Ayco Charitable F…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Baird Foundation IncWI14× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Florida Oceanographic Society Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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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 30 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $267k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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