· Public charity
The American Foundation for Charitable Support Inc
The mission is to promote and facilitate the privatization of philanthropy, and help charities become more effective and successful.1.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 39 grants below total $875,733 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,107,190 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $231,457 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $287k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
- $250k+1 grant · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILLENNIAL FARMS | $264,335 |
| AUGSBURG COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS | $84,863 |
| YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COU | $48,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY - PR | $29,385 |
| HOSPITAL OF UNIVERSITY OF PEN | $28,042 |
| Stephen Silier Tunnels to Tow | $18,873 |
| TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $18,000 |
| St Jude Childrens Research H | $16,750 |
| UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAH | $15,000 |
| KIDS CHANCE OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $15,000 |
| AND THEN THERE WERE NONE | $12,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $10,873 |
| GENOA AREA LOCAL SCHOOLS SCHO | $10,130 |
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, $472k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 15 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- AUAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +17%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES6× · 2020–2025 · $288k · revenue +166%
- HCHALE CENTRE THEATRE5× · 2020–2024 · $129k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- CLChild Liberation Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $61k · revenue ×13
- IHINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $28k · revenue 0%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT GOTHICone grant, 2023 · $24k · revenue +13%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multicare Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Millennial Farms Foundation 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 41 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 66 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 AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIAL FARMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds HALE CENTRE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds Child Liberation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GENOA AREA LOCAL SCHOOLS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NELSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds TONY FINAU FOUNDATION FKA FINAU YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Granite Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT GOTHIC ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds OLYMPUS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERATE ALL VALUE ALL 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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Wheeler Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Community Trust of Utah · The Pi Foundation Inc · Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation · Legacy Global Foundation · University Impact · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Arizona Community 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 American Foundation for Charitable Support 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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