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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$264k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.0MReligion$1.3MFood & Nutrition$374kHuman Services$355kHealth$269kArts & Culture$193kPhilanthropy$143kInternational$116kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $875,733, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,107,190 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $231,457 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $287k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
  • $250k+1 grant · $264k
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAH$15,000
KIDS CHANCE OF SOUTH DAKOTA$15,000
UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY$15,000
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE$12,000
Wounded Warrior Project$10,873
GENOA AREA LOCAL SCHOOLS SCHO$10,130
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RAINBOW ACRES: $11k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $11k → 16%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COU: $48k → 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $8k → 16%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COU: $48k → 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $7k → 16%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COU: $48k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COU: $48k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COU: $48k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COU: $48k → 9%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $40k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $25k → 8%CHILD LIBERATION FOUNDATION: $61k → 8%RISE & BUILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $10k → 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

ME
WA
ND
MN
IL
NY
SD
OH
PA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
HI
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 31 repeat orgs$452k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
16

Total granted

$4.5M
$242k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+15%

Still filing today

71%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AU
    AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +17%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $288k · revenue +166%
  • HC
    HALE CENTRE THEATRE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $129k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • CL
    Child Liberation Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $61k · revenue ×13
  • IH
    INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $28k · revenue 0%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT GOTHIC
    one grant, 2023 · $24k · revenue +13%
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
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
5
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
10
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
11
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
12
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multicare Foundations; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 66 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
31/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $1,018,590 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $200,385 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $84,863 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHO: $77,000 · Other+28 more: $708,385 · Other+28 moreAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $1,285,000 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITYDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $49,505 · Education+7 more: $135,858 · Education+7 moreMILLENNIAL FARMS FOUNDATION INC: $364,335 · PhilanthropyMILLENNIAL …UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $125,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $288,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'…American Indian Services: $75,000 · Human ServicesAmerican I…Child Liberation Foundation Inc: $61,034 · Human ServicesChild Libe…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $26,323 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WA…+2 more: $21,361 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $49,505 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE: $45,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $33,900 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $30,000 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $28,293 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,623 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,623 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,600 · HealthHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $128,500 · Arts & CultureNELSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $49,505 · Arts & CultureVOICE OF THE TRUTH: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,200 · Arts & CultureHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $60,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $40,000 · InternationalLIGHTHOUSE SANCTUARY: $7,500 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $7,213 · International
Other$2,089,223Education$1,470,363Philanthropy$499,335Human Services$471,718Health$211,544Arts & Culture$190,205International$114,713

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 budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $1,285,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMILLENNIAL FARMS FOUNDATION INC: $364,335 over 2y, 100% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $288,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $128,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $125,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $66,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENOA AREA LOCAL SCHOOLS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $60,860 over 6y, 11% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $49,505 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $49,505 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNELSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $49,505 over 6y, 29% of budgetTONY FINAU FOUNDATION FKA FINAU YOUTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $34,543 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $33,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $32,161 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $29,685 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $28,293 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $28,042 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $26,323 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGranite Education Foundation: $24,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT GOTHIC: $23,865 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOLYMPUS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetLIBERATE ALL VALUE ALL INC: $17,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH PGA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRAINBOW ACRES: $11,361 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11,233 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRise and Rebuild Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $9,057 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,623 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,623 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE SANCTUARY: $7,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGilbert Christian Schools Inc: $7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICE OF THE TRUTH: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $6,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYAVAPAI COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,881 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHaystack Mountain School of Crafts: $5,757 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUET PARTNERS IN HEALTH & AGING INC: $5,333 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Wheeler FoundationBeesley Family Founda…Larry H Miller and Ga…Community Trust of Ut…The Pi Foundation IncClark and Christine I…Legacy Global Foundat…University ImpactThe Albertsons Compan…Arizona Community Fou…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report 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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Find your warmest path to The American Foundation for Charitable Support Inc 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 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home