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The Aspen Grove 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| HEROES AND HORSES INC | $10,000 |
| THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA | $10,000 |
| NORWEGIAN FJORD HORSE RESCUE NETWORK | $7,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $7,000 |
| ANIMAL ALLIANCE INC | $7,000 |
| ALL 4 PAWS RESCUE | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID INC | $5,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICAS FUND | $4,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $3,750 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $2,500 |
| LORDS PLACE INC | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE | $2,500 |
| FLEET OF ANGELS INC | $2,500 |
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, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Aspen Grove 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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- AAANIMAL ALLIANCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +42%
- TDTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +134%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC3× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +21%
Funded once
Mud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Corporationone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%- NJNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -43%
- HAHANDS ACROSS THE SEA INCone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -47%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
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…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe in Hunterdon and the most unlike its peers is The Lullaby House. 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 36 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
78 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. 78 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 ANIMAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Mud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds ALL 4 PAWS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds SAFE IN HUNTERDON ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY RUN FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds UTILITY EMERGENCY SERVICES FUND ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds WILD AFRICA ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Hunterdon County Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Region Land Trust ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT CITY CORPS ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER 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: The William Penn Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Verizon Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Aspen Grove 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.
- Safe in Hunterdon — 51% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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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