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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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$10k
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.

Animals$138kInternational$83kHuman Services$67kEnvironment$61kHousing & Shelter$53kArts & Culture$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kReligion$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$2,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$796k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $2k → 12%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $10k → 10%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $11k → 10%ALL 4 PAWS RESCUE: $6k → 6%VOGEL ALCOVE: $1k → 14%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 23%FAMILY PROMISE OF HUNTERDON COUNTY INC: $5k → 4%FATHERS UPLIFT INC: $3k → 16%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $5k → 10%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $10k → 10%ALL 4 PAWS RESCUE: $4k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $4k → 22%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 23%SAFE IN HUNTERDON INC: $3k → 4%FATHERS UPLIFT INC: $3k → 16%PROJECT HOME: $4k → 22%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $9k → 23%SAFE IN HUNTERDON INC: $3k → 4%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%SAFE IN HUNTERDON INC: $3k → 4%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%SAFE IN HUNTERDON INC: $1k → 4%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500 → 17%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

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WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
DC
LA
MS
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Aspen Grove Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Aspen Grove Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$464k · 39 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
43

Total granted

$464k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+13%

Still filing today

85%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
EnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • AA
    ANIMAL ALLIANCE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +42%
  • TD
    THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +183%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • Mud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Corporation
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -43%
  • HA
    HANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -47%
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
5
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
7
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
8
World Resources Institute

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…

International
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe in Hunterdon; 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.
05the grantee network

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/78
Grantees still filing
44/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRYN ATHYN CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM: $32,000 · OtherBRYN ATHYN CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSAL…NORWEGIAN FJORD HORSE RESCUE NETWORK: $26,000 · OtherNORWEGIAN FJORD HORSE RESCUE NETWORKMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT: $13,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - D…THE LORD'S PLACE INC: $14,500 · OtherTHE LORD'S PLACE INCPhilabundance: $14,050 · OtherPhilabundanceMud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Corporation: $10,000 · OtherMud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Co…ROCKY RUN FIRE COMPANY: $6,500 · Other+27 more: $68,200 · Other+27 moreANIMAL ALLIANCE INC: $53,000 · AnimalsANIMAL ALLIANCE IN…THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $30,500 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRIC…WILD AFRICA: $5,000 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Conservancy: $3,750 · Animals+2 more: $3,500 · AnimalsHEROES AND HORSES INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesHEROES AND HORSES…SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $14,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD TO OP…ALL 4 PAWS RESCUE: $10,000 · Human ServicesALL 4 PAWS RESCUESAFE IN HUNTERDON: $9,500 · Human ServicesSAFE IN HUNTERDONPROJECT HOME: $9,250 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMEFamily Promise of Hunterdon County Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of…FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPLIFT IN…+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $23,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KIT…International Rescue Committee INC: $23,500 · InternationalInternational Res…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRO…DIRECT RELIEF: $8,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFMercy Corps: $5,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAS…+5 more: $8,500 · International+5 moreSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $19,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RES…NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EnvironmentNEW JERSEY …CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $5,500 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR T…Natural Lands Trust Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentNatural Lan…Boothbay Region Land Trust: $4,500 · EnvironmentBoothbay Re…+7 more: $7,500 · Environment+7 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $9,500 · HealthHANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC: $8,000 · HealthGOOD GRIEF INC: $2,500 · Health+3 more: $3,000 · HealthBOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE: $18,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INC: $2,250 · Arts & CultureGUSTAV STICKLEY HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$184,250Animals$95,750Human Services$91,750International$87,500Environment$60,500Health$33,000Arts & Culture$26,250

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 budgetANIMAL ALLIANCE INC: $53,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetHEROES AND HORSES INC: $36,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $30,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE: $18,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $14,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetALL 4 PAWS RESCUE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE IN HUNTERDON: $9,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $9,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetROCKY RUN FIRE COMPANY: $6,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUTILITY EMERGENCY SERVICES FUND: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILD AFRICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Promise of Hunterdon County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMercy Corps: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoothbay Region Land Trust: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCRESCENT CITY CORPS: $4,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICING EQUITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lullaby House: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHEN WE ALL VOTE: $2,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD GRIEF INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLEET OF ANGELS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $2,400 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.

The William Penn Foun…Princeton Area Commun…The Robert Wood Johns…The Philadelphia Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…The Pew Charitable Tr…Chubb Charitable Foun…Maine Community Found…Vanguard Charitable E…Community Foundation …Verizon FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…
The William Penn FoundationPA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Aspen Grove Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aspen Grove Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Aspen Grove Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Aspen Grove Foundation 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 87 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-PF 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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