· Public charity
The Aspen Institute Inc
We drive change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve society's greatest challenges.the aspen institute ignites human potential to build understanding and create new possibilities for a better world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 173 grants below total $25,554,608 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $36,475,484 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,920,876 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $947k
- $50k–250k78 grants · $8.3M
- $250k+33 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZERO EMISSION MARITIME BUYERS ALLIANCE | $2,461,282 |
| ITHAKA HARBORS INC | $1,444,394 |
| SOLIYA INC | $945,362 |
| WORLD LEARNING INC | $857,439 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $675,000 |
| COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE | $644,670 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | $637,110 |
| BOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC | $501,000 |
| ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC | $500,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC | $500,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC | $453,192 |
| EQUAL MEASURE | $393,000 |
| GLOBAL NOMADS GROUP INC | $392,535 |
| INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION | $391,958 |
| GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC | $372,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Grants abroad, by region — $9.9M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $9.8M to organizations and $74k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: ASPEN FORUM FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS · ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS · ASPEN GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SUPPORT
Stated purpose: ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS · ASPEN FORUM FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
Stated purpose: ASPEN FORUM FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS · ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS · GLOBAL IMPACT FUND AWARD
Stated purpose: ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS · ASPEN FORUM FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS · ASPEN GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SUPPORT
Stated purpose: VIRTUAL YOUTH EXCHANGE PROGRAMMING INITIATIVES · ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS · ASPEN FORUM FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
Stated purpose: ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS · ASPEN FORUM FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS · VIRTUAL YOUTH EXCHANGE PROGRAMMING INITIATIVES
Stated purpose: ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS · ASPEN GLOBAL INNOVATORS GROUP · HONORARIA
Stated purpose: ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS · MCNULTY FOUNDATION CATALYST FUND AWARD · ASPEN FORUM FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
169 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2024, 84 since wound down; 76 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.3M 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
- IHITHAKA HARBORS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +20%
- SISoliya Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +53% · 80% of their budget
- ZEZERO EMISSION MARITIME BUYERS ALLIANCE2× · 2023–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +41% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- AIAFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS INCone grant, 2023 · $764k · revenue -1%
- ACALAMO COLLEGES DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $600k
- CFCapital for Good USAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $556k · revenue +118%
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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(see schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latinos for Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 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 29 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 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
356 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 356 of the 482 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ITHAKA HARBORS INC ↗
- Who funds Soliya Inc ↗
- Who funds ZERO EMISSION MARITIME BUYERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL MEASURE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL NOMADS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRITERION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM DAVIDSON INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds POMONA IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds IEARN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds AFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds SINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jobs for the Future Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Gates Foundation · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · American Association of Community Colleges · Achieving the Dream Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Citi Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Mdrc
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 Institute 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.
- Youthbuild Global Inc — 69% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Education Northwest — 44% of income from government
- World Learning Inc — 39% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Garrett County Maryland Community Action Committee — 32% of income from government
- YouthBuild Newark Inc — 27% of income from government
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Social Finance Inc — 12% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baystate Medical Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon — 5% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Take Action Global Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.