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The Auen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$2.0MHuman Services$935kArts & Culture$841kEducation$421kAnimals$133kPhilanthropy$80kRecreation & Sports$70kScience & Tech$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $770k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower$50,000
Eisenhower Medical Center$50,000
Alzheimers Coachella Valley$50,000
The Palm Springs International Film Society$50,000
Rancho Mirage Writer's Festival$35,000
DAP Health$30,000
Alzheimers Coachella Valley$30,000
The Ranch Recovery Centers Inc$30,000
Joslyn Senior Center$30,000
Read With Me Volunteer Programs$30,000
Coronado Island Film Festival$25,000
Desert Arc$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
AIDS Assistance Program$25,000
Coronado Hospital Foundation$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $482k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Unforgettables Foundation: $20k → 14%The Unforgettables Foundation: $10k → 14%The Unforgettables Foundation: $8k → 14%Jewish Family Service of the Desert: $30k → 11%Braille Institute of America Inc: $25k → 14%Braille Institute of America Inc: $25k → 14%Braille Institute of America Inc: $10k → 14%Noah Homes Inc: $15k → 11%Elderhelp: $25k → 11%Jewish Family Service of the Desert: $20k → 11%Elderhelp: $25k → 11%Jewish Family Service of the Desert: $5k → 11%Elderhelp: $15k → 11%Operation Safehouse Inc: $25k → 11%Operation Safehouse Inc: $20k → 11%Elderhelp: $15k → 11%Operation Safe House Inc: $5k → 11%Operation Safe House Inc: $3k → 11%Operation Safe House Inc: $1k → 11%Angel View Inc: $20k → 11%Angel View Inc: $5k → 11%American Red Cross: $25k → 11%Martha's Village & Kitchen: $10k → 11%Joslyn Senior Center: $30k → 11%Joslyn Senior Center: $25k → 11%Joslyn Senior Center: $25k → 11%Joslyn Senior Center: $20k → 11%Joslyn Senior Center: $5k → 11%Joslyn Senior Center: $5k → 11%Braille Institute of America Inc: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
WA
ID
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
TN

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 58 repeat orgs$581k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
31

Total granted

$4.2M
$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+46%

Still filing today

86%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • CH
    Coronado Hospital Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +75%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    3× · 2020–2024 · $198k · revenue +66%
  • PS
    PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +199%

Funded once

  • US
    USC - School of Dramatic Arts
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • SJ
    St Jude Children's Research Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Palm Springs Opera Guild of the Desert

The Palm Springs Opera Guild invites everyone in the Coachella Valley and beyond to join the Guild family and participate in its numerous programs.The Guild was established in 1968 to support and promote the operatic arts through outreach,…

Arts & Culture
2
Hospice of the Valleys Sc Inc

We foster reverence for life, relief of suffering, and compassion in loss for the terminally ill residents and their families in the communities we serve.

Human Services
3
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…

Community Improvement
4
The Desert Sanctuary Inc

To provide shelter and counseling for victims of domestic violence in the Barstow area.

Human Services
5
California Desert Arts Council Llc
Arts & Culture
6
Friends of the Palm SpringsAnimal Shelter

We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.

Animals
7
Coachella Valley Chapter of the Community Associations Institute

The coachella valley chapter of the community associations institute ("cai - cv") serves the educational, business and networking needs of community associations in the coachella valley region of southern california.

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8
Canyon Theatre Guild

Nonprofit community theatre

Arts & Culture
9
Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation

The mission of the coachella valley journalism foundation is to promote and support excellent, sustainable community journalism in the coachella valley.

Arts & Culture
10
Desert Art Center Inc

To stimulate, educate, and nurture creativity in the coachella valley community through the collaborative effort of membership programs, art education, and gallery space for emerging and established artists.

Arts & Culture
11
Friends of the Desert Mountains

The mission of the friends of the desert mountains is to preserve land, to support education, conservation and research in the coachella valley, and to act as the support organization for the santa rosa & san jacinto mountains national…

Animals
12
San Bernardino Valley Concert Association
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elderhelp of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Coronado Island Film Festival. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Museums and Nature CentersCommunity Arts & EnrichmentRegional Business ChambersFoster Care and Child Welfa…Animal Rescue and AdoptionBiomedical Research & Innov…Educational Institution Sup…Community Health Care Provi…Disability Services & Resid…Youth and Family Support Se…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr9%34%35–55yr12%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr9%41%35–55yr12%15%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/77
the rest of the field
16%
4,884/30,034

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.

04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 99 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/74
Grantees still filing
60/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Coronado Hospital Foundation — $350,000 · HealthCoronado Hospital FoundationEisenhower Medical Center — $198,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical CenterAIDS Assistance Program — $160,000 · HealthAIDS Assistance ProgramALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY — $140,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEYThe Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower — $130,000 · HealthThe Barbara Sinatra Children's Cen…DAP Health Inc — $130,000 · HealthDAP Health IncST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $118,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT…ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS — $87,000 · HealthACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS+6 more — $144,000 · Health+6 moreTHE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INC — $130,000 · OtherTHE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INCUSC - Davis School of Gerontology — $110,000 · OtherUSC - Davis School of GerontologyUSC - School of Dramatic Arts — $100,000 · OtherUSC - School of Dramatic ArtsSharp HospiceCare Fund — $85,000 · OtherSharp HospiceCare FundTHE DESERT SYMPHONY INC — $75,000 · OtherCOACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY — $70,000 · OtherPacific Heart Lung & Blood Institute PHLBI — $65,000 · OtherDESERT ARC — $60,340 · OtherCOACHELLA VALLEY SYMPHONY — $60,000 · OtherGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT — $55,000 · OtherThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $65,000 · Other+37 more — $662,500 · Other+37 moreTHE WELL IN THE DESERT INC — $120,000 · Human ServicesTHE WELL IN THE D…Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center — $110,000 · Human ServicesCove Communities …MAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 — $95,000 · Human ServicesMAMA'S HOUSE MINI…ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $80,000 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN …BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesBRAILLE INSTITUTE…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT — $55,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SER…OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC — $54,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SAFE HO…NOAH HOMES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesNOAH HOMES INCTHE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION — $37,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 · Human ServicesAngel View Inc — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $30,000 · Human ServicesRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL — $95,000 · EducationRANCHO MIR…Read With Me Volunteer Programs — $90,000 · EducationRead With …TOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC — $85,000 · EducationTOOLS FOR …College of the Desert Foundation — $50,000 · EducationCollege of…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationRUTGERS UN…Parkinson's Resource Organization Inc — $25,000 · EducationParkinson'…Palm Springs Cultural Center — $22,500 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureCoronado Promenade Concerts — $48,000 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC — $40,000 · Arts & CulturePALM CANYON THEATER — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNDATION OF PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $36,200 · Arts & CultureCORONADO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL — $25,000 · Arts & CultureInternational Classical Concerts of the Desert — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Cultural Center Inc — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $17,000 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsIDITAROD TRAIL COMMITTEE — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $80,000 · PhilanthropyMY JUMP INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyLOVING ALL ANIMALS INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Health$1,457,000Other$1,537,840Human Services$741,500Education$427,500Arts & Culture$321,200Recreation & Sports$175,000Philanthropy$145,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCoronado Hospital Foundation — $350,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $198,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS Assistance Program — $160,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY — $150,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY — $140,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetThe Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower — $130,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetDAP Health Inc — $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INC — $130,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WELL IN THE DESERT INC — $120,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $118,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center — $110,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL — $95,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 — $95,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetRead With Me Volunteer Programs — $90,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS — $87,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetTOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC — $85,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC — $80,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $80,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE DESERT SYMPHONY INC — $75,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY — $70,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT ARC — $60,340 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY SYMPHONY — $60,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetMY JUMP INC — $60,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT — $55,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT — $55,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC — $54,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCollege of the Desert Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoronado Promenade Concerts — $48,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetCoachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine — $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMIZELL CENTER — $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPARADE CHARITIES CORPORATION — $45,000 over 3y, 81% of budgetDESERT CANCER FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPALM CANYON THEATER — $40,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $36,200 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPalm Springs International Piano Competition — $30,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetCORONADO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL — $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetParkinson's Resource Organization Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDogs For Our Brave Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetIDITAROD TRAIL COMMITTEE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

HN and Frances C Berg…Bighorn Golf Club Cha…Inland Empire Communi…The Grace Helen Spear…Houston Family Founda…Anderson Childrens Fo…The Coeta and Donald …Regional Access Proje…Charity WorksThe Champions Volunte…The Galen Family Foun…Desert Community Foun…
HN and Frances C Berger FoundationCA77.7× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · Charity Works · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · The Galen Family Foundation · Desert 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 Auen 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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