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The Aufmuth Family 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.

$178k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$320kEnvironment$189kEducation$163kCivil Rights$111kInternational$80kFood & Nutrition$79kCrime & Legal$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $85k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMAN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSISTA$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION$10,000
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE$10,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$10,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC$10,000
TREVOR PROJECT$7,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ILLINOIS$5,000
RAPE ABUSE INCEST NATIONAL NETWORK$5,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FU$5,000
TRANSLIFELINE$5,000
BRING CHANGE TO MIND$5,000
MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IAVA: $1k → 17%IAVA: $1k → 17%IAVA: $1k → 17%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%IAVA: $1k → 17%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $500 → 10%POWER TO DECIDE: $2k → 14%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 8%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

NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
MD
DC
HI
GA

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 70 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
39

Total granted

$1.0M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-6%

Still filing today

70%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • SC
    Sustainable Conservation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +104%
  • MA
    MISSION ASSET FUND
    8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +71%
  • CA
    CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • NA
    NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -33%
  • F
    FAIRVOTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +52%

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
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
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

—
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
11
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
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Palo Alto Library. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Environmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Food PantriesPublic Library OperationsCommunity FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringCancer Support Services
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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%40%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%59%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/81
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,897

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

79 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. 79 of the 113 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
48/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSSETTS EYE AND EAR — $100,000 · OtherMASSACHUSSETTS EYE AND EARWOMAN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSISTA — $70,000 · OtherWOMAN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSISTAFOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE — $30,000 · OtherTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $40,000 · OtherTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INCMISSION ASSET FUND — $45,000 · OtherMISSION ASSET FUNDSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE — $30,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $25,000 · Other+67 more — $321,846 · Other+67 moreSustainable Conservation — $60,000 · EnvironmentSustainable Con…CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $45,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK …TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $30,000 · EnvironmentTRUCKEE DONNER …FRESH ENERGY — $29,000 · EnvironmentFRESH ENERGYLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $7,500 · Environment+3 more — $7,500 · EnvironmentTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $103,416 · EducationTHE BOARD OF …WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $45,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRE…READING PARTNERS — $5,548 · Education+3 more — $6,000 · EducationRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) — $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $20,000 · HealthThe Kids Mental Health Foundation — $10,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $10,000 · HealthBRING CHANGE 2 MIND — $10,000 · HealthVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $7,500 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $5,000 · HealthTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline — $5,000 · HealthWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $42,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $14,000 · International+4 more — $8,500 · InternationalTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $35,000 · PhilanthropyEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION — $12,500 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyINTER-NATION CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $20,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $15,000 · Civil RightsFAIRVOTE — $10,000 · Civil RightsMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION — $10,000 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$661,846Environment$179,000Education$159,964Health$97,500International$84,500Philanthropy$60,500Civil Rights$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $103,416 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Conservation — $60,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION ASSET FUND — $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH ENERGY — $29,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc — $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRVOTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kids Mental Health Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GELT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $5,548 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTTAGEWOOD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 1.1% 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.

ImpactassetsincThe San Francisco Fou…Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…California Community …Marin Community Found…Community Foundation …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Tomkat Ranch Educatio…The William & Flora H…Jewish Community Fede…East Bay Community Fo…
ImpactassetsincMD17.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay 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 Aufmuth Family 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 113 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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