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The Carol A Ammon Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Carol A Ammon Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17M
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$14M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

73% of The Carol A Ammon Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Carol A Ammon Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $17M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
5
’18
4
’19
4
’20
5
’21
1
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$22MHealth$5.3MPhilanthropy$4.5MHousing & Shelter$706kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
  • $250k+4 grants · $16M
$450,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$14,200,000
Thomas Jefferson University$1,200,000
Massachusetts General Hospital$575,000
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund$450,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
St John's University$100,000
REACH Riverside Development Corporation$100,000
Notre Dame of Maryland University$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 39% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $14.2M → 10%Massachusetts General Hospital: $575k → 16%Thomas Jefferson University: $1.2M → 22%Eisenhower Medical Center: $100k → 11%St John's University: $100k → 13%NYU LANGONE HEALTH CO OFFICE OF DEVELOP: $1.4M → 17%Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation: $125k → 9%AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $2.8M → 13%Notre Dame of Maryland University: $10k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $300k → 10%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $575k → 16%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $500k → 22%Eisenhower Medical Center: $60k → 11%NYU Langone Heath: $200k → 17%Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation: $125k → 9%AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $250k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $300k → 10%Massachusetts General Hospital: $575k → 16%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $250k → 22%Eisenhower Medical Center: $50k → 11%NYU Langone Heath: $200k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $200k → 10%Massachusetts General Hospital: $575k → 16%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $250k → 22%Eisenhower Medical Center: $50k → 11%REACH RIVERSIDE: $506k → 10%Massachusetts General Hospital: $575k → 16%REACH Riverside Development Corporation: $100k → 10%Massachusetts General Hospital: $575k → 16%REACH Riverside Development Corporation: $100k → 10%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

NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
MD
DE
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 9 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$27M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+15%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $15M · revenue +29%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +164%
  • TC
    THE CCSU FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $960k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH CO OFFICE OF DEVELOP
    one grant, 2022 · $1.4M
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +15%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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2
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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6
The Rockefeller University

The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
12
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $15,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARECENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,624,817 · OtherCENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITYMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $3,450,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALNYU LANGONE HEALTH CO OFFICE OF DEVELOP: $1,371,392 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTH CO OFFICE OF DEVELOP+2 more: $410,000 · OtherAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $3,028,697 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWM…GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $1,430,000 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISE…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $2,200,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFF…THE CCSU FOUNDATION INC: $960,000 · EducationTHE CCSU FO…+2 more: $110,000 · EducationREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $705,703 · Housing & ShelterEisenhower Medical Center: $260,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Health
Other$23,856,209Philanthropy$4,458,697Education$3,270,000Housing & Shelter$705,703Health$510,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $15,000,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $3,028,697 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $2,200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $1,430,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CCSU FOUNDATION INC: $960,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $705,703 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $260,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carol A Ammon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carol A Ammon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Reach Riverside Development Corp: 100% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Ccsu Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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.

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 15 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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