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The Mac AIDS Fund

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12M
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$11,733,389
Largest grant, FY2020
$11,733,389
Organizations funded a year
1 to 258
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations The Mac AIDS Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEducationCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20201$12M100%
FY2019238$13M21%
FY2018258$9.1M23%
FY2017229$9.9Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$28MPhilanthropy$8.7MFood & Nutrition$3.3MInternational$2.6MHousing & Shelter$2.4MCivil Rights$1.3MEducation$1.1MCrime & Legal$955kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 265 grantees
All grantees of The Mac AIDS Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation$1,000,000114%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$809,00032%
Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers$750,00029%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$725,00031%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$600,00030%
Glaad Inc$550,00034%
Fund for Public Health in New York Inc$500,00011%
Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc$475,00032%
Housing Works Inc$445,00031%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$435,00030%
AIDS Foundation of Chicago$386,15431%
Girls Inc$350,00012%
Project Angel Food$344,00033%
Center for Health and Gender Equity Inc$330,00035%
National Harm Reduction Coalition$300,00032%
Drug Policy Alliance$300,00031%
Global Fund for Children$300,00022%
Project Open Hand$287,76131%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center$287,00030%
Emory University$275,00010%
San Francisco AIDS Foundation$266,41730%
Gay Men's Health Crisis Inc$251,37430%
Bills Kitchen Inc$251,00035%
Bailey House Inc$250,00031%
The Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc$225,00032%
Memphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc$225,00032%
Health Global Access Project Incorporated$225,000311%
AIDS United$225,00031%
University of Miami$225,00020%
St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc$195,00031%
The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis Inc$190,41432%
Grant Foundation Inc$190,00022%
National Center for Civic Innovation In$185,00031%
Hips$175,00036%
Apla Health & Wellness$167,63210%
Status Home Inc F/K/A Jerusalem House Inc$163,00031%
Alliance for Housing and Healing$161,00031%
North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition$161,00035%
Collaborative Solutions Inc$160,00033%
The Fortune Society Inc$160,00030%
Ali Forney Center Inc$160,00031%
Project Inform$160,00027%
HIV Law Project Inc$160,00038%
Sheltering Arms Children and Family Services Inc$160,00030%
Larkin Street Youth Services$160,00030%
AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area$160,00034%
Clare Housing$160,00032%
Pwa Coalition of Dallas Inc$160,00031%
African Services Committee Inc$160,00031%
National AIDS Housing Coalition Dba National Hiv/Aids Housing Coali$160,000332%
The Legal Aid Society$160,00030%
Food & Friends Inc$159,00030%
Peter & Paul Community Services Inc$155,00032%
Mama's Kitchen$151,00032%
National Lgbtq Task Force$150,00031%
International Assn of Physicians in AIDS Care$150,0001n/a
Heartland Alliance Health$145,00030%
Open Arms of Minnesota$145,00031%
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc$135,0003n/a
Advocates for Youth$135,00011%
Community Servings Inc$132,00031%
Funders Concerned About AIDS Inc$130,000310%
Institute for Public Health Innovation$125,00023%
Human Rights Watch Inc$125,00030%
National Coalition of Std Directors$125,00023%
True Colors United Inc$125,00033%
The AIDS Institute Inc$125,00024%
AIDS Project Los Angeles$121,84021%
Tag Treatment Action Group Inc$115,00032%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center$111,00030%
AIDS Services Coalition Inc$110,00033%
Joseph's House Inc$110,00033%
On Point NYC Inc$105,00032%
San Antonio AIDS Foundation$103,00031%
Dave Purchase Project$102,00031%
Safe Horizon Inc$100,00030%
The Houston Food Bank$100,00010%
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directorsdba Nastad$100,00011%
Greyston Foundation Inc$100,00032%
North Jersey AIDS Alliance Inc$100,00031%
Open Hand Atlanta Inc$99,00030%
Mazzoni Center$98,00030%
Food Outreach Inc$91,00032%
AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania$90,00033%
Unity House of Troy Inc$90,00030%
Project Hospitality Inc$90,00030%
Caracole Inc$90,00031%
Lifelong Health for All$89,95830%
Hyacinth AIDS Foundation Inc$88,00030%
Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance$86,00011%
Voces Latinas Corporation$85,00032%
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation$81,37030%
Family Health Centers of San Diego Inc$80,00030%
Family and Medical Counseling Service Inc$80,00020%
The Center in Asbury Park Inc$79,17725%
Resource Center of Dallas Inc$79,00030%
Project Angel Heart$78,00031%
Our House of Portland Inc$76,00031%
The Health Trust$76,00030%
Apnha Place to Nourish Your Health$76,00032%
AIDS Foundation Houston Inc$75,56931%
Transgender Law Center$75,00011%
AIDS Alabama Inc$75,00030%
Trustees of Tufts College$75,00030%
New York University$75,00010%
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation$75,0001n/a
Prisma Community Care (Fka Southwest Center Hiv/Aids Inc)$75,00031%
AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland Inc$74,00032%
AIDS Services of Austin Inc$72,00030%
HIV Resource Consortium Inc dba Tulsa CARES$70,17631%
Gregory House Programs$70,00031%
Lowcountry AIDS Services Childs$70,00031%
DAP Health Inc$70,00030%
Inspirica Inc$70,00030%
AIDS Service Center of Lower Manhattan Inc$70,00030%
Allies for Health Wellbeing$70,00031%
Southwest Research & Information Center$70,00032%
Hands on Hartford Inc$70,00031%
AIDS Outreach Center$70,00031%
Food for Thought$70,00031%
Bebashi-Transition to Hope$70,00030%
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon$70,0003n/a
Heartland Human Care Services Inc$70,00030%
Iris House - a Center for Women Living With HIV Inc$70,00030%
The Damien Center$70,00031%
Georgia Harm Reduction Coalition Inc$70,00032%
Options for Community Living Inc$70,00030%
Chicago House & Social Service Agency$70,00030%
Alamo Area Resource Center Inc$70,00030%
Living Room Inc$70,0003n/a
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley$70,00030%
Moveable Feast Inc$69,00031%
AIDS Services Foundation Orange County$67,62220%
Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House$65,00031%
Touch- Together Our Unity Can Heal Inc$65,00032%
Nashville Cares$65,00030%
St Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction$65,00031%
Aliveness Project Inc$65,00031%
San Francisco Drug Users Union DBA Health Initiatives forthe Tenderloin$65,000310%
Montefiore Medical Center$65,00030%
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano$61,00030%
Hesperian Health Guides$60,00022%
New Mexico AIDS Services Inc$59,00036%
AIDS Project of the Ozarks$57,70930%
Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc$57,00021%
Vivent Health Inc$55,41820%
ActionAids Inc$55,00030%
Camden Area Health Education Center Inc$55,00032%
Lifecare Alliance$54,00030%
Cascade AIDS Project$52,95030%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$50,00010%
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights$50,00011%
Johns Hopkins University$50,00010%
International Medical Corps$50,00010%
The Albany Damien Center Inc$49,00030%
Edge New Jersey Inc$48,00031%
Hope and Help Center of Central Florida Inc$45,63231%
Vermont Cares$45,00032%
Trillium Health Inc$45,00030%
Matthew 25 AIDS Services Inc$45,00030%
Utah Aids Foundation$45,0003n/a
South Central Education Development Inc$45,000333%
Interfaith AIDS Ministry of Greater Danbury Inc$45,000317%
Corporacion El Punto En la Montana$45,0002n/a
N Street Village Inc$45,00030%
Ehs Inc$45,00030%
Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation$45,00030%
The Triad Health Project$45,00032%
Strategies for Change$45,00031%
Central Florida Haven of Hope Ministries Inc$43,0003n/a
Lansing Area AIDS Network$40,00032%
Boulder County AIDS Project$40,00031%
Coastal Bend Food Bank$40,00010%
Roper St Francis Foundation$40,00030%
New York Common Pantry$40,00030%
Austin Harm Reduction Coalition$40,00025%
Regional AIDS Intercommunity Network of Oklahoma Inc$40,0002n/a
StJames Social Service Corporation$40,00033%
AIDS Council of Northeastern New York$40,00030%
The Community Food Bank of Victoria Dba Food Bank of the Golden Crescent$40,00010%
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc$40,00010%
Maitri Compassionate Care$40,00030%
Thrive DC$40,00021%
Project Lazarus$40,00022%
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project$40,00031%
House of Ruth Inc$40,00031%
Philanthropy New York Inc$39,50020%
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc$35,00011%
Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline$35,00022%
St John's Community Health$35,00020%
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities$35,00010%
Gender Spectrum Charitable Fund$35,00021%
Community Health Project Inc$35,00010%
Howard Brown Health Center$35,00010%
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts Inc$34,33330%
Broward House Inc$32,00030%
Legal Aid Service of Broward County Inc$30,00020%
Regents of the University of Michigan$30,0001n/a
Interfaith Residence D/B/A Doorways$30,00020%
Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center$26,23220%
Victory Programs Inc$26,00030%
House of Mercy Inc$25,11932%
National Park Foundation$25,00010%
Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc$25,00011%
Translatina Network Inc$25,00024%
The Tyler Clementi Foundation Inc$25,00013%
National Theatre in America Inc$25,00011%
Edward Charles Foundation$25,00010%
United Way of King County$25,00010%
Coalition for the Homeless Inc$25,00010%
Mothers2mothers United States Inc$25,00010%
The Howard University$25,00010%
Lgbt Center Orlando Inc$25,0001n/a
HIV-AIDS Alliance for Region Two Inc$25,00010%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago$25,00020%
Aunt Rita's Foundation$24,92722%
Life Foundation$24,20021%
Bethany Place$21,00021%
AIDS Delaware Inc$20,00020%
Northeast Indiana Positive Resource Connection Inc$20,00021%
Community Kitchen of Monroe County Inc$20,00031%
Bronxworks Inc$20,00030%
Foothill AIDS Project$17,00020%
Friends for Life Corporation$15,00010%
Hawaii Island Hivaids Foundation$15,00021%
Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training$15,00014%
Sean Humphrey House$12,00023%
Capital City AIDS Fund$11,00025%
Special Delivery San Diego$11,00023%
Valleywise Health Foundation$10,0001n/a
Ricky Martin Foundation Corp$10,00010%
1n10 Inc$10,00011%
Visual AIDS for the Arts Inc$10,00021%
World AIDS Museum Incorporated$8,00022%
The Family Center Inc$7,00020%
Someone Cares Inc of Atlanta$6,00020%
Aid Atlanta Inc$5,85720%
Malama Pono Health Services Fka Malama Pono-Kauai AIDS Project$5,00010%
Valley AIDS Council$5,0001n/a
Aid for AIDS of Nevada (Afan)$5,00010%
Nutrition and Services for Seniors$5,0001n/a
Other Options Inc$4,5401n/a
AIDS Alabama South LLC$3,00010%
The Metrohealth Foundation Inc$3,00020%
RAIN Inc$3,00010%
Chicanos Por la Causa Inc Cplc$3,00010%
Shanti Orange County$3,00020%
Palmetto Aids Life Support Services Inc$3,00010%
Empath Health Inc$3,00010%
Rainbow Health Minnesota$2,6191n/a
One Heartland$2,50010%
Hunger for Success$2,0001n/a
Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services$2,00010%
AIDS Action Coalition of Huntsville$2,00010%
The Hospice Foundation of the Florida Suncoast Inc$2,00010%
West Alabama AIDS Outreach Inc Five Horizons Health Services$1,00010%
Access Esperanza Clinics Inc$1,00010%
Mopride Inc$1,0001n/a
Basic Nwfl Inc$1,00010%
Downtown Emergency Service Center$1,00010%
Health Services of North Texas Inc$1,00010%
Foundcare Inc$1,00010%
Tarrant County Samaritan Housing Inc$1,00010%
AIDS Care Ocean State Inc$90010%
AIDS Athens Inc$45810%

Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Mac AIDS Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $809,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWashington Regional Association of Grantmakers: $750,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $725,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $600,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGlaad Inc: $550,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetFund for Public Health in New York Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetElton John AIDS Foundation Inc: $475,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHousing Works Inc: $445,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $435,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAIDS Foundation of Chicago: $386,154 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGirls Inc: $350,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetProject Angel Food: $344,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCenter for Health and Gender Equity Inc: $330,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNational Harm Reduction Coalition: $300,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetDrug Policy Alliance: $300,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGlobal Fund for Children: $300,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetProject Open Hand: $287,761 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLos Angeles Lgbt Center: $287,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $275,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco AIDS Foundation: $266,417 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGay Men's Health Crisis Inc: $251,374 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBills Kitchen Inc: $251,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetBailey House Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMemphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHealth Global Access Project Incorporated: $225,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAIDS United: $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc: $195,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis Inc: $190,414 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGrant Foundation Inc: $190,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNational Center for Civic Innovation In: $185,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHips: $175,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetApla Health & Wellness: $167,632 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStatus Home Inc F/K/A Jerusalem House Inc: $163,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAlliance for Housing and Healing: $161,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition: $161,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCollaborative Solutions Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetThe Fortune Society Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAli Forney Center Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetProject Inform: $160,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetHIV Law Project Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetSheltering Arms Children and Family Services Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $160,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area: $160,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetClare Housing: $160,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPwa Coalition of Dallas Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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 Estee Lauder Companies Charitable FoundationNY249.4× affinity125 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · AIDS United · The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation · Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc · Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation In · AIDS Healthcare Foundation · Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids Inc · Direct Relief · The Keith Haring Foundation Inc · Drug Policy Alliance · Emory University

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.

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How do I get to The Mac AIDS Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Mac AIDS Fund 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.

About The Mac AIDS Fund

How much does The Mac AIDS Fund give?
The Mac AIDS Fund reported 1 grants totaling $11,733,389 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 258 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Mac AIDS Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (54%), Philanthropy (17%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
Who are The Mac AIDS Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation ($1.0M), God's Love We Deliver Inc ($809k), Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers ($750k).
Does The Mac AIDS Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mac AIDS Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mac AIDS Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation, Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc, AIDS United.
Where is The Mac AIDS Fund based?
The Mac AIDS Fund is based in NY.

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 344 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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