· Private foundation
The Mac AIDS Fund
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| the estee lauder com charitable fdn | $11,733,389 |
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 (FY17–19, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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
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.
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.
223 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2020, 223 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M 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
- GLGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $809k · revenue +226%
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $725k · revenue +25%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $600k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TETHE ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +85%
- FFFUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +57%
- JSJoan & Sandy Weill Medical College of Cornell UNIone grant, 2019 · $400k
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.
Hiv/aids counseling/assistance
Harlem united provides healthcare, supportive housing and prevention services to persons living with or at risk for aids or hiv related illnesses and other chronic conditions.
Aids community resources, inc. d/b/a acr health, is a community-based organization providing prevention, education, and support services to people with chronic illnesses, including hiv/aids, and those at risk for contracting hiv, stds, and…
Vision: vivent health envisions an end to the hiv/aids epidemic.mission: to end hiv/aids by providing integratred, personalzied, judgment-free healthcare, social services, and effective prevention strategies.
Alianza's mission is to empower hard-to-reach, vulnerable, and underserved populations through education and supportive services aimed at working with everyone we serve to achieve better outcomes and higher quality of life.
Aids Interfaith Network, Inc. AIN works to prevent the spread of HIV, and serves persons living with HIV and other vulnerable populations.
To define, promote, and improve access to healthcare services and supports for people living with HIV/AIDS and/or viral hepatitis through advocacy, education, and networking. These services must be affordable to the people who need them…
Supporting individuals living with hiv/aids and preventing new hiv infections.
The hiv+hepatitis policy institute promotes quality and affordable healthcare for people living with or at risk of hiv, hepatitis, and other serious and chronic health conditions. monitors policies that impact the prevention and treatment…
The organization's primary mission is to stop the aids epidemic in black communities by engaging and mobilizing black institutions and individuals in efforts to confront hiv.
The health services center (hsc), inc. is committed to the provision of quality, comprehensive hiv/aids services to all hiv infected, and affected, persons in our service area.
Aidsnet builds healthier communities by planning and funding hiv/aids care and prevention services. aidsnet contracts with agencies in the 6 pa counties of berks, carbon, lehigh, monroe, northampton & schuykill
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aids Council of Northeastern New York and the most unlike its peers is The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation. 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 36 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
264 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. 264 of the 344 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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AIDS Foundation of Chicago ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTH AND GENDER EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds Bills Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds BAILEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS UNITED ↗
- Who funds Memphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTH GLOBAL ACCESS PROJECT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH FOUNDATION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Mac AIDS Fund 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.
- The Center in Asbury Park Inc — 100% of income from government
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation — 77% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Apnha Place to Nourish Your Health — 24% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc — 16% of income from government
- Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Hyacinth Aids Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- Edge New Jersey Inc — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Broward House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hope and Help Center of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Legal Aid Service of Broward County 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.
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