How much did THE MAC AIDS FUND grant in FY2020?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE MAC AIDS FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

prevention care

2020

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$11,733,389

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

the estee lauder com charitable fdn$11,733,389

02The need

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 (FY18–19, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$20M · 179 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

179 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2020, 179 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

179

146

Total granted

$20M

$7.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+33%

Still filing today

80%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

Tides Foundation
2× · 2018–2019 · $5.5M · revenue +23%
GL
God's Love We Deliver
2× · 2018–2019 · $609k · revenue +188%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
2× · 2018–2019 · $550k · revenue +38%

Funded once

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The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +246%
GI
GLAAD Inc
one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -30%
FF
Fund for Public Health in New York Incgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +57%

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.

Hiv Alliance

Supporting individuals living with hiv/aids and preventing new hiv infections.

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Aids Community Resources Inc

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…

Education

Aids Legal Referral Panel of the San

To advance and protect the rights, dignity and health of people living with hiv/aids.

Health

Aidsnet Inc

Aidsnet builds healthier communities by planning and funding hiv/aids care and prevention

Health

Health Services Center Inc

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.

Health

The Philadelphia Center

Empower those living with hiv, eliminate new hiv transmissions, and enhance community wellness.

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Harlem United Community Aids Center Inc

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.

Health

Aids Interfaith Network Inc

Aids Interfaith Network, Inc. AIN works to prevent the spread of HIV, and serves persons living with HIV and other vulnerable populations.

Health

Aids Healthcare Foundation

The foundation provides medical care for those affected by hiv or aids

Human Services

African American Aids Policy and

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.

Health

Aids Arms Inc

Promoting health equity through education, prevention, research, and personalized healthcare.

Health

Delaware Hiv Services Inc

We are dedicated to eliminating the spread of hiv/aids through our leadership to ensure a high quality, seamless continuum of care for all people infected and affected in delaware.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%3/220

the rest of the field

10,118/120,540

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.

05the grantee network

218 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

208/218

Grantees still filing

177/218

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$23,270,694Philanthropy$6,670,763Health$5,697,726Human Services$1,448,177Food & Nutrition$1,291,358Housing & Shelter$649,000Education$481,000

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.

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.

The Estee Lauder Companies CharitableNY243.1× affinity118 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable · 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 · Drug Policy Alliance · Robin Hood Foundation · Direct Relief · Emory University · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: South Central Educational Development Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~18 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 550756137 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on South Central Educational Development Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Mac AIDS Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Mac AIDS Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MAC AIDS FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

218 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Mac AIDS Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE MAC AIDS FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

218 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Mac AIDS Fund?

More from the funding graph