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The Mac AIDS Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The Mac AIDS Fund

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12M
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$12M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$11,733,389
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
the estee lauder com charitable fdn$11,733,389
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%St Boniface Haiti Foundation: $60k → 8%Southeast Texas Food Bank: $40k → 19%New Mexico AIDS Services Inc: $25k → 14%Hands On Hartford: $30k → 11%The Center in Asbury Park: $41k → 6%Open Arms of Minnesota: $60k → 11%New Mexico AIDS Services Inc: $21k → 14%Hands On Hartford: $25k → 11%The Center in Asbury Park: $38k → 6%St Boniface Haiti Foundation: $75k → 8%Open Arms of Minnesota: $45k → 11%Hands On Hartford: $15k → 11%St Boniface Haiti Foundation: $60k → 8%Open Arms of Minnesota: $40k → 11%Albany Damien Center: $23k → 14%Friends For Life Corporation: $15k → 17%The Damien Center: $30k → 16%St James Social Service Corporation: $20k → 16%Albany Damien Center Inc: $15k → 14%Broward House Inc: $15k → 13%The Damien Center: $25k → 16%The Damien Center: $15k → 16%Clare Housing: $70k → 11%The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: $50k → 14%Clare Housing: $50k → 11%Clare Housing: $40k → 11%Community Servings: $50k → 16%Larkin Street Youth Services: $70k → 10%Community Servings: $45k → 16%Larkin Street Youth Services: $50k → 10%Community Servings: $37k → 16%Larkin Street Youth Services: $40k → 10%Safe Horizon Inc: $50k → 17%Safe Horizon Inc: $25k → 17%Your Mom Cares LLC: $25k → 14%Safe Horizon Inc: $25k → 17%Heartland Human Care Services: $30k → 14%Heartland Human Care Services: $25k → 14%Heartland Human Care Services: $15k → 14%Institute for Public Health Innovation: $75k → 14%HIPS: $100k → 14%Institute for Public Health Innovation: $50k → 14%HIPS: $50k → 14%HIPS: $25k → 14%The Tyler Clementi Foundation Inc: $25k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $125k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $50k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $50k → 17%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

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SC
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HI
OK
LA
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TX
FL
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 223 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

223
116

Total granted

$26M
$6.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+74%

Still filing today

84%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationHousing & 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

  • GL
    GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $809k · revenue +226%
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $725k · revenue +43%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $600k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +85%
  • FF
    FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +60%
  • JS
    Joan & Sandy Weill Medical College of Cornell UNI
    one grant, 2019 · $400k
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
The Philadelphia Center

Hiv/aids counseling/assistance

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2
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
3
Aids Community Resources Inc D/B/a Acr Health

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
4
Tpa Network Incorporated

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.

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5
Alianza of New Mexico

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.

Human Services
6
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
7
Community Access National Network Cann

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…

Health
8
Hiv Alliance

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

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9
The Hiv and Hepatitis Policy Institute

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…

Health
10
African American Aids Policy and Training Institute

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
11
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
12
Aidsnet Inc

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aids Council of Northeastern New York; 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.
04the grantee network

265 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. 265 of the 344 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
80
Early backer (in before they grew)
251/265
Grantees still filing
224/265
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

the estee lauder com charitable fdn: $11,733,389 · Otherthe estee lauder com charitable fdn+91 more: $12,849,189 · Other+91 moreTIDES FOUNDATION: $6,877,108 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONTHE ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ESTEE LAUDER COM…WASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS: $750,000 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON REGIONAL …+2 more: $175,000 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $600,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD …FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC: $500,000 · HealthFUND FOR PUBLIC HEA…ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $475,000 · HealthELTON JOHN AIDS FOU…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $435,000 · HealthAIDS Foundation of Chicago: $386,154 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $344,000 · HealthNATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION: $300,000 · HealthDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $300,000 · Health+54 more: $5,129,156 · Health+54 moreBills Kitchen Inc: $251,000 · Human ServicesTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 · Human ServicesHIPS: $175,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services: $160,000 · Human ServicesCLARE HOUSING: $160,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $145,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $132,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $125,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER IN ASBURY PARK INC: $79,177 · Human Services+6 more: $368,000 · Human ServicesGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $809,000 · Food & NutritionProject Open Hand: $287,761 · Food & NutritionMAMA'S KITCHEN: $151,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $99,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD OUTREACH INC: $91,000 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $86,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $70,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $61,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $54,000 · Food & NutritionPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $385,000 · EducationEmory University: $275,000 · EducationAIDS UNITED: $225,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $225,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $75,000 · EducationNew York University: $75,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INC: $75,000 · EducationCAMDEN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $55,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationSTATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC: $163,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS INC: $160,000 · Housing & ShelterALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $160,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL AIDS HOUSING COALITION DBA NATIONAL HIV/AIDS HOUSING COALI: $160,000 · Housing & ShelterPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterCARACOLE INC: $90,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$24,582,578Philanthropy$8,802,108Health$8,469,310Human Services$2,115,177Food & Nutrition$1,708,761Education$1,440,000Housing & Shelter$888,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $6,877,108 over 3y, 0.6% of 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $385,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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.

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 Comp…Broadway Caresequity …AIDS UnitedThe Elizabeth Taylor …Elton John AIDS Found…Kent Richard Hofmann …AIDS Healthcare Found…Design Industries Fou…Direct ReliefThe Keith Haring Foun…Drug Policy AllianceEmory University
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mac AIDS Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mac AIDS Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
67report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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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.

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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