Skip to content

New York · Nonprofit

ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC

ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,180,269 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,933,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$20M
Funders on record
136
Grants received
$25M
Net assets
$16M
55/136 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc does

Mission

Established in 1992, the foundation is one of the leading independent aids organizations in the world. With the mobilization of our supporters and partners, we fund local experts across four continents to provide care as well as supporting governments to end aids.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The elton john aids foundation is one of the top 5 philanthropic funders of hiv/aids grants worldwide. Since our founding, we have raised more than $636 million to support over 3,192 projects in 102 countries to end aids. In 2024, our u.s. And u.k. Entities together funded $21,448,088 of new grants, almost matching our record of $21,647,822 in 2023. The u.s. Entity alone awarded $13,486,898 of grants and spent $17,528,743 on program services, 88% of total expenses. See schedule o for continuation.

    $17,528,743 spentof which $13,486,898 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,528,743.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 85 ($13M) Expenses 47 ($6.2M) Net assets 164 ($18M)2019 Revenue 40 ($6.1M) Expenses 102 ($13M) Net assets 97 ($10M)2020 Revenue 49 ($7.5M) Expenses 51 ($6.6M) Net assets 103 ($11M)2021 Revenue 56 ($8.5M) Expenses 101 ($13M) Net assets 86 ($9.3M)2022 Revenue 192 ($29M) Expenses 173 ($22M) Net assets 147 ($16M)2023 Revenue 142 ($22M) Expenses 171 ($22M) Net assets 146 ($16M)2024 Revenue 133 ($20M) Expenses 154 ($20M) Net assets 149 ($16M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (133)Expenses (154)Net assets (149)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $18M to $29M (+56%).

$14M
$24M
$19M
$16M
$18M
$29M
$36M
$37M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.2M
’17
$6.8M
’18
−$7.1M
’19
$845k
’20
−$4.6M
’21
$6.8M
’22
−$548k
’23
$303k
’24
3.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Anne Aslett

Chief executive officer

Board chair

David Furnish

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed131191314141516
Joined·+5+2+12+10+7+5+5
No longer listed·7489744
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 39 funders to 33 funders, grant income fell $2.8M → $2.8M.

27 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC.

20%
largest funder
41%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 28% · 2019 27% · 2020 62% · 2021 55% · 2022 24% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

21% of ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 22 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 3%Fundraising 10%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • The Elton John AIDS Foundation · exempt
  • Ejaf Trading Limited · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC?
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,180,269 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,933,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $25,180,269 in grants to ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,933,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 136 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing