Avatar Alliance Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 27-4287118. Reported 17 grants totalling $4,281,892 to 16 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Avatar Alliance Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $100,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $50,000 and $150,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $2,350,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Game Changers Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $2,350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nia Tero Foundation | Seattle, WA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Woods Hole, MA | $410,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hawaii Marine Education and Research Center | Volcano, HI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| King Baudouin Foundation United States | New York, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Museum of Pop Culture | Seattle, WA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Biosphere Foundation | Bishop, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Support and Feed Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virgin Unite USA Inc | London | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Royal Canadian Geographical Society | Ottowa, Ontario | $71,292 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Ecological Consciousness | Olympia, WA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Archangel Ancient Tree Archive | Copemish, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Indigenous Language Institute | Santa Cruz, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| African Wildlife Foundation | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Asia Initiatives | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
1 of 16 (6%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 17%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- The Game Changers Foundation
PROVIDING SUPPORTIVE SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED BY POVERTY. OUR PRIMARY MISSION IS TO COMBAT HUNGER, UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE HOUSING CRISIS FOR DISPLACED WOMEN, CHILDREN, MEN AND RETIRED VETERANS. - Nia Tero Foundation
WORK IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WHO SUSTAIN THRIVING TERRITORIES AND CULTURES TO STRENGTHEN GUARDIANSHIP OF EARTH AND ALL BEINGS. - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
TO TACKLE CRITICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR OCEAN PLANET, WITH PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS. OUR INNOVATIONS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FUEL SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH, SAFEGUARD COASTAL COMMUNITIES AND MARINE RESOURCES, AND STRENGTHEN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN OCEAN SCIENCE. - King Baudouin Foundation United States
TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR OCEAN SUSTAINABILITY AND ADVOCACY - Museum of Pop Culture
TO SUPPORT CREATIVE EXPRESSION THAT INSPIRES AND CONNECTS COMMUNITIES - Hawaii Marine Education and Research Center
TO SUPPORT CONNECTING COMMUNITIES TO TIMELY SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION ON MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | $525,000 | $150,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | $100 | $100 |
| 2023 | 3 | $660,000 | $100,000 |
| 2024 | 8 | $3,096,792 | $80,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 61% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $100,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Avatar Alliance Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Co Ml Mgmt 888 7TH Ave Fl 4, New York, NY, 10106. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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