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Aed Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$178k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$7.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Aed Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$177k22%
FY20239$164k44%
FY20227$191k14%
FY20216$234k0%
FY20207$120k14%
FY20198$194k25%
FY20189$75k11%
FY20179$75kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$636kHealth$516kHuman Services$42kArts & Culture$31kRecreation & Sports$8kYouth Development$3kFood & Nutrition$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marin General Hospital Foundation$510,00081%
Marin Country Day School$430,00070%
The Thacher School Inc$90,00080%
The Head Royce School$73,50080%
Advokids$20,00021%
Schools of the Sacred Heart-San Francisco$19,0008n/a
Bay Area Discovery Museum$15,00020%
San Anselmo Montessori School$12,50031%
Backyard Kids Theater Inc$10,00022%
There With Care of the Bay Area$6,00030%
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All grantees of Aed Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marin General Hospital Foundation$510,00081%
Marin Country Day School$430,00070%
The Thacher School Inc$90,00080%
The Head Royce School$73,50080%
Advokids$20,00021%
Schools of the Sacred Heart-San Francisco$19,0008n/a
Bay Area Discovery Museum$15,00020%
San Anselmo Montessori School$12,50031%
Backyard Kids Theater Inc$10,00022%
There With Care of the Bay Area$6,00030%
Pixie Parents Inc$5,00011%
Common Sense Media$5,00010%
Marin Promise Partnership$2,50010%
Four Winds$2,5001n/a
Challenged Athletes Inc$2,50010%
San Francisco Food Bank$2,00020%
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul$1,50020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Aed Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarin General Hospital Foundation: $510,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMarin Country Day School: $430,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Head Royce School: $73,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAdvokids: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBay Area Discovery Museum: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Anselmo Montessori School: $12,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBackyard Kids Theater Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThere With Care of the Bay Area: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPixie Parents Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCommon Sense Media: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Promise Partnership: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChallenged Athletes Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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 San Francisco FoundationCA20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Laural Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Etc Family Foundation · Mbd & Jfd Foundation · Am Dachs Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Aed Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Aed Foundation 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.

About Aed Foundation

How much does Aed Foundation give?
Aed Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $178,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Aed Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Health (42%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Aed Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Marin General Hospital Foundation ($510k), Marin Country Day School ($430k), The Thacher School Inc ($90k).
Does Aed Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Aed Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Aed Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Laural Foundation.
Where is Aed Foundation based?
Aed Foundation is based in CA.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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