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Aen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $370k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| MISSOURI HISTORY MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| BROOKLYN ORG | $20,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO | $20,000 |
| FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| NEW YORKERS AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE | $15,000 |
| VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER | $15,000 |
| COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS | $15,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BLINK NOW FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
| BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| THE MUNY AT FOREST PARK | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BFBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +128%
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +93%
- PPPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- AVALL VOTING IS LOCALone grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue 0%
- FDFLOATING DOCTORS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +64%
- FOFRIENDS OF HILLSIDE DOG PARKone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fly North Theatricals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ALL VOTING IS LOCAL ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FLOATING DOCTORS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds The Life You Can Save ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Brownsville Think Tank Matters Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Panda Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organization Aen Foundation 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.
- National Indian Child Welfare Association — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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