How much did AEN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of AEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $60k
$10k–50k18 grants · $240k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants

ALL VOTING IS LOCAL$55,000
BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL$45,000
BROOKLYN ORG$15,000
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$15,000
BLINK NOW FOUNDATION$15,000
VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER$15,000
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION$15,000
ST LOUIS ZOO$10,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$10,000
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS$10,000
MISSOURI BAPTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL$10,000
THE MUNY AT FOREST PARK$10,000
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 25% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$145k · 6 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$145k

$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+209%

+236%

Still filing today

67%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

PP
PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE
2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +33%
THE TREVOR PROJECT
2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +459%
NA
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND
2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +85%

Funded once

FD
FLOATING DOCTORSgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +130%
BC
BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +630%
FO
FRIENDS OF HILLSIDE DOG PARK
one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

New York City Bird Alliance Inc

Nyc bird alliance is a grassroots community that protects wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the quality of life for all new yorkers.

Environment

Riders Alliance Inc

Riders alliance is fighting for a world-class public transit system that meets the everyday needs of all new yorkers and takes us toward a more equitable city and sustainable future.

Civil Rights

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

Champions urban natural areas in nyc and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy.

Environment

New York Restoration Project

To transform underserved communities by creating a greener, more sustainable new york city.

Environment

Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp"), is the entity responsible for the planning, construction, maintenance and operation of brooklyn bridge park, an 85-acre sustainable waterfront park stretching 1.3 miles…

Recreation & Sports

Nature for Justice

Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.

Environment

New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful, see schedule o.

Arts & Culture

Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.

Environment

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The rainforest foundation us provides financial and technical support to indigenous communities and organizations to secure their rights to their traditional lands and protect their forests and livelihoods. we are tackling the world's most…

Environment

Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunites for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement

Communities United for Police Reform Action Fund

CPRAF works to end discrimination and abusive policing in NYC, promotes effective public policy solution that promotes safety for all and strenghten police accountability.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Floating Doctors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/30

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,535

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.

04the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

26/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$257,000Civil Rights$110,000Health$35,000Education$30,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Public Benefit$15,000Animals$13,000

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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation 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.

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1get no government money at all

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FLOATING DOCTORS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300492985 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FLOATING DOCTORS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Aen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Aen Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

AEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Aen Foundation?

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AEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Aen Foundation?

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