Missouri · Private foundation
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.
- $440k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 35
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Aen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $420k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $340k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Friends School | $110,000 | 3 | n/a |
| All Voting Is Local | $55,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blinknow Foundation a Nj Nonprofit | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Fund for Public Schools Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Common Cause Education Fund | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Prospect Park Alliance Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| People for the American Way Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Missouri Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Floating Doctors Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Aen Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Aen Foundation
- How much does Aen Foundation give?
- Aen Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $440,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 35 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Aen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Civil Rights (13%), Public Benefit (13%).
- Who are Aen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Brooklyn Friends School ($110k), All Voting Is Local ($55k), Blinknow Foundation a Nj Nonprofit ($45k).
- Does Aen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Aen 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 Aen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Panda Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Aen Foundation based?
- Aen Foundation is based in MO.
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