Nevada · Private foundation
Aja Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $224,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 25
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Aja Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $665k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $1.4M | 54% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $1.3M | 64% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $1.1M | 61% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $812k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Fund for Unicef | $637,521 | 2 | 0% |
| Engera Inc | $615,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $600,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hopkins School Incorporated | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fulfillment Fund | $325,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Three Angels Children's Relief Inc | $241,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Makolekole USA Inc | $221,500 | 2 | 78% |
| Steppingstone Foundation Inc | $195,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Fulfillment Fund Las Vegas | $180,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Partnership for the Future | $135,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Aja Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Bendon Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Aja Foundation
- How much does Aja Foundation give?
- Aja Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,461,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 25 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Aja Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (36%), Education (29%), Health (12%).
- Who are Aja Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: United States Fund for Unicef ($638k), Engera Inc ($615k), Prostate Cancer Foundation ($600k).
- Does Aja Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Aja Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Aja Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bendon Family Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Globalgiving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Aja Foundation based?
- Aja Foundation is based in NV.
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