Connecticut · Public charity
American Eagle Financial Credit Union
Our mission is to enrich the lives of our members and communities to create a world where financial freedom is a reality. Our values are caring, trust and dependability.
- $187k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $179k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $9,443
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $67,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.6B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations American Eagle Financial Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $179k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $123k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $151k | 86% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $161k | 87% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $140k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartford Yard Goats Charitable Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 37% |
| Connecticut Double Play LLC (Dba Hartford Yard Goats) | $67,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Live Nation Entertainment | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Spirit of Springfield | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Almada Lodge Times Farm Camp Corporation | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rise And Shine CT Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Save All Dogs | $9,598 | 1 | 1% |
| Connecticut Cat Connection Inc | $9,598 | 1 | 3% |
| Friends of Camp Neipsic Inc | $9,598 | 1 | n/a |
| Cans-4-A-Cause of Greater Middletown | $9,598 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 64 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
American Eagle Financial Credit Union supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
How this is measured
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About American Eagle Financial Credit Union
- How much does American Eagle Financial Credit Union give?
- American Eagle Financial Credit Union reported 13 itemized grants totaling $178,552, out of $186,552 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does American Eagle Financial Credit Union fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Human Services (17%), Recreation & Sports (17%).
- Who are American Eagle Financial Credit Union's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Hartford Yard Goats Charitable Foundation Inc ($70k), Connecticut Double Play LLC (Dba Hartford Yard Goats) ($67k), Live Nation Entertainment ($35k).
- Does American Eagle Financial Credit Union fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Eagle Financial Credit Union?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Aetna Foundation Inc, Ion Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is American Eagle Financial Credit Union based?
- American Eagle Financial Credit Union is based in CT.
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