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American Eagle Outfitters Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
299
Grants FY2025still arriving
40
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$1.2MYouth Development$1.0MPhilanthropy$928kArts & Culture$596kEducation$570kHealth$569kRecreation & Sports$451kFood & Nutrition$394kOther$0
02FY2025 · 299 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k221 grants · $1.0M
  • $10k–50k70 grants · $823k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $600k
$5,000
Median grant
40
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRING CHANGE TO MIND$100,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC$100,000
DELIVERING GOOD$100,000
DELIVERING GOOD$100,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$50,000
IT GETS BETTER$50,000
PERIOD INC$50,000
HEADCOUNT$50,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY$45,000
DISASTER GRANTS UNDER 5000$35,600
CITYARTS$15,000
ECKLEY MINERS' VILLAGE MUSEUM$15,000
URBAN ARTS$15,000
MCG YOUTH$15,000
YOUTH TROOPERS FOR GLOBAL AWARENESS$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $25k → 10%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $10k → 8%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $10k → 20%WOMEN AWARE: $10k → 8%PROSPERITY PLACE: $10k → 6%KATE'S CASA: $8k → 6%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $19k → 10%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $9k → 20%YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $10k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR GIRLS: $10k → 10%BEVERLY'S PGH: $8k → 10%BRANDON'S FOREVER HOME: $10k → 15%#HAPPYPERIOD: $10k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR GIRLS: $10k → 10%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $8k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON: $10k → 12%BRANDON'S FOREVER HOME: $8k → 15%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 14%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $9k → 20%COF TRAINING SERVICES INC: $10k → 10%RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $10k → 14%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $10k → 10%GLAMOURGALS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $9k → 20%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $10k → 17%INCLUDENYC: $10k → 17%INCLUDENYC: $8k → 17%EXHALE TO INHALE: $10k → 17%PENNSYLVANIA WOMEN WORK: $10k → 11%WOMEN IN NEED (WIN): $10k → 17%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $10k → 17%FAMILYLINKS: $10k → 11%NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $10k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $100k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $100k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $50k → 17%CENTER OF LIFE: $10k → 11%INCLUDENYC: $10k → 17%RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS DBA INCLUDENYC: $10k → 17%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS: $10k → 11%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS INC: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $10k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA WOMEN WORK: $10k → 11%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 153 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

153 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 205 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

153
326

Total granted

$3.8M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

76%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +20%
  • BP
    BEVERLY'S PGH
    5× · 2019–2025 · $69k · revenue +130%
  • SF
    STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
    3× · 2020–2023 · $63k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue 0%
  • HR
    HAZLETON REVITALIZATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • FT
    FREE THE GIRLS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -77%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
2
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
3
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
4
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
5
Partnership With Children Inc

Partnership with children's mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of children in new york city so they can succeed in school, society, and life.

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6
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…

Youth Development
7
Pathways Kitchen

Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward

Crime & Legal
8
Girls Inc of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

Our mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold through direct service and advocacy. in partnership with schools and at our girls inc. center, we focus on the development of the whole girl. she learns to value herself,…

—
9
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
10
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
11
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
12
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New York City; the most unlike its peers is Ottawa Cyclone Trap Team. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

417 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 417 of the 685 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
68
Early backer (in before they grew)
408/417
Grantees still filing
195/417
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDIVIDUAL GRANTS 3000 OR LESS: $283,013 · OtherINDIVIDUAL GRANTS 3000 OR LESSSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $110,000 · Other+117 more: $2,548,189 · Other+117 moreDELIVERING GOOD INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesDELIVERING GOOD I…BEVERLY'S PGH: $68,680 · Human ServicesBEVERLY'S PGHRESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $38,334 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA WOMEN WORK: $30,000 · Human Services+24 more: $382,000 · Human Services+24 moreCITYARTS INC: $48,625 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAssemble Inc: $23,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN STEPPERS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $16,000 · Arts & CultureFILM PITTSBURGH: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH YOUTH CHORUS: $12,800 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $72,000 · Arts & CultureSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $62,500 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $42,500 · EducationFUTURES AND OPTIONS INC: $39,000 · EducationPUBLICOLOR INC: $35,000 · EducationSUITUP INCORPORATED: $24,500 · EducationSPARKWHEEL INC: $24,000 · EducationSEWICKLEY ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $15,000 · EducationASSET INC: $15,000 · Education+4 more: $40,000 · EducationPERIOD INC: $100,000 · HealthBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $100,000 · HealthELIZABETH LAYTON CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $15,000 · HealthINDEPENDENT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthLOU RUSPI JR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $65,000 · EnvironmentNINE MILE RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $37,500 · EnvironmentALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $25,000 · EnvironmentGREATER HAZLETON AREA CIVIC PARTNERSHIP: $18,500 · EnvironmentVENTURE OUTDOORS INC: $16,000 · EnvironmentPA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentFABSCRAP INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCommunitopia: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHREE RIVERS WATERKEEPER: $10,000 · EnvironmentSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $37,500 · Recreation & SportsROW NEW YORK INC: $15,625 · Recreation & SportsBRANCH BROOK PARK ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsATALANTA NYC INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsAARON DONALD 99 FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,941,202Human Services$769,014Arts & Culture$362,425Education$312,500Health$260,000Environment$207,000Recreation & Sports$203,125

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELIVERING GOOD INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $110,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPERIOD INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc: $95,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH YOUTH LEADERSHIP: $72,500 over 3y, 30% of budgetBEVERLY'S PGH: $68,680 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $65,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $62,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFoster Love Project: $60,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $56,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGREEN GUERILLAS INC: $55,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetFREE THE GIRLS: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCITYARTS INC: $48,625 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $47,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $43,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $42,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFUTURES AND OPTIONS INC: $39,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $38,334 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNINE MILE RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $37,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $37,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS: $32,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA WOMEN WORK: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH LAYTON CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChabad of Columbus Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY: $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEAST CENTRAL KANSAS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Arts Partnership: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUITUP INCORPORATED: $24,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAssemble Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $23,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDONS FOREVER HOME: $22,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAN DO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,250 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFoundation For Girls: $20,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Grable FoundationPA99.7× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Buhl Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Eagle Outfitters Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Eagle Outfitters Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Women Aware Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Havenly: 40% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
  • School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon: 3% of income from government
  • Branch Brook Park Alliance Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Period Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
91report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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