How much did AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$1.1BEducation$747MArts & Culture$299MHealth$254MCommunity Improvement$228MHuman Services$156MInternational$145MReligion$95MYouth Development$55MOther$1.1B

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

casa ammawalliscaldwell surroundingdermatologic surgeryslide ranchappreciation naturalmotor disabilities

2019

theresa livingthinkwellintensivesspiritual directioncmvmamasrefuge recovery

2020

critical consciousnessnycpliving parkinson'stanacfcparkingnative primary

2021

animal-relateddisease disordersports leisurecosleylong nowemerald youthopossums

2022

animal-relateddisease disordersports leisurejchsunclassifiablebgcmctenwek

2023

youth develanimal-relateddisease disordersports leisureunclassifiablewilliamsonagreement glaza

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14380 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2802 grants · $20M
$10k–50k8350 grants · $163M
$50k–250k2626 grants · $250M
$250k+602 grants · $825M

$17,362

Median grant

States reached

$8.4B

Total assets

Largest grants

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING$102,850,203
EAMES INSTITUTE$63,265,261
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$49,838,327
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$42,809,617
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$31,866,463
HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$20,118,500
IMPACTASSETS INC$11,084,116
EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,246,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$10,085,956
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$10,007,020
GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND$9,108,036
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS$8,470,226
WALDER OPERATIONS LTD$8,334,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF UTAH$7,774,326
RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$6,888,896

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $91.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.0B · 1883 repeat orgs$94M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

1883 repeat relationships — 1595 still active in FY2024, 288 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1883

Total granted

$4.0B

$48M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

Still filing today

81%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

NP
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST
8× · 2017–2024 · $216M · revenue +241%
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
8× · 2017–2024 · $215M · revenue +47%
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND
8× · 2017–2024 · $185M · revenue +179%

Funded once

TL
THE LEAVITT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTOPMENT
one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue -85% · 66% of their budget
JC
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue -3%
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGANgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue +106%

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.

University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.

Education

University of Dayton

The university of dayton is a top-tier catholic research university with academic offerings from the undergraduate to the doctoral levels. we are a diverse community committed, in the marianist tradition, to educating the whole person and…

Education

Furman University

Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.

Education

University of the Sciences in

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders in the sciences. see sch. ouniversity of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and…

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California Lutheran University

Clu is an institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences.

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Drew University

The university offers graduate and undergraduate studies and is comprised of the college of liberal arts, the theological school, and the caspersen school of graduate studies.

Education

University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund and the most unlike its peers is Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%234/29,146

the rest of the field

12%

205,932/1,790,419

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.

05the grantee network

1627 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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

170

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

377

Early backer (in before they grew)

1596/1627

Grantees still filing

1314/1627

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,086,415,059Other$1,359,923,753Education$746,734,262Arts & Culture$299,306,707Health$253,912,547Community Improvement$227,731,745Human Services$156,317,526

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.

Samuels Family FoundationTX26.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 0 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Samuels Family Foundation · The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation · Milton and Denice Johnson Family · Parker Family Foundation · The Egerter Family Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Vera R Campbell Foundation · The Hunt Family Foundation of Nashville · The Kurt and Julie Hauser Foundation · Mission Pre-Born Inc · Care Net · Micah 68 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 AMERICAN ENDOWMENT 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: BARNES FAMILY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 810847423 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 BARNES FAMILY FOUNDATION, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 American Endowment Foundation?

Find your warmest path to American Endowment 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.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines