· Community foundation
American Endowment Foundation
To expand the capacity of american philanthropy throughout the financial services industry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14,380 grants below total $1,258,148,401 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,305,303,631 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $47,155,230 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2802 grants · $20M
- $10k–50k8350 grants · $163M
- $50k–250k2626 grants · $250M
- $250k+602 grants · $825M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $91.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against -35% for the ones you funded once.
1747 repeat relationships — 1475 still active in FY2024, 272 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TETHE EAMES INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2024 · $137M · revenue +194% · 99% of their budget
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $52M · revenue +76%
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $31M · revenue +48%
Funded once
- TLThe Leavitt Institute for International Developmentone grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue -98% · 66% of their budget
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROITone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue -12%
- MCMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.5M · revenue +250% · 41% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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…
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.
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…
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.
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…
Clu is an institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1587 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1587 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE EAMES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds DECHOMAI ASSET TRUST ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Walder Operations Ltd ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University Impact ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds TSG PUBLISHING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Barnes Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE HERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUMMINGS FOUNDATION FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds AIRBNBORG INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Colorado · Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation Inc · Mission Pre-Born Inc · The Hunt Family Foundation of Nashville · The Yabuki Family Foundation · Micah 68 Foundation · Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Heil Family Foundation · Care Net · Janet Q Lawson Foundation · David & Molly Pyott 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 organization 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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 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.