Connecticut · Private foundation
Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 13 | $20k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $39k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $20k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $22k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $14k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $14k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $11k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | $46,178 | 6 | n/a |
| Yale University | $40,882 | 3 | n/a |
| Westport School of Music | $16,000 | 9 | 1% |
| 'Sconset Trust Inc | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County Inc | $3,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Gilman School Incorporated | $1,550 | 7 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Creekview Elementary School PTO | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Maryland Food Bank Inc | $750 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | $46,178 | 6 | n/a |
| Yale University | $40,882 | 3 | n/a |
| Westport School of Music | $16,000 | 9 | 1% |
| 'Sconset Trust Inc | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County Inc | $3,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Gilman School Incorporated | $1,550 | 7 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Creekview Elementary School PTO | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Maryland Food Bank Inc | $750 | 3 | 0% |
| Mac Angels Foundation Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation
- How much does Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation give?
- Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $20,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (16%).
- Who are Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yale University ($46k), Yale University ($41k), Westport School of Music ($16k).
- Does Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation based?
- Andre and Elaine Suan Foundation is based in CT.
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