Iowa · Private foundation
Athene Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,256
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,510,894
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 79
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Athene Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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 | 46 | $3.2M | 37% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $3.7M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $3.2M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $2.0M | 55% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $986k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 79 | $633k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Iowa | $6,026,610 | 6 | 6% |
| Great Outdoors Foundation | $2,799,166 | 4 | 38% |
| Childserve Foundation Inc | $676,667 | 2 | 4% |
| Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity Inc | $514,761 | 3 | 1% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $472,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Wesleylife Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| United Way of Greenwich Inc | $154,179 | 2 | 3% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa | $79,750 | 5 | 1% |
| Food Bank of Iowa | $76,669 | 5 | 0% |
| Urban Dreams | $72,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 137 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Athene Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 114 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: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · Meredith Corporation Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Lsb Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Athene Charitable Foundation
- How much does Athene Charitable Foundation give?
- Athene Charitable Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $3,478,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 79 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Athene Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Environment (21%), Public Benefit (14%).
- Who are Athene Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Central Iowa ($6.0M), Great Outdoors Foundation ($2.8M), Childserve Foundation Inc ($677k).
- Does Athene Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Athene Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Athene Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation.
- Where is Athene Charitable Foundation based?
- Athene Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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