How much does Aven Foundation give?

Aven Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $9,024,361 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Aven Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (29%), Housing & Shelter (10%).

Who are Aven Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Board of Trustees of Whitman College ($6.2M), Congregations for the Homeless ($1.0M), Catholic Newman Center ($1.0M).

Does Aven Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Aven Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Aven Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.

Where is Aven Foundation based?

Aven Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Aven Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 48
Grants FY2024: 56
Organizations funded FY2023: 52%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $3,249,282
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 65; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $75M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Aven Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	48	$9.0M	38%
FY2023	56	$4.2M	52%
FY2022	65	$5.8M	71%
FY2021	33	$4.4M	73%
FY2020	19	$3.2M	100%
FY2017	1	$77	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$9.1MEducation$8.4MHousing & Shelter$2.8MHuman Services$1.9MEmployment$1.7MPhilanthropy$719kYouth Development$620kFood & Nutrition$530kOther$0

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Board of Trustees of Whitman College	$6,150,000	4	2%
Congregations for the Homeless	$1,000,000	1	11%
Catholic Newman Center	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Year Up Inc	$1,000,000	4	0%
Farestart	$575,000	5	1%
Bellevue Schools Foundation	$555,079	4	17%
Hopelink	$400,000	4	0%
Food Lifeline	$375,000	3	0%
Overlake Hospital Foundation	$250,000	1	1%
Cristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School	$250,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Aven Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Board of Trustees of Whitman College	$6,150,000	4	2%
Congregations for the Homeless	$1,000,000	1	11%
Catholic Newman Center	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Year Up Inc	$1,000,000	4	0%
Farestart	$575,000	5	1%
Bellevue Schools Foundation	$555,079	4	17%
Hopelink	$400,000	4	0%
Food Lifeline	$375,000	3	0%
Overlake Hospital Foundation	$250,000	1	1%
Cristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School	$250,000	1	n/a
Haitian Education and Leadership Program	$225,000	3	3%
Washington Women in Need	$200,000	2	8%
Together Center	$200,000	1	8%
Amara	$165,000	3	1%
Solid Ground Washington	$145,000	4	0%
Partnership for Learning	$120,000	2	4%
Treehouse	$110,000	3	0%
Friends of Youth	$100,000	1	1%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)	$100,000	2	0%
Vine Maple Place	$100,000	2	1%
Rainier Scholars	$100,000	4	0%
Rainier Prep	$100,000	3	1%
Macalester College	$100,000	1	0%
Roots Young Adult Shelter	$80,000	2	3%
New Beginnings	$80,000	4	0%
Family Law Casa of King County	$79,000	3	4%
LifeWire	$75,000	3	0%
Olive Crest	$75,000	3	0%
Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc	$65,000	2	0%
Harvest Against Hunger	$60,000	2	1%
Building Changes	$55,000	2	0%
Attain Housing	$55,000	2	2%
Encompass Northwest	$50,000	2	0%
Seashare	$50,000	2	1%
Girls Who Code Inc	$50,000	1	0%
The Sophia Way	$50,000	2	1%
Cares of Washington	$50,000	1	2%
Acres of Diamonds	$50,000	2	1%
Childrens Home Society of Washington	$50,000	1	0%
Imagine Housing	$50,000	2	0%
Vision House	$50,000	1	1%
Compass Housing Alliance	$45,000	3	0%
Operation Warm Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Way Back Inn Foundation	$45,000	2	15%
College Success Foundation	$40,000	2	0%
Prostate Cancer Foundation	$40,000	1	0%
Jubilee Women's Center	$40,000	2	2%
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center	$35,000	1	0%
Kindering Center	$35,000	1	0%
Maris Place	$35,000	1	11%
Boomstick23 Foundation Inc	$34,045	1	68%
Urban Artworks	$30,000	2	2%
Sound Generations	$30,000	1	0%
Discovery Institute	$30,000	3	0%
Youthcare	$30,000	1	0%
Summer Search	$30,000	1	0%
Look Listen and Learn Tv	$30,000	1	n/a
The Mockingbird Society	$25,000	1	1%
Wellspring Family Services	$25,000	1	0%
Heritage University	$25,000	1	0%
Childhaven	$25,000	1	0%
Overlake Service League	$25,000	1	1%
Your Money Matters	$25,000	1	6%
MOHAI Foundation	$25,000	1	9%
Northwest Center	$25,000	1	0%
Rainier Athletes	$25,000	1	2%
Kids and Paper	$20,000	2	6%
Children and Youth Justice Center	$20,000	2	0%
Westside Baby	$20,000	1	0%
Community for Youth	$20,000	1	3%
Domestic Abuse Women's Network	$20,000	1	1%
Best Dental Help	$20,000	2	2%
Northwest Education Access	$15,000	1	0%
Junior Achievement of Washington	$10,000	1	0%
Assistance League of Seattle	$10,000	1	1%
Athletes for Kids	$10,000	1	2%
Assistance League of the Eastside	$10,000	1	2%
Boy Scouts of America	$10,000	1	0%
Toys for Kids	$10,000	1	2%
Scarlet Road	$10,000	1	1%
Invested	$10,000	1	1%
Atlanta Braves Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank	$10,000	1	0%
Birthday Dreams	$10,000	2	1%
Just Compassion of East Washington County	$5,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.

Aven Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 83.

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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 Norcliffe FoundationWA84.4× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Washington Federal Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Windermere Foundation · Ellison Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust

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.

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About Aven Foundation

How much does Aven Foundation give?: Aven Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $9,024,361 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Aven Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (29%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
Who are Aven Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Board of Trustees of Whitman College ($6.2M), Congregations for the Homeless ($1.0M), Catholic Newman Center ($1.0M).
Does Aven Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Aven Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Aven Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
Where is Aven Foundation based?: Aven Foundation is based in WA.