Indiana · Public charity
Aws Foundation Inc
Our mission is to help children and adults with enduring intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities live as independently as possible, be included in the community and function at their highest potential. We envision a community in which people with enduring intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities are engaged…
- $6.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 90
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $6.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $46,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 79
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $130M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Aws Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 | 80 | $6.1M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 60 | $7.4M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $5.9M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $6.9M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $3.8M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 79 | $3.8M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $4.5M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $4.8M | 52% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc | $3,764,489 | 9 | 19% |
| Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc | $2,087,610 | 4 | 20% |
| Community Transportation Network Inc | $2,048,764 | 9 | 18% |
| Carey Services Inc | $1,521,273 | 7 | 5% |
| Questa Education Foundation Inc | $1,476,875 | 5 | 18% |
| League for the Blind and Disabled Inc | $1,437,283 | 8 | 23% |
| Cardinal Services Inc of Indiana | $1,387,041 | 6 | 2% |
| Pathfinder Services Inc | $1,370,676 | 9 | 1% |
| The Arc of Northeast Indiana Inc | $1,206,603 | 8 | 1% |
| Arc of Wabash County Inc | $1,199,783 | 6 | 14% |
Show all 189 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Aws Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · The James Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Dekko Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee
How this is measured
About Aws Foundation Inc
- How much does Aws Foundation Inc give?
- Aws Foundation Inc reported 90 itemized grants totaling $6,483,209, out of $6,940,620 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 79 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Aws Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Human Services (16%), Education (13%).
- Who are Aws Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc ($3.8M), Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc ($2.1M), Community Transportation Network Inc ($2.0M).
- Does Aws Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Aws Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn, Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc, Edward M Wilson Foundation.
- Where is Aws Foundation Inc based?
- Aws Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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