Arizona · Private foundation
Ender Family 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.
- $283k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,374
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 17
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $836k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Ender Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 30 | $278k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $167k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $159k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $235k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $461k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Inc | $910,963 | 5 | 12% |
| Missoula Art Museum | $41,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Blackfoot Challenge Inc | $30,302 | 3 | 1% |
| Vassar College | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Partners Hope Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $19,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Winnetka Congregational Church | $14,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Brain Research Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($99k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ender Family 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pleiades Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Patagoniaorg · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Ender Family Foundation
- How much does Ender Family Foundation give?
- Ender Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $282,710 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Ender Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Education (7%), Environment (5%).
- Who are Ender Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block Inc ($911k), Missoula Art Museum ($41k), Blackfoot Challenge Inc ($30k).
- Does Ender Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ender Family 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 Ender Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pleiades Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Montana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ender Family Foundation based?
- Ender Family Foundation is based in AZ.
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