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The Ae Family Foundation at a glance

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The Ae Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.1MHealth$2.4MInternational$464kEnvironment$456kEducation$368kCrime & Legal$304kPhilanthropy$279kScience & Tech$144kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN OPERA$400,000
CARNEGIE HALL$230,000
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$200,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$150,000
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY PALM BEACH$125,000
SCLERODERMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$103,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$102,500
CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON$100,000
CARAMOOR$75,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$75,000
MIANUS RIVER GORGE$45,000
YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS$40,000
UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH$30,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CARVER CENTER: $15k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $10k → 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 7%CARVER CENTER: $10k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%SQUASH HAVEN: $4k → 12%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
DC
MS
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 62 repeat orgs$916k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
53

Total granted

$8.0M
$730k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+7%

Still filing today

69%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +51%
  • TC
    The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $710k · revenue +130%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $438k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • NY
    NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +36%
  • CH
    CANAL HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
2
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
7
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
8
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
9
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 124 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
54/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN OPERA: $792,500 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERANY GENOME CENTER: $461,003 · OtherNY GENOME CENTERSCLERODERMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $428,000 · OtherSCLERODERMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $313,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGFAMILY REENTRY INC: $295,000 · OtherFAMILY REENTRY INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MISSISSIPPI: $180,000 · OtherMUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON: $150,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $130,000 · Other+64 more: $899,539 · Other+64 moreTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $1,210,565 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $710,000 · Arts & CultureThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln …Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $385,000 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts …YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $159,250 · Arts & CultureYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INCCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC: $130,000 · Arts & Culture+23 more: $363,592 · Arts & Culture+23 moreTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $395,631 · HealthTHE JACKSON LA…GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $209,500 · HealthGREENWICH HOSP…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $200,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENT…BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $125,000 · HealthBLYTHEDALE CHI…NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $120,000 · HealthNEW YORK GENOM…NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · HealthNATIONAL SCLER…+4 more: $26,250 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $437,500 · International+1 more: $1,500 · InternationalTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $276,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $75,000 · Education+5 more: $29,000 · EducationMIANUS RIVER GORGE INC: $342,500 · AnimalsPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25,000 · Human ServicesSQUASH HAVEN INC: $3,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$3,649,042Arts & Culture$2,958,407Health$1,141,381International$439,000Education$380,000Animals$342,500Human Services$70,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $1,210,565 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $710,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $437,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $395,631 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $385,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMIANUS RIVER GORGE INC: $342,500 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetFAMILY REENTRY INC: $295,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $276,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $209,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $159,250 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $130,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC: $130,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $77,667 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $58,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART: $45,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetORCHESTRA LUMOS INC: $33,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $14,525 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHousing Plus Solutions Inc: $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC: $14,400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetARTSWESTCHESTER INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDecoda Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF PORT CHESTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates: $8,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE HELICON FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIANUS RIVER GORGE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY REENTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Howard and Sarah …Ibm International Fou…Peckham Family Founda…The Bessemer Giving F…Fairfield County's Co…The Andrew W Mellon F…Td Charitable Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Jewish Communal FundNY21.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ae Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ae Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Pathways Inc: 45% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Squash Haven Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Orchestra Lumos Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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