· Private foundation
The Aigner Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FUND SEED MONEY | $25,000 |
| REFUGE FOR WOMEN | $15,600 |
| CONCORDIA PLACE | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $7,628 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS | $5,000 |
| MOSAIC NATIONAL SUPPORTS | $2,000 |
| BETSY'S BLANKETS | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +94%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC6× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +70%
- BBBETSY'S BLANKETS5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +134% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- ELEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHRUCH IN AMERICAone grant, 2024 · $35k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISone grant, 2017 · $25k
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.
Lutheran services in america mission: cultivate caring communities that advance health and opportunity for all by building valuable connections, amplifying our voices and empowering our members in their mission to answer god's call to love…
To provide research and technical assistance in the fields of intellectual and developmental disabilities, population health, substance use and prevention, mental health and child and family services.
We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
We provide effective employment services to individuals recently released from incarceration.
Easterseals hawaii (esh) is creating a more equitable world so people with developmental disabilities can choose their path. we do this by reimagining how care and support can be better connected to fill gaps in human services across an…
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.
The hope learning academy serves children with intellectual/developmental disabilities and neurological disorders and their families by providing homes in which to grow, schools in which to learn, clinics in which to become healthier,…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds BETSY'S BLANKETS ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 214 EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds FUTURE TIES INC NFP ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC ↗
- Who funds SOSA - SAFE FROM ONLINE SEX ABUSE INC ↗
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: Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Aigner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aigner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
How this is measured
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