Delaware · Private foundation
The Aiko 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.
- $356k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Aiko Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 8 | $316k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $258k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $217k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $100k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $181k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $325,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $175,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Board of Trustees of Whitman College | $155,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| One World Surgery | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Loyola Marymount University | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Family Matters Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Glencoe Union Church | $48,500 | 3 | n/a |
| 826chi Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| African Women Rising | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $325,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $175,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Board of Trustees of Whitman College | $155,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| One World Surgery | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Loyola Marymount University | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Family Matters Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Glencoe Union Church | $48,500 | 3 | n/a |
| 826chi Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| African Women Rising | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Service Club of Chicago | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Family Scholar House Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools of Chicago | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Marin Promise Partnership | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| 626 Landmark Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Evanston Wilmette Golf Course Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Aiko 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: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Aiko Foundation
- How much does The Aiko Foundation give?
- The Aiko Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $355,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Aiko Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Science & Tech (27%), International (22%).
- Who are The Aiko Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ($325k), United States Fund for Unicef ($175k), Board of Trustees of Whitman College ($155k).
- Does The Aiko Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Aiko 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 The Aiko Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Aiko Foundation based?
- The Aiko Foundation is based in DE.
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