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The Aj Fund Inc

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.

$13k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$7k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,500
Total assets, FY2024
$175k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$5kPhilanthropy$5kHousing & Shelter$3kReligion$3kArts & Culture$3kEducation$1kEnvironment$1kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Aj Fund Inc

How much does The Aj Fund Inc give?
The Aj Fund Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $6,574, out of $12,722 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Aj Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (8%), Philanthropy (8%), Housing & Shelter (5%).
Who are The Aj Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Lower East Side Tenement Museum ($1k), Midcoast Habitat for Humanity ($1k), The Doe Fund Inc ($1k).
Does The Aj Fund Inc 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 Aj Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Aj Fund Inc based?
The Aj Fund Inc is based in ME.

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 17 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $13k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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