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The Aj Fund Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
—
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% 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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $6,574, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,722 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,148 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$500
Median grant
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States reached
$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIO (Area Interfaith Outreach)$1,500
Michael Klahr Jewish Family Services$1,250
Tenement Museum$1,000
Bay Chamber Music School$500
Mid-Coast Recreation Center$500
Midcoast Habitat for Humanity$500
Friends of Rockland Public Library$500
Coastal Mountains Land Trust$500
Center for Small Town Jewish Life$324
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9k · 3 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$9k
$10k

Still filing today

0%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • MK
    Michael Klahr Jewish Family Services
    2× · 2022–2024 · $5k
  • A(
    AIO (Area Interfaith Outreach)
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3k
  • BC
    Bay Chamber Music School
    2× · 2022–2024 · $750

Funded once

  • NC
    National Christian Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • LE
    LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +21%
  • MH
    MIDCOAST HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +215%
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Michael Klahr Jewish Family Services: $5,250 · OtherMichael Klahr Jewish Family ServicesNational Christian Foundation: $5,000 · OtherNational Christian FoundationAIO (Area Interfaith Outreach): $2,500 · OtherAIO (Area Interfaith Outreach)Tenement Museum: $1,000 · OtherMIDCOAST HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,000 · OtherBay Chamber Music School: $750 · Other+7 more: $3,324 · Other+7 moreLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DOE FUND INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF ROCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 · EducationGeorges River Land Trust: $500 · Environment
Other$18,824Arts & Culture$1,000Housing & Shelter$1,000Education$500Environment$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDCOAST HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-COAST RECREATION CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGeorges River Land Trust: $500 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 LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MIDCOAST HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-COAST RECREATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ROCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Georges River Land Trust ↗

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 Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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.

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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