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The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc

The american amusement machine charitable foundation sponsors fundraising events throughout the year with a portion of the proceeds being contributed to worthwhile children's charities.

$381k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2022
33%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$365k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$215,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 18
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$765k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 33% of the organizations The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyScience & TechOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$365k20%
FY20223$45k33%
FY202113$58k0%
FY202018$181k28%
FY201915$113k33%
FY201817$97k82%
FY20173$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$295kHealth$277kYouth Development$199kPhilanthropy$61kEducation$41kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kEnvironment$21kArts & Culture$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $295,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetKids Enjoy Exercise Now: $165,000 over 9y, 55% of budgetChildren's Miracle Network: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Health Care Foundation: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKoiula: $20,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHerzl Camp Association Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRibbon of Hope Foundation Incorporated: $14,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of America: $12,730 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRancho Mirage Writers Festival: $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cleveland Clinic Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinneapolis Heart Institute Foundation: $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Scottsdale Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWest Essex First Aid Squad Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWayne State University Foundation: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVerona Rescue Squad Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFlorida Oceanographic Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Baird Foundation IncWI14× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc give?
The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $365,000, out of $381,297 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Health (29%), Youth Development (21%).
Who are The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc ($295k), Kids Enjoy Exercise Now ($165k), Children's Miracle Network ($90k).
Does The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc based?
The American Amusement Machine Charitable Foundation Inc is based in IL.

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 30 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 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 $267k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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