New York · Private foundation
The Asen 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.
- $69k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $81k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Asen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 15 | $68k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $39k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $61k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $157k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $160k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $192k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $650 | 0% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $195k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muso Inc | $205,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Big Life Foundation USA | $100,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Paris Review Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wildarkorg Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| LJMN Media Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Housatonic Valley Association Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American Folk Art Museum | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Asen 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 William and Mary Greve Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bernhill Fund · Akc Fund Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The Asen Foundation
- How much does The Asen Foundation give?
- The Asen Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $69,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Asen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Environment (19%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are The Asen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Muso Inc ($205k), Big Life Foundation USA ($100k), The Paris Review Foundation Inc ($100k).
- Does The Asen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Asen 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 Asen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William and Mary Greve Foundation Inc, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Asen Foundation based?
- The Asen Foundation is based in NY.
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