· Private foundation
The Asen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LJMN MEDIA INC | $10,000 |
| HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CAMPHILL VILLAGE USA | $2,500 |
| WORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NY HOT JAZZ CAMP CORP | $2,500 |
| FISHES AND LOAVES PANTRY | $2,000 |
| CANAAN COMMUNITY TRUST | $2,000 |
| THE CANAAN FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| TIERRA MADRE HORSE & HUMAN SANCTUAR | $2,000 |
| NEW CITY PARKS | $1,000 |
| NORTHWEST CT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GREAT MOUNTAIN FOREST CORP | $1,000 |
| BOMB MAGAZINE | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MIMUSO INC4× · 2017–2021 · $205k · revenue +209%
- FPFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +49%
- BLBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA5× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- TPTHE PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +119%
- WIWILDARKORG INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -96%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The primary mission is to encourage the advancement of freedom of speech and the press, study the scientific research in all related fields, promote education and to assist those involved in all endeavors relating to the dissemination of…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Great Mountain Forest Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MUSO INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds WILDARKORG INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
- Who funds WORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL VILLAGE USA INC ↗
- Who funds Fishes and Loaves Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds LJMN Media Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFEDIRECT INC ↗
- Who funds DKMS ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CANAAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Great Mountain Forest Corporation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Asen Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- Civic Life Project Inc — 7% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.