Tennessee · Private foundation
The Aslan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $918k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2024
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,400
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 79
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $122M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations The Aslan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 54 | $918k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 79 | $1.1M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $1.3M | 64% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $1.2M | 51% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $859k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $1.7M | 60% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $1.7M | 52% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $2.5M | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young-Williams Animal Center of East Ten | $2,277,240 | 8 | 8% |
| Big Ears Festival | $1,780,832 | 8 | 29% |
| Knoxville Museum of Art | $1,184,500 | 8 | 22% |
| Knoxville Symphony Society Incorporated | $603,438 | 7 | 5% |
| Knoxville Opera Company | $479,258 | 6 | 10% |
| Interfaith Health Center | $252,442 | 6 | 2% |
| Free Medical Clinic of America | $225,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Knox Heritage Inc | $206,190 | 7 | 10% |
| Ijams Nature Center Inc | $190,607 | 7 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Vall | $107,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 159 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Aslan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: East Tennessee Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · The Boyd Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Akima Club Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · The Melrose Foundation · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Aslan Foundation
- How much does The Aslan Foundation give?
- The Aslan Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $917,911 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Aslan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Animals (21%), Public Benefit (14%).
- Who are The Aslan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Young-Williams Animal Center of East Ten ($2.3M), Big Ears Festival ($1.8M), Knoxville Museum of Art ($1.2M).
- Does The Aslan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Aslan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Aslan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, Haslam Family Foundation Inc, The Boyd Foundation.
- Where is The Aslan Foundation based?
- The Aslan Foundation is based in TN.
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