California · Private foundation
The Auen 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 49
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Auen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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 | 50 | $1.1M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $879k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $836k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $837k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coronado Hospital Foundation | $350,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $198,000 | 3 | 0% |
| AIDS Assistance Program | $160,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Palm Springs International Film Society | $150,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Alzheimers Coachella Valley | $140,000 | 4 | 8% |
| The Ranch Recovery Centers Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower | $130,000 | 5 | 2% |
| DAP Health Inc | $130,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Well in the Desert Inc | $120,000 | 4 | 13% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $118,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($624k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Auen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · Charity Works · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · The Galen Family Foundation · Desert Community Foundation
How this is measured
About The Auen Foundation
- How much does The Auen Foundation give?
- The Auen Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $1,064,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Auen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (43%), Human Services (19%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are The Auen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Coronado Hospital Foundation ($350k), Eisenhower Medical Center ($198k), AIDS Assistance Program ($160k).
- Does The Auen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Auen 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 Auen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include HN and Frances C Berger Foundation, Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc, Inland Empire Community Foundation.
- Where is The Auen Foundation based?
- The Auen Foundation is based in CA.
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