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The Aunt Marlene Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Total assets, FY2022
$72k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations The Aunt Marlene Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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
FY20222$55k50%
FY20211$50k0%
FY20203$60k0%
FY20197$68k86%
FY20185$66k100%
FY20176$31kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Science & Tech$260kEducation$29kHuman Services$16kRecreation & Sports$5kInternational$5kCivil Rights$2kReligion$2kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Aunt Marlene Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIF Charities: $6,050 over 2y, 21% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSyrian American Medical Society Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYWCA Metropolitan Chicago: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mend a Heart Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDaisie Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 8.

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About The Aunt Marlene Foundation

How much does The Aunt Marlene Foundation give?
The Aunt Marlene Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $55,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Aunt Marlene Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Science & Tech (79%), Education (9%), Human Services (5%).
Who are The Aunt Marlene Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ($260k), Big Shoulders Fund ($17k), IF Charities ($6k).
Does The Aunt Marlene Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Aunt Marlene 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.
Where is The Aunt Marlene Foundation based?
The Aunt Marlene Foundation 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 18 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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