AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

EIN 341747398 · Donor-advised fund program as reported on Form 990 Schedule D, fiscal year 2023.

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DAF assets
$7.10B
at fiscal year end
Grants out
$1.23B
from DAF accounts
Contributions in
$1.17B
received into DAFs
Payout rate
17.3%
median is 12.5%
Accounts
14,706
funds held at year end
Average account
$483K
assets per fund

At 17.3%, this sponsor paid out above the 12.5% median for sponsors holding more than $10 million.

DAF assets by year

$3.50B
FY2019
$4.64B
FY2020
$7.06B
FY2021
$6.23B
FY2022
$7.10B
FY2023

Grants paid by year

$410.5M
FY2019
$512.5M
FY2020
$775.5M
FY2021
$994.0M
FY2022
$1.23B
FY2023

A missing year means no return for that year has been released yet, not that the organization was inactive. Years marked fall in the 2020–21 pandemic giving surge, when contributions into donor-advised funds rose sharply across the sector; treat them as an unusual period rather than a baseline.

Grant disclosure

Itemized 52,259 grant lines totalling $3.77B across 2019–2024 — $72K per line.

$888.2M of this sponsor’s grants went to other DAF sponsors — 24% of its itemized grantmaking. Money moved between sponsors is reported as a grant, but it has not yet reached a working charity. This total counts only organizations whose donor-advised fund program is their primary activity, so grants to universities and hospitals that happen to run a DAF on the side are excluded.

Largest reported recipients

Organizations receiving the most from this sponsor across 2019–2024, as itemized on Schedule I. Only grants above $5,000 must be listed.

RecipientTotal 2019–2024
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund runs a DAF programEIN 110303001 OH$169.1M
National Philanthropic Trust runs a DAF programEIN 237825575 PA$154.8M
Impactassets Inc7315 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 1000W Bethesda Md 20814 runs a DAF programEIN 262048480 MD$112.5M
Mullens Area Public LibraryEIN 000000000 WV$112.2M
Independent Charitable Gift Fund runs a DAF programEIN 812576201 OH$99.4M
Eames InstituteEIN 833403946 CA$73.6M
Schwab Charitable Fund runs a DAF programEIN 311640316 FL$68.0M
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program - A1064887 runs a DAF programEIN 232888152 RI$65.1M
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day SaintsEIN 237300405 UT$51.7M
Dechomai Asset Trust runs a DAF programEIN 260724604 FL$27.8M
Bradley Impact Fund Inc runs a DAF programEIN 454678325 WI$26.0M
The Ocean Cleanup North Pacific FoundationEIN 815132355 NY$25.1M
Barack Obama FoundationEIN 464950751 IL$21.2M
Jdrf InternationalEIN 231907729 IL$19.8M
Stanford University runs a DAF programEIN 941156365 CA$19.8M

How these figures are calculated: methodology and disclosures. Source: IRS Form 990 e-file XML for fiscal year 2023, via the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Payout rate is DAF grants divided by DAF assets at year end. Recipient totals combine tax years 2019–2024 where filings are available. IRS release and parsing lag means recent years are incomplete for many organizations — NCCS advises treating the most recent year in the panel as partial.