About Aam Foundation
The AAM Foundation is a highly concentrated funder that directs the vast majority of its resources to a single mission-driven program, the Freedom Employability Academy, supporting education and workforce-readiness activities. Outside of that primary commitment it makes occasional, much smaller gifts to spiritual/retreat organizations, indicating a secondary interest in spirituality or contemplative programs. Grants are large, infrequent, and focused rather than broadly distributed across many organizations.
Focus Areas
Freedom Employability Academy — workforce-readiness and vocational educationSupport for arts/education programs tied to the AAM Foundation (programmatic operating support)Spirituality and meditation retreat center support (e.g., Blue Mountain Center of Meditation)
Who They Fund
homeless familiesfamilies with children experiencing homelessnessclients of faith-based organizations seeking spiritual support
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated giving: very few grants overall, dominated by multiple large gifts to one recurring grantee/program (repeat major funding to an in-house or closely affiliated academy), with occasional single-purpose grants to unrelated spiritual organizations.
About Aam Foundation
Aam Foundation’s recent giving is dominated by one internal program: the Freedom Employability Academy, which received the foundation’s three largest reported grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Those awards totaled more than $26 million across the period and point to a sustained commitment to education and workforce-readiness rather than broad, distributed grantmaking. The foundation also makes smaller grants to a limited set of organizations, including spiritual retreat and eldercare groups in California. That pattern makes the foundation unusually concentrated. Alongside the academy funding, it has supported the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in Tomales for spirituality-related work, and it has made smaller gifts to community organizations such as Homeward Bound in Novato. The recent grants list shows a mix of education, spirituality, and direct-service support, but the scale is heavily weighted toward the academy program. The grant record also shows that Aam Foundation funds within California and that its giving includes both large programmatic support and small, one-off awards. For researchers, the defining feature is not breadth but concentration: a single education-focused initiative receives the overwhelming share of capital, while a narrow cluster of smaller grants fills out the portfolio.
What Aam Foundation Funds
Education and workforce readiness are the foundation’s core focus. In 2025, it gave $10,500,000 to Aam Foundation - Freedom Employability Academy for education, following $9,009,965 in 2024 and $6,550,000 in 2023 to the same program. A second area is spirituality. The foundation awarded $1,018,000 in 2025 to Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in Tomales, with additional grants of $108,000 in 2024 and $88,200 in 2023 for the same spiritual purpose. It also makes smaller direct-service grants. One example is $5,000 to Homeward Bound in Novato for emergency shelter for homeless families. Smaller eldercare gifts appear as well, including support to Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly and Partnerships for Change in San Francisco.
How Aam Foundation Gives
The recent grant size distribution is highly skewed: the 25th percentile is $25,800, the median is $98,100, and the 75th percentile is $4,939,500. That spread reflects a portfolio with a few very large awards and several much smaller ones. The foundation’s recent records also show repeated support across multiple years for the same recipients, especially the Freedom Employability Academy and Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. Most of the giving appears to be programmatic support rather than a mix of many unrelated awards. Aam Foundation is a private foundation, and it also funds individuals.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$27.3M
Total Assets
$344.4M
Total Revenue
$300.8M
Total Expenses
$12.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $26K and $4.9M, with a median of $98K.
25th Percentile
$26K
Median
$98K
75th Percentile
$4.9M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
About 100% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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