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37th Street Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
63%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$150,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations 37th Street Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving2$225k50%
FY20238$195k63%
FY20227$105k86%
FY202110$135k100%
FY202010$110k100%
FY20195$75k100%
FY20181$75k100%
FY20171$65kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$326kArts & Culture$126kInternational$126kEnvironment$109kFood & Nutrition$92kHealth$78kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kHuman Services$29kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
HI
OK
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget 37th Street Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAntioch College Corporation: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Colorado College: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSeeds of Peace Inc: $41,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $41,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Food Bank Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Great Lakes Historical Society: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHealthy Schools Campaign: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNorth American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGibson Center for Senior Services Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLake Winnipesaukee Association: $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetArtolution Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFoundation for Community Driven Innovation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetKind Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCastle Preservation Society: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelterbox USA Inc: $13,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHuggins Hospital: $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLakes Region Conservation Trust: $13,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEnd 68 Hours of Hunger: $13,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of the Battleship North Carolina Inc: $13,500 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetNourishing Hope: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHawaii Foodbank Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS Network of New Tampa Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPerinatal Quality Foundation: $11,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 28.

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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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to 37th Street Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to 37th Street Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About 37th Street Foundation Inc

How much does 37th Street Foundation Inc give?
37th Street Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does 37th Street Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Arts & Culture (13%), International (13%).
Who are 37th Street Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Antioch College Corporation ($150k), The Colorado College ($150k), Appalachian Mountain Club ($65k).
Does 37th Street Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does 37th Street Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as 37th Street Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is 37th Street Foundation Inc based?
37th Street Foundation Inc 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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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