New York · Private foundation
Acquavella Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Acquavella Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $1.0M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $1.2M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.3M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $1.4M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $1.4M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $2.0M | 34% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $1.6M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $785k | 54% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlem Children's Zone Inc | $1,244,520 | 5 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University | $1,077,500 | 9 | 0% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $760,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St George's School | $580,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $505,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Convent of the Sacred Heart | $483,999 | 9 | n/a |
| The Pierpont Morgan Library | $394,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Boys' Club of New York | $212,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Foundation for Italian Art and Culture- | $200,000 | 8 | 12% |
Show all 84 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Acquavella Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ag Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Robertson Foundation · Earle I Mack Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Fuhrman Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Khoury Foundation
How this is measured
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About Acquavella Family Foundation
- How much does Acquavella Family Foundation give?
- Acquavella Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $1,036,049 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Acquavella Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (25%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Acquavella Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Harlem Children's Zone Inc ($1.2M), Wake Forest University ($1.1M), New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($760k).
- Does Acquavella Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Acquavella Family 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 Acquavella Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Ag Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Acquavella Family Foundation based?
- Acquavella Family Foundation is based in NY.
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