New York · Private foundation
Arts and Letters Foundation Inc
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.
- $949k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Arts and Letters Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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 | 16 | $949k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $852k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $870k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $885k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $730k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $910k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $410k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $210k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $550,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Henry Street Settlement | $475,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $460,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Parrish Art Museum Inc | $400,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Calvary Hospital Inc | $375,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc | $330,000 | 5 | 6% |
| The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Juilliard School | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $220,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Riverside Symphonia Inc | $215,000 | 9 | 16% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($535k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arts and Letters Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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.
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How this is measured
About Arts and Letters Foundation Inc
- How much does Arts and Letters Foundation Inc give?
- Arts and Letters Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $948,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arts and Letters Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (28%), Health (19%).
- Who are Arts and Letters Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Trustees of the Smith College ($550k), Henry Street Settlement ($475k), The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ($460k).
- Does Arts and Letters Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arts and Letters Foundation Inc 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 Arts and Letters Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- Where is Arts and Letters Foundation Inc based?
- Arts and Letters Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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