New Jersey · Private foundation
Blue Guitar 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.
- $503k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Blue Guitar Foundation 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; $1.2M 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 | 4 | $503k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $6.7M | 56% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $1.7M | 69% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $2.1M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $3.4M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $4.6M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $3.2M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $2.4M | 33% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach Jewish Center Inc | $5,010,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Keren or Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Children's Health Defense | $315,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Advancing Jewish Athletics Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| GSD Advisers Inc | $220,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Students Against Antisemitism Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Worldwide Friends Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies | $125,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Helping Israel Fund | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach Jewish Center Inc | $5,010,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Keren or Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Children's Health Defense | $315,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Advancing Jewish Athletics Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| GSD Advisers Inc | $220,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Students Against Antisemitism Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Worldwide Friends Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies | $125,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Helping Israel Fund | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nantucket Community Sailing Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Help a Diabetic Child Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Institute for Black Solidarity With Israel | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Institute for Justice | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Lyme | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of Karen Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sister Seekers Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blue Guitar Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Blue Guitar Foundation
- How much does Blue Guitar Foundation give?
- Blue Guitar Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $502,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Blue Guitar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Education (13%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Blue Guitar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Palm Beach Jewish Center Inc ($5.0M), Keren or Inc ($1.0M), Children's Health Defense ($315k).
- Does Blue Guitar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blue Guitar 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 Blue Guitar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Blue Guitar Foundation based?
- Blue Guitar Foundation is based in NJ.
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