New Jersey · Private foundation
David & Esther Muschel Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $70k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $17,743
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 59
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations David & Esther Muschel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 45 | $70k | 51% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $111k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $84k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $105k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $84k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $92k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $130k | 74% |
| FY2017 | 45 | $113k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Ahavath Torah | $124,430 | 8 | n/a |
| Sharsheret Inc | $78,273 | 8 | 1% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $51,105 | 7 | 0% |
| Ramaz School | $36,790 | 7 | n/a |
| Boca Jewish Center | $18,120 | 4 | n/a |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $17,674 | 3 | 0% |
| Bl Girls Town Jerusalem Inc | $11,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Iyun Haparsha Inc | $9,781 | 4 | 0% |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc | $7,460 | 4 | 0% |
| Bris Avrohom Inc | $7,027 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 130 recipients with no EIN on record ($307k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David & Esther Muschel 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Cross River Community Foundation · The Blumenfeld Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation · M D Katz Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore
How this is measured
About David & Esther Muschel Foundation
- How much does David & Esther Muschel Foundation give?
- David & Esther Muschel Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $69,880 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does David & Esther Muschel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Education (13%), Health (13%).
- Who are David & Esther Muschel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Congregation Ahavath Torah ($124k), Sharsheret Inc ($78k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($51k).
- Does David & Esther Muschel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David & Esther Muschel 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 David & Esther Muschel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, Cross River Community Foundation.
- Where is David & Esther Muschel Foundation based?
- David & Esther Muschel Foundation is based in NJ.
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