New York · Private foundation
Distracted Globe 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $153,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Distracted Globe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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 | 64 | $1.2M | 56% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $538k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $471k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $448k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $320k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $395k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 41 | $338k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 52nd Street Project Inc | $270,000 | 7 | 4% |
| La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc | $163,000 | 7 | 1% |
| artEquity Community | $153,000 | 1 | 46% |
| New York Theatre Workshop Inc | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Safe Space Pictures Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Commonweal | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $99,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc | $90,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Notch Theatre Company | $85,000 | 3 | 13% |
Show all 158 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Distracted Globe Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597 · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Tides Foundation · The Map Fund Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008
How this is measured
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About Distracted Globe Foundation
- How much does Distracted Globe Foundation give?
- Distracted Globe Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $1,181,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Distracted Globe Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (75%), Youth Development (5%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Distracted Globe Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The 52nd Street Project Inc ($270k), La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc ($163k), artEquity Community ($153k).
- Does Distracted Globe Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Distracted Globe 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 Distracted Globe Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597, The Shubert Foundation Inc, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc.
- Where is Distracted Globe Foundation based?
- Distracted Globe Foundation is based in NY.
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