New York · Private foundation
Driver 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.
- $286k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Driver Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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 | 37 | $280k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $220k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $153k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $170k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $150k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $178k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $148k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthology Film Archives | $91,725 | 7 | 2% |
| The Pierpont Morgan Library | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pace University | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Documentary Educational Resources Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Youth & Family Counseling Service Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $14,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Film Forum Inc | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Trust for the British Library | $12,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($935k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Driver Family 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: American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Driver Family Foundation
- How much does Driver Family Foundation give?
- Driver Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $286,141 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Driver Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Religion (18%), Health (18%).
- Who are Driver Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Anthology Film Archives ($92k), The Pierpont Morgan Library ($50k), Pace University ($40k).
- Does Driver Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Driver 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 Driver Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Network for Good, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Driver Family Foundation based?
- Driver Family Foundation is based in NY.
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