New York · Private foundation
Elkes Foundation III
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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2024
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 80
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Elkes Foundation III funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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 | 80 | $1.0M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $970k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $1.1M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $1.0M | 55% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $1.0M | 84% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $424k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc | $475,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Grassroot Soccer Inc | $272,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The James Beard Foundation Inc | $197,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Parentchild Inc | $160,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Mascoma Valley Preservation | $156,000 | 3 | 24% |
| Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc | $155,305 | 6 | 6% |
| Bernie's Book Bank | $150,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Teatown Lake Reservation Inc | $144,400 | 5 | 1% |
| New London Barn Playhouse Inc | $120,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Writing Downtown Inc | $105,000 | 3 | 18% |
Show all 132 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Elkes Foundation III supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 119 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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · St Faith's House Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Mbia Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Elkes Foundation III
- How much does Elkes Foundation III give?
- Elkes Foundation III reported 80 grants totaling $1,045,676 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 80 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Elkes Foundation III fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Education (16%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Elkes Foundation III's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc ($475k), Grassroot Soccer Inc ($273k), The James Beard Foundation Inc ($198k).
- Does Elkes Foundation III fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elkes Foundation III 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 Elkes Foundation III?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Elkes Foundation III based?
- Elkes Foundation III is based in NY.
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