New York · Private foundation
Ember 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.
- $19k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,950
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $294k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Ember Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 20 | $19k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $23k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $26k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $19k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $29k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $16k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $27k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $25k | 31% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Synagogue | $24,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Congregation Beit Simchat Torah | $22,463 | 9 | n/a |
| Roundabout Theatre Company Inc | $10,578 | 4 | 0% |
| Manhattan Theatre Club Inc | $10,472 | 5 | 0% |
| New York Shakespeare Festival | $9,095 | 5 | 0% |
| The Second Stage Theatre Inc | $6,250 | 3 | 0% |
| New York Theatre Workshop Inc | $6,125 | 4 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $4,512 | 9 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $4,394 | 8 | 0% |
| Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation | $4,195 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ember 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 · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ember Foundation
- How much does Ember Foundation give?
- Ember Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $19,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ember Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Religion (23%), Health (5%).
- Who are Ember Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Synagogue ($24k), Congregation Beit Simchat Torah ($22k), Roundabout Theatre Company Inc ($11k).
- Does Ember Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ember 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 Ember Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The Shubert Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ember Foundation based?
- Ember Foundation is based in NY.
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