· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $2,950 |
| CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH | $1,500 |
| WESTSIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $1,000 |
| HUNGER FREE NY CITY | $1,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $1,000 |
| GODS LOVE WE DELIVER | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $1,000 |
| WHY HUNGER | $1,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $1,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| HUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK | $1,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $950 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $600 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% 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
Backed again, and grew
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC5× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +35%
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL5× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +33%
- TSTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- MSMOUNT SINAIone grant, 2021 · $3k
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +22%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
Miami new drama is a nonprofit professional theater company based in miami beach, florida, dedicated to the development and production of new theatrical work and to theater-making as a means of social engagement, cultural conversation, and…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
How this is measured
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE DRAMA LEAGUE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ember Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ember Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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