New York · Public charity
Encourage Kids Foundation
Making hospitals a better place to get better by helping seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities.
- $263k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $241k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 68% of the organizations Encourage Kids Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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 | 20 | $241k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $253k | 68% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $221k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $37k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $352k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $348k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mount Sinai Hospital | $215,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $153,260 | 5 | 0% |
| Children of Bellevue Inc | $122,340 | 5 | 7% |
| The Rwj University Hospital Foundation Inc | $75,500 | 5 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco | $68,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $65,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Montefiore Medical Center | $44,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Brooklyn Hospital Center | $40,003 | 3 | 0% |
| Blythedale Children's Hospital | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Albany Med Health System | $33,280 | 1 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Encourage Kids 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: Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Child's Play · American Cancer Society Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation · The Toy Foundation Inc · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Reach Out and Read Inc · American Heart Association Inc · American Academy of Pediatrics
How this is measured
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About Encourage Kids Foundation
- How much does Encourage Kids Foundation give?
- Encourage Kids Foundation reported 20 itemized grants totaling $240,500, out of $262,882 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Encourage Kids Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (98%), Arts & Culture (1%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
- Who are Encourage Kids Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Mount Sinai Hospital ($215k), New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($153k), Children of Bellevue Inc ($122k).
- Does Encourage Kids Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Encourage Kids Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc, Child's Play, American Cancer Society Inc.
- Where is Encourage Kids Foundation based?
- Encourage Kids Foundation is based in NY.
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