New York · Private foundation
Endeavor Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $97,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,147,029
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $547M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Endeavor Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 55 | $14M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $18M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $16M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $14M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $11M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $7.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $20,499,899 | 6 | 1% |
| Sterling College | $8,061,359 | 5 | 47% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $4,750,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Wells College | $2,550,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Elon University | $2,400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Protect Democracy Project | $2,100,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Gettysburg College | $1,576,014 | 1 | 1% |
| Free Speech for People Inc | $1,153,272 | 5 | 9% |
| Franklin & Marshall College | $1,141,118 | 2 | 0% |
| Values United | $1,101,996 | 6 | 16% |
Show all 97 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Endeavor Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 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: Impactassetsinc · Sterling College · Boston Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Tides Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Ibm International Foundation
How this is measured
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About Endeavor Foundation Inc
- How much does Endeavor Foundation Inc give?
- Endeavor Foundation Inc reported 59 grants totaling $16,174,301 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Endeavor Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Science & Tech (11%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Endeavor Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: President and Fellows of Middlebury College ($20M), Sterling College ($8.1M), William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc ($4.8M).
- Does Endeavor Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Endeavor Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Endeavor Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Sterling College, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Endeavor Foundation Inc based?
- Endeavor Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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