New York · Private foundation
Esther Koven Foundation Inc
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.
- $101k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Esther Koven Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 14 | $91k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $84k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $89k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $69k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $83k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $89k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $74k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $69k | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Jewish Health | $82,615 | 8 | 0% |
| Rye Country Day School | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hackley School | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Friends of Green Chimneys | $37,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Covenant House | $28,384 | 8 | 0% |
| Transplant Support Organization | $20,000 | 4 | 89% |
| Liveonny Inc | $18,650 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $14,500 | 9 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($92k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Esther Koven Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · East Coast Energy Foundation Inc · Clune Cares Foundation Inc · Tiger Baron Foundation Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation
How this is measured
About Esther Koven Foundation Inc
- How much does Esther Koven Foundation Inc give?
- Esther Koven Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $101,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Esther Koven Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (20%), Health (19%), Education (18%).
- Who are Esther Koven Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Jewish Health ($83k), Rye Country Day School ($50k), Hackley School ($50k).
- Does Esther Koven Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Esther Koven Foundation Inc 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 Esther Koven Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is Esther Koven Foundation Inc based?
- Esther Koven Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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