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.

Esther Koven Foundation Inc

Esther Koven Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$172kHealth$161kEducation$156kHuman Services$61kPhilanthropy$58kArts & Culture$45kHousing & Shelter$42kFood & Nutrition$39kOther$0

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k12 grants · $31k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL	$50,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND	$10,000
NATIONAL NAVY SEAL MUSEUM	$10,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH	$5,000
HACKLEY SCHOOL	$5,000
OPFOB	$5,000
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE	$5,000
BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS	$3,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM	$2,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT	$1,000
JCC ON THE HUDSON	$1,000
DAV CHARITABLE SERVICE TRUST	$1,000
BLUFFTON SELF HELP	$1,000
HAMILTON-MADISON HOUSE	$1,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$635k · 62 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$635k

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

Still filing today

79%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
8× · 2018–2025 · $83k · revenue +35%
HS
HACKLEY SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +43%
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +63%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INC
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -46%
TA
TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +8%
DR
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -1%

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.

04Its field

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.

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

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…

Arts & Culture

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights

New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health

Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health

Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc

To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.

Human Services

Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc

Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…

Human Services

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York City Rescue Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 89 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/67

Grantees still filing

45/67

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$303,240International$185,000Health$182,465Human Services$57,023Education$57,000Philanthropy$54,500Arts & Culture$27,920

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY17.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Esther Koven Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Esther Koven Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home