New York · Private foundation
Fenster Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $66k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $35k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $164k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Fenster Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 23 | $35k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $24k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $28k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $37k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary | $14,318 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of Yad Eliezer | $6,900 | 4 | 0% |
| Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Yad Sarah Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Yeshiva of Far Rockaway | $4,800 | 4 | n/a |
| Rivkah Laufer Bikur Cholim | $4,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Beis Midrash of Queens | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| THE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Keren Ami Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fenster Family 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation · Cd Foundation · Yisroel Aryeh and Leib Foundation · Md Friedman Family Foundation · The Levitin Family Charitable Trust · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc
How this is measured
About Fenster Family Foundation
- How much does Fenster Family Foundation give?
- Fenster Family Foundation reported 23 itemized grants totaling $34,535, out of $66,085 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Fenster Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (34%), International (7%), Health (4%).
- Who are Fenster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary ($14k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($8k), American Friends of Yad Eliezer ($7k).
- Does Fenster Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fenster Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fenster Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn.
- Where is Fenster Family Foundation based?
- Fenster Family Foundation is based in NY.
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