New York · Private foundation
Fordham Street Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Fordham Street Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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 | 50 | $1.0M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $1.0M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $920k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $880k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $970k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $840k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $880k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $725k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edge Foundation | $315,000 | 9 | 8% |
| East African Community Services | $295,000 | 8 | 2% |
| BELONG Partners | $295,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Rainier Scholars | $295,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Let's Get Ready Inc | $295,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Partners in School Innovation | $275,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Reader to Reader Inc | $255,000 | 8 | 11% |
| George Jackson Academy | $230,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Technology Access Foundation | $230,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Family Life Academy Charter Schools | $180,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fordham Street 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: School's Out Washington · Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Discuren Foundation · Medina Foundation · United Way of King County · Pwc Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation
How this is measured
About Fordham Street Foundation
- How much does Fordham Street Foundation give?
- Fordham Street Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $1,045,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fordham Street Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Youth Development (11%), Science & Tech (7%).
- Who are Fordham Street Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Edge Foundation ($315k), East African Community Services ($295k), BELONG Partners ($295k).
- Does Fordham Street Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fordham Street Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fordham Street Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include School's Out Washington, Seattle Foundation, Gates Foundation.
- Where is Fordham Street Foundation based?
- Fordham Street Foundation is based in NY.
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