New York · Private foundation
Four Friends Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Four Friends Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $455k 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 | 37 | $1.2M | 59% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $925k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $534k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $1.2M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $1.2M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $370k | 41% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $285k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $2,750,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Insideout Literary Arts Project | $249,400 | 5 | 4% |
| Urban Arts Partnership | $178,200 | 2 | 1% |
| Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls Inc | $175,600 | 2 | 17% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service | $125,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Marian and Edward Macdowell Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Film at Lincoln Center Inc | $93,346 | 6 | 0% |
| Chrysalis | $90,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Artsconnection Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Four Friends 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: Pinkerton Foundation · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Altman Foundation · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · Jewish Communal Fund · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Keith Haring Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Four Friends Foundation
- How much does Four Friends Foundation give?
- Four Friends Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,226,229 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Four Friends Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (44%), Arts & Culture (27%), Education (7%).
- Who are Four Friends Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Michigan ($2.8M), Insideout Literary Arts Project ($249k), Urban Arts Partnership ($178k).
- Does Four Friends Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Four Friends Foundation 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 Four Friends Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pinkerton Foundation, The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is Four Friends Foundation based?
- Four Friends Foundation is based in NY.
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