New York · Private foundation
Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 87
- Grants FY2024
- 88
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $421,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 97
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $97M
- 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 Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $691k 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 | 71 | $2.3M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 88 | $2.1M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $2.6M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $8.3M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 97 | $3.0M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 88 | $3.4M | 45% |
| FY2018 | 94 | $3.3M | 45% |
| FY2017 | 91 | $3.5M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seward House Museum | $6,826,221 | 7 | 49% |
| Merry-Go-Round Playhouse Inc | $1,059,677 | 3 | 13% |
| Keuka College | $1,035,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Wells College | $858,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center | $689,000 | 6 | 18% |
| University of Rochester | $563,000 | 8 | 0% |
| St Lawrence University | $505,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges | $504,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Skidmore College | $425,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Syracuse University | $415,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 221 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 101 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 195 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.
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How this is measured
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About Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc
- How much does Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc give?
- Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc reported 87 grants totaling $2,496,660 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 97 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Education (31%), Health (6%).
- Who are Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Seward House Museum ($6.8M), Merry-Go-Round Playhouse Inc ($1.1M), Keuka College ($1.0M).
- Does Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central New York Community Foundation Inc, The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc, De French Foundation Inc.
- Where is Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc based?
- Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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