New York · Private foundation
Freston Family Foundation
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.
- $233k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $312k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Freston Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 11 | $213k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $218k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $93k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $511k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $336k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $152k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New America Foundation | $750,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The ONE Campaign | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Eisner Scholars | $110,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Turquoise Mountain Foundation (Us) | $45,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Beyond Type 1 | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Every Mother Counts | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade | $15,010 | 3 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New America Foundation | $750,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The ONE Campaign | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Eisner Scholars | $110,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Turquoise Mountain Foundation (Us) | $45,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Beyond Type 1 | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Every Mother Counts | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade | $15,010 | 3 | 2% |
| Melanoma Know More | $15,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Sesame Workshop | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Kristen Ann Carr Fund | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sag Harbor Partnership Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Zarif Design Corporation | $3,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Sam Cullen Memorial Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The Walden Woods Project | $1,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Women for Afghan Women Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Sag Harbor Fire Department Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Freston 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.
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How this is measured
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About Freston Family Foundation
- How much does Freston Family Foundation give?
- Freston Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $232,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Freston Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (46%), International (24%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Freston Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: New America Foundation ($750k), The ONE Campaign ($300k), Young Eisner Scholars ($110k).
- Does Freston Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Freston Family 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 Freston Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Freston Family Foundation based?
- Freston Family Foundation is based in NY.
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