New Jersey · Private foundation
Fund for Individual Potential
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.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Fund for Individual Potential funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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 | 18 | $3.8M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $3.0M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $3.1M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $3.3M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $2.3M | 12% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $2.1M | 41% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brewster Academy | $12,178,774 | 9 | 8% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $3,125,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges | $1,975,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lafayette College | $1,700,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $450,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Monmouth Medical Center Foundation Inc | $325,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Habcore Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Lunch Break Inc | $290,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Allen-Stevenson School | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rising Treetops at Oakhurst | $225,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brewster Academy | $12,178,774 | 9 | 8% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $3,125,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges | $1,975,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lafayette College | $1,700,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $450,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Monmouth Medical Center Foundation Inc | $325,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Habcore Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Lunch Break Inc | $290,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Allen-Stevenson School | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rising Treetops at Oakhurst | $225,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Riverdale Country School Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rfh High School Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 80% |
| Rumson Boat Race Inc | $90,000 | 2 | n/a |
| CPC Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 4% |
| The Friends of Green Chimneys | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Count Basie Theatre Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $1,015 | 2 | 0% |
| Free to Smile Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fund for Individual Potential supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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.
Open a dossier: The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Clare and Robert Gray Charitable Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Fund for Individual Potential
- How much does Fund for Individual Potential give?
- Fund for Individual Potential reported 18 grants totaling $3,840,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fund for Individual Potential fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (67%), Health (21%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are Fund for Individual Potential's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Brewster Academy ($12M), New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($3.1M), Hobart and William Smith Colleges ($2.0M).
- Does Fund for Individual Potential fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fund for Individual Potential 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 Fund for Individual Potential?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation, Oceanfirst Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Fund for Individual Potential based?
- Fund for Individual Potential is based in NJ.
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