New York · Private foundation
Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust
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.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 70
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $274k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 16 | $21k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $20k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $22k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $16k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $15k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $440 | 43% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $1k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 70 | $11k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Perlman Music Program Inc | $11,350 | 6 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $8,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Diabetes Association | $4,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $4,052 | 4 | 0% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sierra Club | $3,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Ocean Conservancy | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Long Island Cares Inc | $2,520 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Mutual of America Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust
- How much does Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust give?
- Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust reported 16 grants totaling $20,510 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), International (15%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Perlman Music Program Inc ($11k), Birthright Israel Foundation ($11k), Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ($9k).
- Does Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust 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 Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Mutual of America Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust based?
- Gerald & Carol Halpern Foundation Trust is based in NY.
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