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Grand Street 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.

$219k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$6.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Grand Street Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$199k71%
FY20237$218k43%
FY20228$400k50%
FY20219$318k44%
FY202012$293k67%
FY20192$20k100%
FY20183$90k100%
FY20172$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$586kHealth$574kArts & Culture$527kHuman Services$61kPublic Benefit$23kRecreation & Sports$20kFood & Nutrition$20kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Grand Street Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York Shakespeare Festival$400,00040%
Capital Preparatory Schools Inc$300,00033%
Storycorps Inc$62,00030%
Mill River Collaborative Inc$20,00020%
Museum of Modern Art$20,00010%
Rethink Food NYC Inc$20,00010%
Multiplying Good Inc$20,00020%
Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy Inc$15,00030%
Gramercy Park Block Assoc Inc$15,00022%
Pittsburgh Italian Scholarship Fund$10,00019%
Refugee Development Center$10,00012%
American Transparency$10,00010%
Lymphoma Research Foundation$10,00020%
The National Arts Club$10,00010%
Social Tees Animal Rescue Foundation In$8,00012%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$5,00010%
City of Pittsburgh$2,9081n/a
Retreat Inc$1,20010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,0001n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($628k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Grand Street Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $400,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCapital Preparatory Schools Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetStorycorps Inc: $62,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMill River Collaborative Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRethink Food NYC Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMultiplying Good Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlliance for Cancer Gene Therapy Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGramercy Park Block Assoc Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPittsburgh Italian Scholarship Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetRefugee Development Center: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Transparency: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLymphoma Research Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Arts Club: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSocial Tees Animal Rescue Foundation In: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRetreat Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Grand Street Foundation

How much does Grand Street Foundation give?
Grand Street Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $219,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Grand Street Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (31%), Arts & Culture (29%).
Who are Grand Street Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York Shakespeare Festival ($400k), Capital Preparatory Schools Inc ($300k), Storycorps Inc ($62k).
Does Grand Street Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Grand Street 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 Grand Street Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Grand Street Foundation based?
Grand Street Foundation is based in RI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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