New York · Private foundation
Gray 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.
- $64M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 132
- Grants FY2025
- 138
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 138
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $83M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Gray Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 | 126 | $46M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 138 | $26M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 126 | $26M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 133 | $25M | 86% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $11M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYC Kids Rise Inc | $25,063,300 | 5 | 24% |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $25,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $7,306,453 | 4 | 2% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $6,580,004 | 4 | 0% |
| New York University | $4,333,334 | 3 | 0% |
| Montefiore Medical Center | $3,450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Village Academies Network Inc | $2,300,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Asphalt Green Inc | $2,200,000 | 4 | 3% |
| John Jay College Foundation Inc | $1,925,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,665,107 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 200 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gray Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 189 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Altman Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Blackstone Charitable Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Heckscher Foundation for Children · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Tiger Foundation
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Gray Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Gray Foundation
- How much does Gray Foundation give?
- Gray Foundation reported 132 grants totaling $64,222,440 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 138 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Gray Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Health (12%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Gray Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: NYC Kids Rise Inc ($25M), American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ($25M), United Negro College Fund Inc ($7.3M).
- Does Gray Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gray 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 Gray Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Robin Hood Foundation.
- Where is Gray Foundation based?
- Gray Foundation is based in NY.
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