New York · Private foundation
Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc
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.
- $74k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 63 | $71k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $71k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $71k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $67k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $67k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $70k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $64k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Boston University | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Center for Enriched Living Inc | $17,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Reform Temple of Rockland | $15,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Teatown Lake Reservation Inc | $13,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Feeding Westchester Inc | $10,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Hopes Door Inc | $10,500 | 7 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $10,500 | 7 | 0% |
| North Shore Animal League America Inc | $10,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $8,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($186k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc 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: The Chazen Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Rockland Community Foundation · The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc
- How much does Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc give?
- Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc reported 65 grants totaling $73,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Human Services (11%), Animals (10%).
- Who are Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Trustees of Boston University ($21k), The Center for Enriched Living Inc ($17k), Reform Temple of Rockland ($15k).
- Does Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc 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 Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chazen Foundation, Pcsb Community Foundation, Verizon Foundation.
- Where is Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc based?
- Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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