New York · Private foundation
Henry Nias Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 84
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Henry Nias Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23M 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 | 48 | $1.0M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $24M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 84 | $2.3M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $1.3M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 75 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2017 | 72 | $1.1M | 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 Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association | $260,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater | $205,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc | $195,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Team Inc | $170,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Home of Poughkeepsie Inc | $145,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Bronx Documentary Center | $135,000 | 4 | 6% |
| The Talented Teen Club Inc | $135,000 | 4 | 27% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $133,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $127,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Palm Beach School for Autism Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($25M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Henry Nias Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 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: Charles D Fleischman Charitable Trust · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · Frenchmans Reserve Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Ibis Charities Foundation Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Wycliffe Charities Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Henry Nias Foundation Inc
- How much does Henry Nias Foundation Inc give?
- Henry Nias Foundation Inc reported 50 itemized grants totaling $1,084,000, out of $1,230,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 84 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Henry Nias Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (62%), Arts & Culture (5%), Health (4%).
- Who are Henry Nias Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association ($260k), The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater ($205k), Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc ($195k).
- Does Henry Nias Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henry Nias Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Henry Nias Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles D Fleischman Charitable Trust, The Batchelor Foundation Inc, The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc.
- Where is Henry Nias Foundation Inc based?
- Henry Nias Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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