New York · Private foundation
Hess Philanthropic Fund
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.
- $21M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2024
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,850,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 64
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $239M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Hess Philanthropic Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 68 | $21M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $14M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $16M | 34% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $14M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rockefeller University | $19,360,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $14,351,825 | 4 | 2% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $5,380,000 | 4 | 1% |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States | $1,500,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Congregation Emanuel | $1,476,080 | 4 | n/a |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $1,199,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Asia Society | $1,000,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Wnet | $800,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater | $720,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hess Philanthropic Fund 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 · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation · J & Ar Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Hess Philanthropic Fund
- How much does Hess Philanthropic Fund give?
- Hess Philanthropic Fund reported 69 grants totaling $21,330,591 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 64 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Hess Philanthropic Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Education (32%), Health (7%).
- Who are Hess Philanthropic Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Rockefeller University ($19M), Museum of Modern Art ($14M), American Museum of Natural History ($5.4M).
- Does Hess Philanthropic Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hess Philanthropic Fund 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 Hess Philanthropic Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ford Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Hess Philanthropic Fund based?
- Hess Philanthropic Fund is based in NY.
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