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High Five 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.

$396k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
116
Grants FY2025
83
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$62,500
Organizations funded a year
70 to 85
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
16
Total assets, FY2025
$6.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations High Five Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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
FY2025still arriving86$332k41%
FY202483$255k43%
FY202370$210k31%
FY202285$278k47%
FY202172$179k58%
FY202071$153kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$599kReligion$334kPhilanthropy$244kHuman Services$233kHealth$96kRecreation & Sports$86kArts & Culture$51kCommunity Improvement$36kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MN
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 130 grantees
All grantees of High Five Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc$329,25062%
Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc$220,05961%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$195,87560%
City Parks Foundation Inc$50,00040%
Syracuse University$45,00040%
New York University$30,00030%
Arbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Rising$27,50060%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$21,10050%
Morgan Pressel Foundation Inc$17,20061%
Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc$15,00060%
Equal Justice Initiative$15,00010%
The Immokalee Foundation Inc$8,75030%
American Folk Art Museum$8,00060%
International Sports and Music Project Inc$8,00033%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$8,00050%
Pink Aid Inc$6,41550%
Nicholas Center Ltd$6,25050%
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation$5,75050%
Peter Michael Foundation$5,62511%
Fund Texas Choice$5,00020%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$4,00050%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$3,95030%
Friends of Old Westbury Inc$3,75025%
The Mount Sinai Hospital$3,37540%
Abortion Care Network$3,00010%
Breakthrough T1d$3,00020%
City Harvest Inc$3,00030%
American Friends of Natal Inc$3,00010%
Children's Tumor Foundation$2,95030%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$2,75020%
Lincoln Memorial University$2,50010%
Interstitial Cystitis Association of America Inc$2,50010%
International Women's Media Foundation$2,50010%
Smile Train Inc$2,45060%
Stern Center for Language and Learning$2,12530%
The Divided Sky Foundation Corporation$2,00010%
Alk Positive Inc$2,00020%
Brooklyn Public Library$1,50020%
Central Synagogue$1,5005n/a
American Foreign Policy Council$1,2501n/a
Loni & Jeff Rush Family Foundation$1,25010%
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network$1,25010%
Blue Heron Foundation$1,12540%
Dartmouth Dragon Foundation Inc$1,00011%
Palm Beach Dramaworks Inc$1,00040%
Whitney Museum of American Art$84540%
Parkinsons Unity Walk Inc$75020%
Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc$72030%
Charley's Fund Inc$70030%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$62510%
Catholic Charities Diocese of Brooklyn$6251n/a
Wags and Walks$62520%
Palm Beach Civic Association Inc$60040%
Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation$57520%
American Institute for Mental Imagery$5504n/a
Norton Museum of Art Inc$52540%
African Community and Conservation Foundation Inc$50010%
Breakthrough New York Inc$50010%
Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation Inc$5001n/a
Kaplan Educational Foundation$50010%
Hearing the Ovarian Cancer Whisper Inc$50020%
Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando Inc$50010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$50020%
Cure Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$50010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$50030%
Consumer Reports Inc$45050%
Association to Benefit Children$45030%
Florida Sheriffs Association Inc$40040%
Wall Street Synagogue Inc$4004n/a
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association$37510%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$35020%
The Pierpont Morgan Library$32530%
American Jewish Committee$30030%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$30030%
Friends of the Jewish Chapel Inc$30030%
Friends of the High Line Inc$30030%
National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation Inc$30030%
Save Ellis Island Inc$30030%
The Jewish Museum$30030%
Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Designs Inc$25010%
El Education Inc$25020%
Special Operations Warrior Foundation$2501n/a
The New York Center for Children$25010%
Central Fund of Israel$25010%
Yeshiva University$25010%
All Stars Project Inc$25010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc$25010%
Wheaton College$25010%
The Teddy Balkind Charitable Foundation$25010%
Old Westbury Gardens Inc$25020%
Union Settlement Association Inc$25020%
Brain Tumor Foundation$25010%
Monmouth University Inc$25010%
American Brain Foundation$25010%
Washington Institute for Near East Policy$25010%
The Lake Placid Sinfonietta Inc$25010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$2501n/a
Folds of Honor Foundation$22520%
Special Olympics New York Inc$22520%
Friends of Duane Park Inc$20020%
Anti-Defamation League$20020%
Hanley Foundation$20020%
The Center for Jewish History Inc$20020%
Hatzalah of the Rockaways & Nassau County Inc$20020%
Play for Pink Inc$19520%
Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation$15010%
Morselife Health System Inc$12510%
Manhattan School of Music$12510%
Fiver Children's Foundation Inc$12510%
America Gives Inc$12510%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$12510%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$12510%
Ensemble Studio Theatre Inc$12510%
Moca Ct Inc$12510%
West Side Center for Community Life$12510%
The Valerie Fund$12510%
The Spence School$12510%
Cato Institute$10010%
South Florida Sanctuary Inc$10010%
Public Broadcasting Service$10010%
Seeds of Peace Inc$10010%
Museum of American Finance$10010%
Planned Parenthood of Nassau County Inc$1001n/a
The LAM Foundation$1001n/a
George Mason University Foundation Inc$10010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$10010%
Museum of Modern Art$9010%
Temple Hillel-Southside Jewish Center Inc$751n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$5010%
First Baptist Church Sullivan Indiana Inc$501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 116 recipients with no EIN on record ($295k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget High Five Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc: $329,250 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $220,059 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $195,875 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCity Parks Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSyracuse University: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Rising: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $21,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMorgan Pressel Foundation Inc: $17,200 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRaymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Immokalee Foundation Inc: $8,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Folk Art Museum: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Sports and Music Project Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPink Aid Inc: $6,415 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNicholas Center Ltd: $6,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSamuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation: $5,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPeter Michael Foundation: $5,625 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFund Texas Choice: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Old Westbury Inc: $3,750 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetThe Mount Sinai Hospital: $3,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAbortion Care Network: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Natal Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Tumor Foundation: $2,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Memorial University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterstitial Cystitis Association of America Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Women's Media Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $2,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStern Center for Language and Learning: $2,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Divided Sky Foundation Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlk Positive Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrooklyn Public Library: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoni & Jeff Rush Family Foundation: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Heron Foundation: $1,125 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDartmouth Dragon Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPalm Beach Dramaworks Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $845 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetParkinsons Unity Walk Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: $720 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharley's Fund Inc: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $625 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 118.

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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.

High Five Foundation IINY112.7× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: High Five Foundation II · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fjc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Express Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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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How do I get to High Five Foundation?

Find your warmest path to High Five 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 High Five Foundation

How much does High Five Foundation give?
High Five Foundation reported 116 grants totaling $395,645 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 85 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does High Five Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Religion (19%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are High Five Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc ($329k), Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc ($220k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($196k).
Does High Five Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does High Five 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 High Five Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include High Five Foundation II, Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is High Five Foundation based?
High Five Foundation is based in NY.

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 255 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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