New York · Private foundation
Imperfect Family Foundation
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.
- $371k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 49
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Imperfect Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $579k 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 | 37 | $371k | 49% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.3M | 55% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $937k | 84% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $943k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $5.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $5,100,000 | 3 | 8% |
| New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc | $375,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Designing Justice Designing Spaces | $275,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Artistic Realization Technologies Inc | $245,000 | 5 | 79% |
| Studio in a School Association Inc | $225,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Parrish Art Museum Inc | $130,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sag Harbor Partnership Inc | $101,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Woodmere Art Museum | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Brooklyn Rail Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Imperfect Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 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: The New York Community Trust · Arison Arts Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Fine and Greenwald Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation · Robert Rauschenberg Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
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About Imperfect Family Foundation
- How much does Imperfect Family Foundation give?
- Imperfect Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $370,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Imperfect Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Arts & Culture (26%), Health (5%).
- Who are Imperfect Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Stony Brook Foundation Inc ($5.1M), New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc ($375k), Designing Justice Designing Spaces ($275k).
- Does Imperfect Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Imperfect Family 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 Imperfect Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Arison Arts Foundation, Ag Foundation.
- Where is Imperfect Family Foundation based?
- Imperfect Family Foundation is based in NY.
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