New York · Private foundation
J & Ar 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $755,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 95
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $45M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations J & Ar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 23 | $1.7M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $1.7M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $61k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $1.9M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $2.0M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 95 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York Botanical Garden | $5,192,136 | 7 | 1% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $1,327,552 | 5 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $573,894 | 7 | 0% |
| Preservation League of New York State | $397,667 | 6 | 7% |
| The Asia Society | $350,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Inc | $182,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Four Freedoms Park Conservancy Inc | $163,500 | 5 | 8% |
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $151,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater | $125,063 | 4 | 0% |
| Tryall Fund Jamaica | $113,200 | 5 | 4% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($892k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget J & Ar Foundation 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 Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Jct Foundation · The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc · The Bernhill Fund
How this is measured
About J & Ar Foundation
- How much does J & Ar Foundation give?
- J & Ar Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,758,083 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 95 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does J & Ar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Arts & Culture (12%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
- Who are J & Ar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: New York Botanical Garden ($5.2M), Central Park Conservancy Inc ($1.3M), American Museum of Natural History ($574k).
- Does J & Ar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does J & Ar 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 J & Ar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc, The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is J & Ar Foundation based?
- J & Ar Foundation is based in NY.
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