New York · Private foundation
Jean and Albert Nerken 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.
- $227k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $125
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $128,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 37
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $461k 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 | 39 | $227k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $523k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $484k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $456k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $181k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $249k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $147k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Actors' Fund of America | $690,871 | 4 | 1% |
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $126,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jacob Burns Film Center Inc | $61,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $47,750 | 2 | 0% |
| PTA of Ms 54 Inc | $21,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Visiting Nurse Service of New York | $19,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| United Service Organizations Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,200 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jean and Albert Nerken 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation
- How much does Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation give?
- Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $226,965 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Human Services (17%), Membership Benefit (15%).
- Who are Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Actors' Fund of America ($691k), Mount Sinai Health System Inc ($126k), Jacob Burns Film Center Inc ($62k).
- Does Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jean and Albert Nerken 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 Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation based?
- Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation is based in NY.
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