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Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial 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.

$35k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 10
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$499k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Civil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving6$35k33%
FY202310$51k60%
FY20226$23k83%
FY20214$20kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$30kCivil Rights$25kHuman Services$24kFood & Nutrition$9kArts & Culture$9kScience & Tech$9kInternational$8kReligion$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington University$30,00020%
Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc$17,50030%
American Jewish Committee$12,50020%
Anti-Defamation League$12,00020%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$7,50020%
Food Bank for New York City$6,50020%
Little Essentials$6,00020%
Feel the Beat Corp$5,00021%
Island Harvest Ltd$2,50010%
The Ed Asner Family Center$2,50010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashington University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Essentials: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFeel the Beat Corp: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIsland Harvest Ltd: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ed Asner Family Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 10.

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About Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial Foundation

How much does Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial Foundation give?
Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $34,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Civil Rights (19%), Human Services (18%).
Who are Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Washington University ($30k), Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc ($18k), American Jewish Committee ($13k).
Does Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial 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.
Where is Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial Foundation based?
Jerome W Gratenstein Memorial 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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