New York · Private foundation
Jesselson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $274k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,550
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Jesselson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 8 | $236k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $89k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $66k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $5k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $806k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $295k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $546k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 Catalyst Foundation for Universal Education Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc | $184,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva University | $104,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Cteen Upper West Side Inc | $86,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad of Key Biscayne Inc | $72,259 | 5 | n/a |
| Museum of Arts and Design | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| M y Keren Hashluchim Inc | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy | $57,160 | 4 | n/a |
| The Center for Jewish History Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($716k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jesselson 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Anne and Natalio Fridman Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jay and Jean Schottenstein Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jesselson Foundation
- How much does Jesselson Foundation give?
- Jesselson Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $274,045 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Jesselson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (54%), Education (17%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Jesselson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Catalyst Foundation for Universal Education Inc ($250k), Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc ($184k), American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc ($125k).
- Does Jesselson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jesselson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jesselson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, Anne and Natalio Fridman Foundation.
- Where is Jesselson Foundation based?
- Jesselson Foundation is based in NY.
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