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Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc

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.

$43k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
31%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 13
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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
FY2025still arriving13$24k23%
FY202413$22k31%
FY20239$19k33%
FY202210$562k70%
FY20216$76k50%
FY202013$39kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$565kEducation$99kPhilanthropy$33kArts & Culture$19kHuman Services$16kRecreation & Sports$13kReligion$13kInternational$12kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Wilderness Society$15,00030%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$13,00050%
Central Synagogue$11,7506n/a
New York City Ballet Inc$11,09040%
The Taft School Corporation$10,00010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York$5,00010%
Share Inc$4,55031%
Art Start Inc$2,88030%
Food Bank for New York City$60010%
One Always Matters Inc$5001n/a
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All grantees of Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Wilderness Society$15,00030%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$13,00050%
Central Synagogue$11,7506n/a
New York City Ballet Inc$11,09040%
The Taft School Corporation$10,00010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York$5,00010%
Share Inc$4,55031%
Art Start Inc$2,88030%
Food Bank for New York City$60010%
One Always Matters Inc$5001n/a
International Rescue Committee INC$50010%
Playing on Air Inc$25010%
New York Public Radio$25010%

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($667k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Wilderness Society: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $11,090 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Taft School Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater New York: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShare Inc: $4,550 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetArt Start Inc: $2,880 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlaying on Air Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 11.

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About Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc

How much does Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc give?
Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $43,195 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (71%), Education (12%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Wilderness Society ($15k), Central Park Conservancy Inc ($13k), Central Synagogue ($12k).
Does Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc 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 Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc based?
Jim Fornari and Amy Gillenson Family Foundation Inc 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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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