New York · Private foundation
Joy of Giving Something Inc
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.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $401,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 48
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $40M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Joy of Giving Something Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $703k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 50 | $2.7M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $4.2M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $2.0M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $2,356,195 | 2 | n/a |
| Light Work Visual Studies Inc | $480,000 | 4 | 35% |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | $360,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Parrish Art Museum Inc | $355,200 | 1 | 8% |
| International Center of Photography | $305,000 | 4 | 1% |
| New York Foundation for the Arts Inc | $255,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Fund for Public Schools Inc | $219,947 | 4 | 1% |
| The University of Florida Foundation Inc | $219,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum Associates | $199,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image | $180,000 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joy of Giving Something Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · United Way of New York City · The Ford Foundation · Expanded Schools Inc · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
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About Joy of Giving Something Inc
- How much does Joy of Giving Something Inc give?
- Joy of Giving Something Inc reported 50 grants totaling $2,731,254 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 48 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Joy of Giving Something Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Education (8%), Youth Development (3%).
- Who are Joy of Giving Something Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ($2.4M), Light Work Visual Studies Inc ($480k), The Studio Museum in Harlem ($360k).
- Does Joy of Giving Something Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joy of Giving Something 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joy of Giving Something Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc.
- Where is Joy of Giving Something Inc based?
- Joy of Giving Something Inc is based in NY.
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