New York · Private foundation
Kay Unger Family 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.
- $580k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,143
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $375,747
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Kay Unger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 43 | $580k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $608k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $337k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $383k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $576k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $498k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $444k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $410k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc | $1,044,465 | 6 | 2% |
| The New School | $975,967 | 8 | 0% |
| Larchmont Schools | $126,951 | 8 | 0% |
| New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc | $104,870 | 2 | 3% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $53,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $39,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Sheltering Arms Children and Family Services Inc | $30,149 | 4 | 0% |
| Asociacion Latina de Asistencia y Prevencion del Cancer de Mama | $30,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Cfda Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Promise Project Inc | $18,722 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 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 Kay Unger Family 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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Express Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Kay Unger Family Foundation
- How much does Kay Unger Family Foundation give?
- Kay Unger Family Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $580,344 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kay Unger Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Education (32%), Arts & Culture (27%).
- Who are Kay Unger Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc ($1.0M), The New School ($976k), Larchmont Schools ($127k).
- Does Kay Unger Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kay Unger Family 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 Kay Unger Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Kay Unger Family Foundation based?
- Kay Unger Family Foundation is based in NY.
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