New York · Private foundation
Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr
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.
- $4.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 62
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 | 71 | $4.6M | 54% |
| FY2024 | 60 | $1.6M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.5M | 86% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $2.1M | 49% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $2.4M | 65% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Theatre in America Inc | $974,380 | 4 | 6% |
| Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc | $725,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Wnet | $625,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $550,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women in Need Inc | $550,000 | 2 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Big Life Foundation USA | $455,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| African Wildlife Foundation Inc | $365,875 | 3 | 1% |
| American Political Science Association | $254,500 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 113 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 110 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · J & Ar Foundation · The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn · Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Jct Foundation · Kazickas Family Foundation · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr
- How much does Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr give?
- Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr reported 71 grants totaling $4,626,455 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 62 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (14%), Arts & Culture (13%), Education (3%).
- Who are Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: National Theatre in America Inc ($974k), Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc ($725k), Wnet ($625k).
- Does Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr 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 Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation, Globalgiving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr based?
- Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr is based in NY.
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