· Private foundation
Martha Washington Straus-Harry H Straus 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $584k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HUNTINGTON DISEASE CENTER | $38,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY | $18,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $18,000 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| MONTEFIORE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $18,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $15,000 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY BRILOFF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
68 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $114k · revenue +50%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +12%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- COColl of Phy Surg Col-Huntington Disone grant, 2021 · $38k
- BCBoston College-Be a Beacon Campaignone grant, 2021 · $25k
- LFLusgarten Foundationone grant, 2021 · $19k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
How this is measured
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 107 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HALCYON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds TRAILBLAZER CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Martha Washington Straus-Harry H Straus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martha Washington Straus-Harry H Straus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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