New York · Private foundation
Math for America
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- $14M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 981
- Grants FY2025
- 942
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 977
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Math for America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 | 979 | $14M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 942 | $14M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 920 | $14M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 974 | $15M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 977 | $15M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $325k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $581k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $494k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fund for Public Schools Inc | $2,846,040 | 2 | 17% |
| Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation | $455,740 | 4 | 0% |
| Carnegie Institution of Washington | $439,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Montclair State University | $392,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Queens College Foundation Inc | $295,250 | 9 | 1% |
| Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute | $280,000 | 6 | 1% |
| University of Utah | $197,570 | 3 | n/a |
| National Museum of Mathematics | $196,469 | 7 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $134,564 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas State University Foundation | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1,600 recipients with no EIN on record ($72M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Math for America supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Simons Foundation Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Open Society Institute · American Express Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Math for America
- How much does Math for America give?
- Math for America reported 981 grants totaling $14,312,769 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 977 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Math for America fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (80%), Education (17%), Science & Tech (2%).
- Who are Math for America's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Fund for Public Schools Inc ($2.8M), Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation ($456k), Carnegie Institution of Washington ($439k).
- Does Math for America fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Math for America 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 Math for America?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Simons Foundation Inc, The Rockefeller Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is Math for America based?
- Math for America is based in NY.
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