New York · Private foundation
Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $470k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 19 | $415k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $430k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $415k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $470k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $510k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $480k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $500k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $475k | 55% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $330,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Compass to Care | $215,000 | 7 | 8% |
| American Friends of Neve Shalomwahat Al-Salam Inc | $211,500 | 9 | 5% |
| Amit Children Inc | $193,000 | 9 | 0% |
| America Needs You | $185,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Gift of Life Corporation | $125,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Emunah of America Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Gift of Life Marrow Registry Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alpine Learning Group Education Program Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| New York Common Pantry | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Max and Sunny Howard Memorial 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation with peer funders
About Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation
- How much does Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation give?
- Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $470,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Religion (21%), International (13%).
- Who are Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ($330k), Compass to Care ($215k), American Friends of Neve Shalomwahat Al-Salam Inc ($212k).
- Does Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation based?
- Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation is based in NY.
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