New York · Private foundation
Michael Gross Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Michael Gross Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 | 10 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $366k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $663k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $989k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $853k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $1,750,000 | 4 | 94% |
| Youth Renewal Fund | $555,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Kellogg FinNet Inc | $407,500 | 4 | 51% |
| First Descents | $375,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $225,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Big Green | $200,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Steer for Student Athletes Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Cornell University | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Emanuel | $32,350 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $1,750,000 | 4 | 94% |
| Youth Renewal Fund | $555,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Kellogg FinNet Inc | $407,500 | 4 | 51% |
| First Descents | $375,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $225,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Big Green | $200,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Steer for Student Athletes Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Cornell University | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Emanuel | $32,350 | 3 | n/a |
| New York Road Runners Inc | $26,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Mecox Bay Conservancy Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Voices of Hope Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Congregation Bnai Jeshurun | $6,285 | 1 | n/a |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Armory Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Michael Gross Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Michael Gross Family Foundation
- How much does Michael Gross Family Foundation give?
- Michael Gross Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,360,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Michael Gross Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (48%), Education (18%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Michael Gross Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: University of Michigan ($1.8M), Youth Renewal Fund ($555k), Kellogg FinNet Inc ($408k).
- Does Michael Gross Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael Gross Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Michael Gross Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Michael Gross Family Foundation based?
- Michael Gross Family Foundation is based in NY.
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