New York · Private foundation
National Grid Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2024
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 127
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations National Grid Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $467k 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 | 83 | $5.3M | 2% |
| FY2023 | 90 | $3.2M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 85 | $2.7M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 127 | $3.3M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 115 | $3.3M | 47% |
| FY2019 | 76 | $1.9M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 75 | $1.8M | 59% |
| FY2017 | 55 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc | $3,200,000 | 8 | 3% |
| United Way of Long Island | $2,310,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany | $2,305,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Campaign Against Hunger Inc | $605,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Brooklyn Public Library | $380,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School | $360,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Cec Stuyvesant Cove Inc | $255,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities of Staten Island Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Citizen Schools Inc | $245,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Molloy University | $234,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 137 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
National Grid Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 125 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Td Charitable Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation
How this is measured
About National Grid Foundation
- How much does National Grid Foundation give?
- National Grid Foundation reported 91 grants totaling $5,439,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 127 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does National Grid Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Education (21%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are National Grid Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($3.2M), United Way of Long Island ($2.3M), Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany ($2.3M).
- Does National Grid Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does National Grid Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Grid Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
- Where is National Grid Foundation based?
- National Grid Foundation is based in NY.
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