New York · Private foundation
October Mountain 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.
- $4.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations October Mountain Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k 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 | 54 | $4.8M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $2.3M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $2.1M | 63% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $2.2M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $500k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $336k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $1.4M | 43% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $691k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hawkins Project | $2,365,000 | 5 | 76% |
| The Brigid Alliance Inc | $1,800,000 | 6 | 65% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $1,129,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Symphony Space Inc | $1,118,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Austen Riggs Center Inc | $518,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Fistula Foundation | $490,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Care for the Homeless | $445,000 | 7 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $355,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chess-In-The-Schools Inc | $281,000 | 5 | 4% |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
October Mountain Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 97 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 Pixley Hill Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Hopewell Fund · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Shoval Foundation
How this is measured
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About October Mountain Foundation Inc
- How much does October Mountain Foundation Inc give?
- October Mountain Foundation Inc reported 55 grants totaling $4,879,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does October Mountain Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Human Services (15%), Health (13%).
- Who are October Mountain Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Hawkins Project ($2.4M), The Brigid Alliance Inc ($1.8M), The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($1.1M).
- Does October Mountain Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does October Mountain Foundation Inc 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 October Mountain Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pixley Hill Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is October Mountain Foundation Inc based?
- October Mountain Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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