New York · Public charity
Park Avenue Charitable Fund
To distribute funds to other exempt publicly supported charitable organizations.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2023
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Park Avenue Charitable Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 26 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Park Avenue Charitable Fund named its own grantees at scale: 40 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2023
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 13
- Total assets, FY2023
- $5.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Park Avenue Charitable Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 40 | $1.1M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $838k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $870k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $787k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $1.1M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $1.1M | 57% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $2.5M | n/a |
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 Baruch College Fund | $1,887,800 | 1 | 7% |
| American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc | $850,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $355,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Hurricane Island Outward Bound School | $340,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Green Chimneys Children's Service | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of Hebrew University Inc | $242,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Feeding Westchester Inc | $198,500 | 8 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $188,900 | 7 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $185,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Bucknell University | $180,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 142 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Park Avenue Charitable Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 116 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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Fjc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · Ag Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Altman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Park Avenue Charitable Fund
- How much does Park Avenue Charitable Fund give?
- Park Avenue Charitable Fund reported 42 itemized grants totaling $1,122,900, out of $1,281,771 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Park Avenue Charitable Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Philanthropy (10%), Health (10%).
- Who are Park Avenue Charitable Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Baruch College Fund ($1.9M), American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc ($850k), American Jewish Committee ($356k).
- Does Park Avenue Charitable Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Park Avenue Charitable Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Park Avenue Charitable Fund based?
- Park Avenue Charitable Fund is based in NY.
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