New Jersey · Private foundation
Pasternak Family Foundation
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.
- $236k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $115,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Pasternak Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | $236k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $276k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $187k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $256k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $159k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $114k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $158k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $181k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Chabad Inc | $529,800 | 8 | n/a |
| Suny New Paltz Foundation Inc | $330,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Havayah Centre Inc | $93,300 | 7 | n/a |
| M-Ark Project Inc | $62,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Kabbalah Centre International Incorporated | $60,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Kehilat Romemu | $56,440 | 5 | n/a |
| Yjp of Hoboken and Jersey City Inc | $53,600 | 4 | n/a |
| Historical Society of Middletown & Wallkill | $50,000 | 2 | 69% |
| Catskill Revitalization Corporation | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Arts Inn Collective | $15,000 | 3 | 29% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($351k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pasternak Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc · Fjc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Pasternak Family Foundation
- How much does Pasternak Family Foundation give?
- Pasternak Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $235,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pasternak Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Pasternak Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Valley Chabad Inc ($530k), Suny New Paltz Foundation Inc ($330k), Havayah Centre Inc ($93k).
- Does Pasternak Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pasternak Family Foundation 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 Pasternak Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Pasternak Family Foundation based?
- Pasternak Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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