New York · Private foundation
Ponce de Leon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $635k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Ponce de Leon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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 | 31 | $635k | 65% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $610k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $622k | 74% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $416k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $320k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $375k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $556k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $110k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 Neighborhood Self-Help by Older Persons Project Inc | $157,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Hope Program Inc | $105,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Daniel's Music Foundation | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Andromeda Community Initiative Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Part of the Solution | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Spanish Speaking Elderly Council - Raices Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| New York Women's Chamber of Commerce Inc | $76,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Per Scholas Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Family Life Academy Charter Schools | $71,300 | 4 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($527k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ponce de Leon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 84 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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · United Way of New York City · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · New York Women's Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Ponce de Leon Foundation
- How much does Ponce de Leon Foundation give?
- Ponce de Leon Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $635,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ponce de Leon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Youth Development (14%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Ponce de Leon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Neighborhood Self-Help by Older Persons Project Inc ($158k), The Hope Program Inc ($105k), Daniel's Music Foundation ($90k).
- Does Ponce de Leon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ponce de Leon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ponce de Leon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is Ponce de Leon Foundation based?
- Ponce de Leon Foundation is based in NY.
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