New York · Private foundation
Richard and Bette Saltzman 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.
- $395k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,737
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $890k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 21 | $395k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $520k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $512k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $359k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $305k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $352k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $355k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $434k | 27% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Have a Dream Foundation | $1,184,346 | 8 | 6% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $903,025 | 8 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $227,690 | 8 | 0% |
| Poly Prep Country Day School | $142,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc | $131,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Swarthmore College | $120,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $52,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $52,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $36,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc | $31,950 | 9 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($166k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Stonehouse Inc · Dmr Family Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Swartz Foundation Trust · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · Rockinghorse Trail Foundation · Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard
How this is measured
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About Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation
- How much does Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation give?
- Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $394,507 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Philanthropy (26%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: I Have a Dream Foundation ($1.2M), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($903k), American Jewish Committee ($228k).
- Does Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard and Bette Saltzman 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 Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation based?
- Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation is based in NY.
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