New York · Private foundation
Romenesa 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.
- $246k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Romenesa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 34 | $246k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $226k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $231k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $224k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $210k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $194k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $164k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $190k | 26% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gillen Brewer School | $203,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $160,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Riverdale Country School Inc | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Peconic Land Trust Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Parrish Art Museum Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Part of the Solution | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Franklin Academy | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Franklin Academy Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $48,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Storefront for Art and Architecture Inc | $41,300 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($497k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Romenesa 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Corner Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Romenesa Foundation
- How much does Romenesa Foundation give?
- Romenesa Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $246,437 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Romenesa Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (25%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Romenesa Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gillen Brewer School ($203k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($160k), Riverdale Country School Inc ($95k).
- Does Romenesa Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Romenesa 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 Romenesa Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Romenesa Foundation based?
- Romenesa Foundation is based in NY.
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