New York · Private foundation
Saks Fifth Avenue 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 20
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $436k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 68% of the organizations Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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 | 17 | $1.1M | 71% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $1.2M | 68% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.5M | 70% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.1M | 60% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girls Inc | $750,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Bring Change 2 Mind | $700,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $700,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Inspiring Children Foundation | $350,000 | 3 | 20% |
| The Jed Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Panorama Global | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Emotional and Mental Health Collec | $90,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Apex for Youth Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Lower East Side Girls Club of New York Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Saks Fifth Avenue 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: Tides Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation
- How much does Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation give?
- Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,125,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Youth Development (32%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Girls Inc ($750k), Bring Change 2 Mind ($700k), Trevor Project Inc ($700k).
- Does Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saks Fifth Avenue 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 Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation based?
- Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation is based in NY.
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