New York · Private foundation
Sam Kolber Foundation Inc
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.
- $74k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $346k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Sam Kolber Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 20 | $72k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $55k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $61k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $66k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $50k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $5k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $10k | 69% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Alternatives for Children Inc | $22,000 | 7 | 0% |
| World Childhood Foundation Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Cornell University | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $10,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Nyu Langone Hospitals | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Discovery Space of Central Pennsylvania Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| X Prize Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Fresh Air Fund | $7,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Horace Mann School | $7,050 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sam Kolber Foundation Inc 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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sam Kolber Foundation Inc
- How much does Sam Kolber Foundation Inc give?
- Sam Kolber Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $74,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sam Kolber Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Education (13%), International (12%).
- Who are Sam Kolber Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: New Alternatives for Children Inc ($22k), World Childhood Foundation Inc ($18k), Cornell University ($12k).
- Does Sam Kolber Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sam Kolber Foundation Inc 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 Sam Kolber Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Sam Kolber Foundation Inc based?
- Sam Kolber Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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