New York · Private foundation
Samuel H Kress Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 87
- Grants FY2025
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 87
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $96M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Samuel H Kress Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k 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 | 64 | $2.2M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 70 | $2.2M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $3.0M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 84 | $3.1M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $2.5M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | $1,541,520 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Advancement in Conservation | $1,337,500 | 5 | 15% |
| National Gallery of Art | $1,131,500 | 5 | 0% |
| American Academy in Rome | $781,238 | 5 | 2% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $331,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Renaissance Society of America Inc | $266,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Smarthistory Inc | $201,000 | 5 | 6% |
| University of Delaware | $183,275 | 5 | 0% |
| Council of Independent Colleges | $180,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $170,400 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 132 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Samuel H Kress Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 123 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 Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Terra Foundation for American Art · The New York Community Trust · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · Robert Lehman Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Ibm International Foundation · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
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About Samuel H Kress Foundation
- How much does Samuel H Kress Foundation give?
- Samuel H Kress Foundation reported 87 grants totaling $2,265,113 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 87 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Samuel H Kress Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Education (34%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Samuel H Kress Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: New York University ($1.5M), Foundation for Advancement in Conservation ($1.3M), National Gallery of Art ($1.1M).
- Does Samuel H Kress Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samuel H Kress Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Samuel H Kress Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The J Paul Getty Trust.
- Where is Samuel H Kress Foundation based?
- Samuel H Kress Foundation is based in NY.
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