New York · Public charity
Sesame Workshop
SESAME WORKSHOP's mission is to help kids grow smarter, stronger and kinder. (see schedule o)
- $8.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,017,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,146,924
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $585M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sesame Workshop funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 4 | $3.2M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $8.9M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $23M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $23M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $16M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $10M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $4.9M | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee INC | $62,086,383 | 6 | 2% |
| New York University | $17,271,005 | 7 | 0% |
| Sesame Workshop International Inc | $9,568,344 | 7 | 100% |
| Wnet | $447,899 | 3 | 0% |
| Center for US Global Leadership | $320,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Concordia Summit Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 1% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The University of Georgia Foundation | $27,800 | 2 | 0% |
| The Wall Street Journal | $24,800 | 1 | n/a |
| American Museum of the Moving Image | $21,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee INC | $62,086,383 | 6 | 2% |
| New York University | $17,271,005 | 7 | 0% |
| Sesame Workshop International Inc | $9,568,344 | 7 | 100% |
| Wnet | $447,899 | 3 | 0% |
| Center for US Global Leadership | $320,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Concordia Summit Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 1% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The University of Georgia Foundation | $27,800 | 2 | 0% |
| The Wall Street Journal | $24,800 | 1 | n/a |
| American Museum of the Moving Image | $21,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New York Women in Communication | $18,500 | 3 | n/a |
| New York Cares Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Asia Society | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Media Group-American Ingenuity Award | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc | $8,258 | 1 | 1% |
| Free Art for Abused Children | $7,921 | 1 | n/a |
| Sugar Hill Children Museum | $7,571 | 1 | n/a |
| Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nywici Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Sesame Workshop supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sesame Workshop
- How much does Sesame Workshop give?
- Sesame Workshop reported 4 itemized grants totaling $3,204,724, out of $8,774,556 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sesame Workshop fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (80%), Education (15%), Health (4%).
- Who are Sesame Workshop's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: International Rescue Committee INC ($62M), New York University ($17M), Sesame Workshop International Inc ($9.6M).
- Does Sesame Workshop fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sesame Workshop?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Sesame Workshop based?
- Sesame Workshop is based in NY.
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