New York · Private foundation
Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $207k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 | 23 | $80k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $97k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $53k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $46k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $63k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $31k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $67k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $87k | 32% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $111,056 | 3 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $51,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $45,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $34,000 | 8 | 0% |
| St Baldrick's Foundation Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $19,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $15,275 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sharon & Lewis Korman 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: Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation
- How much does Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation give?
- Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $79,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (20%).
- Who are Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($111k), Cornell University ($60k), The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ($52k).
- Does Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc, The Connecticut Community Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation based?
- Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation is based in NY.
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