· Private foundation
Stephen and Carol Canter Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA | $15,000 |
| STREET SQUASH | $7,500 |
| SQUASH BRIDGE | $7,500 |
| ST JEAN BAPTISTE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| GLEN COVE BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| BUCKLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN | $5,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ASSIST | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BLBOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +27%
- SSSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $45k · revenue +37%
- T5THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TSTHE SEED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -8%
- WIWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TRTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +113%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The robert louis stevenson school's mission is to provide a college preparatory program for bright adolescents who have not reached their potential in more traditional school settings. the program provides every student individually…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
Brooklyn Free School's (BFS's) mission is education for social justice. Always advocating for young people's voices to be heard, BFS engages students and staff in democratic decision-making and problem solving. We honor student choice and…
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
The school's mission is to prepare students of high academic achievement to succeed. the school provides student instruction and activity programs.
We develop adventurers. (see schedule o)creative collaborators and intellectual risk takers who are inspired to think critically and seek answers. we create passionate communicators actively connected to their community and the world. we…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stephen and Carol Canter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen and Carol Canter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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