Maryland · Private foundation
Strauss Foundation Incorporated
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.
- $77k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 109
- Grants FY2024
- 103
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Strauss Foundation Incorporated’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 52 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Strauss Foundation Incorporated named its own grantees at scale: 64 organizations, $77k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $34,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 104
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Strauss Foundation Incorporated funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 102 | $75k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 103 | $80k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 104 | $78k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 86 | $76k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $73k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chizuk Amuno Congregation | $23,436 | 5 | n/a |
| Beth Tfiloh Congregation | $11,191 | 4 | n/a |
| Lifebridge Health Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Adelante Latina Inc | $3,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $2,650 | 5 | 0% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| McDonogh School Incorporated | $2,400 | 5 | 0% |
| American Academy of Ophthalmology Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 97 recipients with no EIN on record ($290k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Strauss Foundation Incorporated 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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Donors Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Blum Family Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · The Dunn Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Strauss Foundation Incorporated
- How much does Strauss Foundation Incorporated give?
- Strauss Foundation Incorporated reported 109 grants totaling $77,406 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 104 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Strauss Foundation Incorporated fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (89%), Religion (2%), Education (2%).
- Who are Strauss Foundation Incorporated's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Chizuk Amuno Congregation ($23k), Beth Tfiloh Congregation ($11k), Lifebridge Health Inc ($8k).
- Does Strauss Foundation Incorporated fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Strauss Foundation Incorporated 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 Strauss Foundation Incorporated?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, Donors Trust Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Strauss Foundation Incorporated based?
- Strauss Foundation Incorporated is based in MD.
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