How much does Strong Foundation of New York give?

Strong Foundation of New York reported 135 grants totaling $704,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 105 and 156 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Strong Foundation of New York fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (26%), Health (6%).

Who are Strong Foundation of New York's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Colgate University ($350k), Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc ($261k), Rye Country Day School ($185k).

Does Strong Foundation of New York fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Strong Foundation of New York 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 Strong Foundation of New York?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is Strong Foundation of New York based?

Strong Foundation of New York is based in NY.

Strong Foundation of New York

Strong Foundation of New York at a glance

· Private foundation

Strong Foundation of New York

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.

$705k

Granted FY2025still arriving

135

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.8MArts & Culture$1.4MHealth$320kEnvironment$237kHuman Services$152kReligion$136kFood & Nutrition$115kCivil Rights$98kOther$0

02FY2025 · 135 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k118 grants · $293k
$10k–50k14 grants · $262k
$50k–250k3 grants · $150k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$5.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BROOKLYN MUSEUM	$50,000
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER	$50,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY	$50,000
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY	$43,000
YALE UNIVERSITY	$26,000
RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND	$25,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	$25,000
PREP FOR PREP	$24,000
THE YDN FOUNDATION (YALE UNIVERSITY)	$20,000
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS	$20,000
ROCK CREEK CONSERVANCY	$15,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	$12,500
DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL	$11,000
POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER NETWORK	$10,000
JOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER AT YALE	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.2M · 217 repeat orgs$456k to everyone else

217 repeat relationships: 104 still active in FY2025, 113 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

217

169

Total granted

$4.2M

$340k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+21%

Still filing today

71%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CU
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
8× · 2018–2025 · $350k · revenue +56%
RC
RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
7× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +32%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
7× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +44%

Funded once

YU
YALE UNIVERSITY (40TH REUNION)
one grant, 2022 · $20k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $20k
YD
YALE DAILY NEWSYDN FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $20k

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.

04Its field

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.

New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

235 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 235 of the 422 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

233/235

Grantees still filing

159/235

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,469,750Other$1,656,245Arts & Culture$908,095Environment$142,500Human Services$131,650Health$108,000Civil Rights$90,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ35.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Joseph S & Diane H Steinberg 1992 Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Judy & Warren Tenney Foundation · The Cline Family Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Strong Foundation of New York funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Strong Foundation of New York. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

60report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

4rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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