New Jersey · Private foundation
Sussman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $235k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $404k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Sussman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 46 | $235k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $197k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $195k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $198k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $206k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $181k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $89k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $76k | 45% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christel House International Inc | $84,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Foundation for Morristown Medical Center | $68,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc | $67,500 | 5 | 0% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Northern Central and Southern New Jersey Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New York Historical Society | $36,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Centurion Ministries Inc | $32,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $32,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $28,243 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($552k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sussman Family 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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Sussman Family Foundation
- How much does Sussman Family Foundation give?
- Sussman Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $235,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sussman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Sussman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christel House International Inc ($85k), Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ($69k), Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc ($68k).
- Does Sussman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sussman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sussman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, Verizon Foundation.
- Where is Sussman Family Foundation based?
- Sussman Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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