New Jersey · Private foundation
Sy Syms 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.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,362,380
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,362,380
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 57
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Sy Syms Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k 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 | 1 | $2.4M | 100% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $2.2M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $3.2M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $3.4M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $3.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Public Radio Inc | $1,050,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wnet | $899,460 | 4 | 0% |
| Pen American Center Inc | $425,000 | 3 | 1% |
| American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | $405,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Barrow Neurological Foundation | $400,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Project Sunshine Inc | $240,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Women's E-News | $232,500 | 4 | 75% |
| American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc | $225,200 | 4 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sy Syms Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Ford Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sy Syms Foundation
- How much does Sy Syms Foundation give?
- Sy Syms Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $2,362,380 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 57 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Sy Syms Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Philanthropy (22%), Education (15%).
- Who are Sy Syms Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: National Public Radio Inc ($1.1M), Wnet ($899k), Pen American Center Inc ($425k).
- Does Sy Syms Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sy Syms Foundation 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 Sy Syms Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Sy Syms Foundation based?
- Sy Syms Foundation is based in NJ.
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