New York · Private foundation
The Abstraction Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $341k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 34
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $681k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations The Abstraction Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 7 | $341k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $107k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $591k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $238k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $187k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gatestone Institute | $662,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation | $70,000 | 3 | 2% |
| David Horowitz Freedom Center | $59,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Research - Eval - Promoting Org Respon & Transparency - Report - Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Middle East Forum | $46,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The American Islamic Forum for Democracy | $40,000 | 2 | 61% |
| Jcc Rockland Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Public Interest Legal Foundation | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Friends of Keshet Eilon Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($106k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Abstraction Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Henkes Foundation · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Searle Freedom Trust · The Randolph Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Abstraction Fund
- How much does The Abstraction Fund give?
- The Abstraction Fund reported 7 grants totaling $340,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Abstraction Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), International (18%), Civil Rights (7%).
- Who are The Abstraction Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Gatestone Institute ($662k), Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation ($70k), David Horowitz Freedom Center ($59k).
- Does The Abstraction Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Abstraction Fund 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 The Abstraction Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is The Abstraction Fund based?
- The Abstraction Fund is based in NY.
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