Does The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) 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 Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity)?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, The Carl C Icahn Foundation.

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The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity)

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.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 14
Grants FY2024: 17
Organizations funded FY2023: 59%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $12,150
Largest grant, FY2024: $4,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 17; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $138M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 59% of the organizations The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	14	$4.4M	21%
FY2023	17	$489k	59%
FY2022	14	$947k	50%
FY2021	14	$339k	100%
FY2020	3	$3.1M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$4.3MPhilanthropy$2.7MEducation$717kHealth$643kPublic Safety & Disaster$350kEnvironment$250kYouth Development$175kRecreation & Sports$34kOther$0

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
Ipaw Inc	$4,250,000	2	100%
Robin Hood Foundation	$2,700,000	1	1%
Fordham Preparatory School	$300,500	4	n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City Inc	$175,000	1	5%
University of Miami	$100,000	1	0%
Academy of Mount Saint Ursula	$99,340	4	n/a
The Icahn Medical Research Foundation	$80,000	1	2%
Dominican Academy of the City of New York	$63,200	4	n/a
New York University	$50,000	1	0%
Rye Country Day School	$30,306	2	0%

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All grantees of The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ipaw Inc	$4,250,000	2	100%
Robin Hood Foundation	$2,700,000	1	1%
Fordham Preparatory School	$300,500	4	n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City Inc	$175,000	1	5%
University of Miami	$100,000	1	0%
Academy of Mount Saint Ursula	$99,340	4	n/a
The Icahn Medical Research Foundation	$80,000	1	2%
Dominican Academy of the City of New York	$63,200	4	n/a
New York University	$50,000	1	0%
Rye Country Day School	$30,306	2	0%
The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Partnership for Public Service Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Emma Willard School	$25,000	1	0%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc	$20,500	4	0%
Mt Tremper Outdoor Ministries Inc	$17,500	1	1%
St Catharine Academy	$16,000	2	n/a
Center for Educational Innovation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Fresh Air Fund	$10,000	3	0%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	$10,000	1	0%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research	$5,000	1	0%
Zoological Society of New Jersey Inc	$5,000	1	0%
The Taft School Corporation	$4,775	2	0%
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Retreat Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Maccabi USA Inc	$1,800	1	0%
Horse Farm Workers' Educational Assistance Fund Inc	$1,000	1	1%
New York School of Interior Design	$1,000	1	0%
Loyola School	$975	2	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Carl C Icahn Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving 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.

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About The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity)

How much does The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) give?: The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) reported 14 grants totaling $4,369,808 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (46%), Philanthropy (30%), Education (8%).
Who are The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity)'s largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ipaw Inc ($4.3M), Robin Hood Foundation ($2.7M), Fordham Preparatory School ($301k).
Does The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) 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 Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity)?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, The Carl C Icahn Foundation.
Where is The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) based?: The Carl C Icahn Foundation (Fka Fndtn for a Greater Opportunity) is based in FL.