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The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation

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.

$612k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$98,250
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 20
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$4.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthReligionEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$612k0%
FY20237$343k29%
FY202215$591k27%
FY202116$2.4M63%
FY202013$1.7M38%
FY201920$2.0Mn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.7MHealth$963kCommunity Improvement$885kEducation$776kEnvironment$71kReligion$68kInternational$13kHuman Services$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
VA
DE
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($176k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $3,775,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEndeavor Global Inc (F/K/A the Endeavor Initiative Inc): $884,850 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNyu Langone Hospitals: $710,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $230,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $157,005 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $62,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Canadian Centre for Architecture: $60,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetTrustees of Deerfield Academy: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hunter College Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the High Line Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVenezuelan American Endowment for the Arts Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Foreign Relations Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPeconic Land Trust Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBedford Playhouse Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStudentsponsor Partners Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Museum of Food and Drink: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Alternatives for Children Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Heritage Theatre Group: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Nick Loeb Foundation Inc: $2,480 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe New Group Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Arts and Design: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrees 78 Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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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 27.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation

How much does The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation give?
The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $612,442 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Health (13%), Community Improvement (12%).
Who are The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Museum of Modern Art ($3.8M), Endeavor Global Inc (F/K/A the Endeavor Initiative Inc) ($885k), Nyu Langone Hospitals ($710k).
Does The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr 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 The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation based?
The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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