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The David and Susan Strauss 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.

$47k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$356k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations The David and Susan Strauss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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
FY2025still arriving23$45k65%
FY202418$28k28%
FY202317$21k29%
FY202219$27k37%
FY202115$14k40%
FY202014$22k43%
FY201920$34k55%
FY201817$20kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$71kHealth$69kReligion$33kArts & Culture$32kPhilanthropy$18kHuman Services$16kCivil Rights$10kYouth Development$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of The David and Susan Strauss Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Utah Film Center$10,00010%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$8,75080%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$7,50010%
Women of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program Inc$7,00030%
Morselife Foundation Inc$6,50020%
United Cerebral Palsy of New York City Inc$6,50050%
Institute for Bladder & Prostate$6,00026%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$5,32160%
Whitney Museum of American Art$4,63510%
Dysautonomia Foundation Inc Dba Familial Dysautonomia Foundation$4,50050%
High Point University$4,50020%
Harmony Project$4,00040%
American Cancer Society Inc$3,30030%
Aspen Jewish Center$3,20010%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$3,00030%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$2,50010%
Temple Har Shalom$2,3002n/a
Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County Inc$2,00020%
Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$1,80010%
Image Reborn Inc$1,50020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,30020%
Broward Performing Arts Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc$1,00010%
The Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation$1,0001n/a
Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation$1,00010%
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation$1,00010%
Boca Rio Foundation Inc$80020%
Northwell Health Foundation$5001n/a
Renewal Foundation Inc$50010%
Sarcoma Foundation of America$30010%
The Eileen Youtie Foundation Inc$2501n/a
American Heart Association Inc$17510%
National Kidney Foundation Inc$10010%
South Florida Pbs Inc$3210%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The David and Susan Strauss Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUtah Film Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $8,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMorselife Foundation Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy of New York City Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Bladder & Prostate: $6,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $5,321 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $4,635 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDysautonomia Foundation Inc Dba Familial Dysautonomia Foundation: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHigh Point University: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarmony Project: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Jewish Center: $3,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Tennis Centers Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImage Reborn Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBroward Performing Arts Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Sinai Medical Center Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Rio Foundation Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRenewal Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarcoma Foundation of America: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $32 over 1y, 0.0% 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 31.

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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.

Daniel L Nir & Jill E Braufman Family Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Daniel L Nir & Jill E Braufman Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 David and Susan Strauss Foundation

How much does The David and Susan Strauss Foundation give?
The David and Susan Strauss Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $46,789 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The David and Susan Strauss Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Health (25%), Religion (12%).
Who are The David and Susan Strauss Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Utah Film Center ($10k), Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc ($9k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($8k).
Does The David and Susan Strauss Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The David and Susan Strauss 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 David and Susan Strauss Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Daniel L Nir & Jill E Braufman Family Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The David and Susan Strauss Foundation based?
The David and Susan Strauss Foundation is based in FL.

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 75 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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