· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUBIA UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $7,500 |
| UR OUR HOPE (FOUNDATION) (RR UNDIAGNOSED) | $5,000 |
| AVENTURA TURNBERRY JEWISH CENTER (ATJC) | $3,180 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $2,000 |
| AFMDAAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $1,800 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS (FOUNDATION) | $1,250 |
| MORSELIFE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC (FD) | $1,000 |
| ADAPT COMMUNITY NETWORK | $1,000 |
| OHF-OXALOSIS & HYPEROZALURIA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| IBPR-INSTITUTE FOR BLADDER & PROSTATE RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| DOLPHIN CANCER CHALLENGE (SYLVESTER CANCER CENTER) | $1,000 |
| HARMONY PROJECT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +15%
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC5× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +49%
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC6× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- UFUTAH FILM CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +79%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +101%
- AATJCone grant, 2018 · $4k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Please see schedule o
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR BLADDER & PROSTATE ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Aspen Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGE REBORN INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The David and Susan Strauss Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David and Susan Strauss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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