New Jersey · Private foundation
The Debs 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.
- $724k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 82
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $795k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Debs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $714k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $580k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $359k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $610k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $717k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $468k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 82 | $638k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 76 | $409k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York Historical Society | $1,075,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American University of Beirut | $650,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Carnegie Hall Corporation | $370,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Providence Public Library | $352,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Vassar College | $260,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | $225,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $97,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Feldenkrais Foundation Inc | $95,000 | 8 | 57% |
| Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Volcker Alliance Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($990k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Debs Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 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: The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Ag Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust
How this is measured
About The Debs Foundation
- How much does The Debs Foundation give?
- The Debs Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $724,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 82 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Debs Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Education (26%), International (11%).
- Who are The Debs Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York Historical Society ($1.1M), American University of Beirut ($650k), The Carnegie Hall Corporation ($370k).
- Does The Debs Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Debs 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 Debs Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- Where is The Debs Foundation based?
- The Debs Foundation is based in NJ.
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