New York · Private foundation
The Della Pietra 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.
- $5.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,155,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $67M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Della Pietra Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 | 11 | $5.3M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $5.6M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $4.1M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $6.3M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $5.7M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $4.2M | 54% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $3.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $12,821,776 | 6 | 0% |
| Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute | $6,303,468 | 7 | 6% |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $4,861,188 | 7 | 1% |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | $3,706,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Surgeon's Data Science Collective Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Pivot Works Inc | $1,450,627 | 7 | 4% |
| Children and Screens-Institute of Digital Media and Child Development Inc | $770,000 | 4 | 32% |
| Harbor Country Day School | $640,000 | 7 | 5% |
| World Science Foundation | $260,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Limroy Lane Community Charitable Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $12,821,776 | 6 | 0% |
| Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute | $6,303,468 | 7 | 6% |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $4,861,188 | 7 | 1% |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | $3,706,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Surgeon's Data Science Collective Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Pivot Works Inc | $1,450,627 | 7 | 4% |
| Children and Screens-Institute of Digital Media and Child Development Inc | $770,000 | 4 | 32% |
| Harbor Country Day School | $640,000 | 7 | 5% |
| World Science Foundation | $260,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Limroy Lane Community Charitable Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island Inc | $75,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Action Fund Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tamil Sangam New York Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 38% |
| American Near East Refugee Aid | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Science East Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| High Desert Keepers Organization | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Della Pietra Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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 Allen & Eve Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Della Pietra Foundation
- How much does The Della Pietra Foundation give?
- The Della Pietra Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $5,844,658 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Della Pietra Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Science & Tech (28%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are The Della Pietra Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Trustees of Princeton University ($13M), Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute ($6.3M), Stony Brook Foundation Inc ($4.9M).
- Does The Della Pietra Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Della Pietra 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 Della Pietra Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Allen & Eve Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Della Pietra Foundation based?
- The Della Pietra Foundation is based in NY.
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