New York · Private foundation
The Drescher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,011,375
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,011,375
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Drescher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $2.9M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $355k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $350k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $208k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $222k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $63k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $42,254 | 2 | 0% |
| Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Easter Seals Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Social Service Agency | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meadowbrook Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bullis School | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $42,254 | 2 | 0% |
| Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Easter Seals Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Social Service Agency | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meadowbrook Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bullis School | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Band of Parents Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Midori Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Horton's Kids Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Drescher Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Drescher Foundation
- How much does The Drescher Foundation give?
- The Drescher Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,011,375 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Drescher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (83%), Health (9%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
- Who are The Drescher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chai Lifeline Inc ($42k), Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc ($30k), Johns Hopkins University ($25k).
- Does The Drescher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Drescher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Drescher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Drescher Foundation based?
- The Drescher Foundation is based in NY.
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