California · Private foundation
The Eisner Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $10.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 140
- Grants FY2024
- 143
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $525,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 116 to 143
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $170M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Eisner Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 138 | $10.0M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 143 | $10M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 130 | $9.5M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 116 | $7.6M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 131 | $7.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denison University | $2,625,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $2,457,460 | 5 | 1% |
| Pediatric and Family Medical Center Dba Eisner Health | $1,730,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc | $1,695,001 | 4 | 6% |
| Onegeneration | $1,479,000 | 4 | 5% |
| The United Neighborhood Houses of New York Inc | $1,400,000 | 4 | 7% |
| The Center for Early Education | $1,130,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Reading Partners | $1,100,000 | 5 | 1% |
| St Lawrence University | $1,015,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $983,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 231 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Eisner Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · United Way Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
How this is measured
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About The Eisner Foundation Inc
- How much does The Eisner Foundation Inc give?
- The Eisner Foundation Inc reported 140 grants totaling $9,998,001 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 116 and 143 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Eisner Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Eisner Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Denison University ($2.6M), Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ($2.5M), Pediatric and Family Medical Center Dba Eisner Health ($1.7M).
- Does The Eisner Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Eisner Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Eisner Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Annenberg Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is The Eisner Foundation Inc based?
- The Eisner Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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