· Private foundation
The Eshe Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND OF THE ESHE FUND | $220,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $30,000 |
| BEDFORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| LEHMAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $3,500 |
| LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS | $2,000 |
| LONG WALK SOCIETY OF TRINITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $650 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $555 |
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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 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
Backed again, and grew
- BRBEDFORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $151k · revenue +2%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +58%
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR CITY OF NY OPEN HEARTS INITATIVEone grant, 2023 · $1k
- CPCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $600 · revenue +12%
- JAJOURNALISM AND WOMEN SYMPOSIUMone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -54%
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
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.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 BEDFORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds HERBERT H LEHMAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNALISM AND WOMEN SYMPOSIUM ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Eshe Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eshe Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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