Delaware · Private foundation
The Essex Avenue Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $28M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 77
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,895,108
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 64
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $616M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations The Essex Avenue Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M 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 | 69 | $27M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $23M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $17M | 89% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $5.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Escuela Comunitaria del Bronxbronx Community School Inc | $9,747,237 | 3 | 55% |
| The City and Country School Inc | $5,000,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Cornell University | $3,500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New York Foundling | $3,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women in Need Inc | $2,450,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Council on the Environment Inc | $2,150,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $1,916,461 | 3 | 4% |
| Billion Oyster Project Inc | $1,810,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Refed Inc | $1,700,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Ali Forney Center Inc | $1,600,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Essex Avenue Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Robin Hood Foundation · City Parks Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About The Essex Avenue Foundation
- How much does The Essex Avenue Foundation give?
- The Essex Avenue Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $27,752,688 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 64 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Essex Avenue Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Environment (24%), Housing & Shelter (18%).
- Who are The Essex Avenue Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Escuela Comunitaria del Bronxbronx Community School Inc ($9.7M), The City and Country School Inc ($5.0M), Cornell University ($3.5M).
- Does The Essex Avenue Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Essex Avenue 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 Essex Avenue Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc, Pinkerton Foundation.
- Where is The Essex Avenue Foundation based?
- The Essex Avenue Foundation is based in DE.
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