New Jersey · Private foundation
The Furst Foundation Inc
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.
- $7k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Furst Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 6 | $7k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $12k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $7k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $23k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $33k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramaz School | $21,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Congregation Ahavath Torah | $20,800 | 6 | n/a |
| Moriah School of Englewood | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Gesher Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel School | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| The Frisch School | $1,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Religious Zionist Youth Movement Bnei Akiva of the US and Canada Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshivat Heatid Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.
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: Fjc · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · M D Katz Foundation Inc · Cross River Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Furst Foundation Inc
- How much does The Furst Foundation Inc give?
- The Furst Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $7,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Furst Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Religion (39%), International (9%).
- Who are The Furst Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Ramaz School ($22k), Congregation Ahavath Torah ($21k), Moriah School of Englewood ($10k).
- Does The Furst Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Furst Foundation Inc 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 Furst Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fjc, Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is The Furst Foundation Inc based?
- The Furst Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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