New York · Private foundation
The Gilbert Mackay Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $526k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Gilbert Mackay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 17 | $65k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $76k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $60k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $41k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $41k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $21k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bronx Museum of the Arts | $39,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chestnut Hill Conservancy | $32,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Madoo Conservancy Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Literary Classics of the US Inc D/B/A Library of America | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Woodmere Art Museum | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women's Housing & Economic Development Corporation | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Friends of the Wissahickon Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bridgehampton Volunteer Fire Department | $8,500 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bronx Museum of the Arts | $39,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chestnut Hill Conservancy | $32,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Madoo Conservancy Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Literary Classics of the US Inc D/B/A Library of America | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Woodmere Art Museum | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women's Housing & Economic Development Corporation | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Friends of the Wissahickon Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bridgehampton Volunteer Fire Department | $8,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Hampton Library in Bridgehampton Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Bart J Ruggiere Adaptive Sports Center Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Weston Playhouse Theater | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wellness in the Schools Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Drawing Center Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| New York School of the Arts Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hispanic Society of America | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($157k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gilbert Mackay 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Gilbert Mackay Foundation
- How much does The Gilbert Mackay Foundation give?
- The Gilbert Mackay Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Gilbert Mackay Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Environment (15%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Gilbert Mackay Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Bronx Museum of the Arts ($39k), Chestnut Hill Conservancy ($32k), Madoo Conservancy Inc ($20k).
- Does The Gilbert Mackay Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gilbert Mackay Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gilbert Mackay Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Gilbert Mackay Foundation based?
- The Gilbert Mackay Foundation is based in NY.
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