New York · Private foundation
The Great 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.
- $91k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Great Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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 | 39 | $91k | 77% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $66k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $500k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $169k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $243k | 96% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiger Foundation | $700,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Reut USA | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| People's Theatre Project Inc | $40,500 | 4 | 3% |
| New York Law School | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc | $20,200 | 2 | 1% |
| Stanley M Isaacs Neighborhood Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Qsac Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Council on the Environment Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hoodies for the Homeless Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Food Bank for New York City | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Great 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.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The Great Foundation
- How much does The Great Foundation give?
- The Great Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $90,567 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Great Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (59%), Health (6%), Education (6%).
- Who are The Great Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tiger Foundation ($700k), Reut USA ($60k), People's Theatre Project Inc ($41k).
- Does The Great Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Great 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 Great Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Webster Bank Charitable Foundation, The Lazard Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Great Foundation based?
- The Great Foundation is based in NY.
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