New York · Private foundation
The Harry Frank Guggenheim 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2024
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $22,197
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 152
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $74M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 70% of the organizations The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $782k 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 | 60 | $1.2M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $1.1M | 70% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $1.2M | 54% |
| FY2021 | 108 | $961k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 106 | $888k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 152 | $928k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 148 | $938k | 54% |
| FY2017 | 146 | $1.2M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge in America | $194,564 | 3 | 0% |
| Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation | $120,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Trustees of Clark University | $89,826 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $50,800 | 8 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington State University | $44,818 | 1 | n/a |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The St Pauls Schools Inc | $39,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Rutgers the State University | $37,761 | 1 | n/a |
| Council on Criminal Justice Inc | $34,041 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 182 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 309 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 156 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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Windham Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Page & Otto Marx Jr Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation with peer funders
About The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
- How much does The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation give?
- The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $1,199,290 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 152 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (20%), International (18%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cambridge in America ($195k), Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation ($120k), Trustees of Clark University ($90k).
- Does The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Harry Frank Guggenheim 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 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Vermont Community Foundation.
- Where is The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation based?
- The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is based in NY.
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