New York · Private foundation
The Helen Gurley Brown 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.
- $9.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $149,335
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,510,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $96M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 | 23 | $9.2M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $7.0M | 53% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $16M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $6.5M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $16M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $12M | 71% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $14M | 92% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $6.3M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Stage Company | $15,244,395 | 7 | 43% |
| Cardinal Hayes High School | $9,020,862 | 6 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $7,020,646 | 4 | 0% |
| The Menninger Clinic | $6,536,154 | 2 | 10% |
| Ithaca College | $5,279,572 | 5 | 1% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $5,252,280 | 3 | 1% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $4,362,856 | 4 | 0% |
| The College of Saint Rose | $4,219,901 | 3 | 2% |
| Colby-Sawyer College | $4,190,135 | 6 | 2% |
| SchoolSeed Foundation | $2,847,487 | 4 | 26% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation
- How much does The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation give?
- The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $9,774,531 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Arts & Culture (25%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northern Stage Company ($15M), Cardinal Hayes High School ($9.0M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($7.0M).
- Does The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Helen Gurley Brown 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 Helen Gurley Brown Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation based?
- The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation is based in NY.
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