New York · Private foundation
The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation
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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $254,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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 | 68 | $1.1M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $975k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $386k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $482k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $585k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $811k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $981k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Santa Fe Opera | $737,250 | 8 | 1% |
| Juilliard School | $525,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet Inc | $506,500 | 3 | 7% |
| Canadian Opera Company Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 98% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $184,361 | 3 | 0% |
| Beth Morrison Projects Inc | $155,000 | 6 | 2% |
| International Women's Health Coalition | $133,300 | 3 | 1% |
| St Ann's Warehouse Inc | $119,200 | 8 | 0% |
| The Carnegie Hall Corporation | $118,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Modern Opera Company | $105,000 | 6 | 7% |
Show all 99 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 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: The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · New Music USA Inc · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bill and Ann Ziff Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation with peer funders
About The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation
- How much does The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation give?
- The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $1,591,699 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), Education (12%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Santa Fe Opera ($737k), Juilliard School ($525k), American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet Inc ($507k).
- Does The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Howard and Sarah D Solomon 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 Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP, The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation based?
- The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation is based in NY.
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