New York · Private foundation
The Joel 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $619,450
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations The Joel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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 | 22 | $1.9M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $688k | 65% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $818k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $375k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $1.0M | 71% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $389k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $540k | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exploring the Arts Inc | $1,372,000 | 7 | 22% |
| Global Empowerment Mission Inc | $750,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music | $330,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Fund for Public Schools Inc | $280,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall | $280,000 | 2 | 23% |
| Community Cooperative Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Perlman Music Program Inc | $182,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Sesame Workshop | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Covenant School | $81,911 | 1 | n/a |
| The Everglades Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joel 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 New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About The Joel Foundation
- How much does The Joel Foundation give?
- The Joel Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $1,923,861 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Joel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), International (13%), Education (7%).
- Who are The Joel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Exploring the Arts Inc ($1.4M), Global Empowerment Mission Inc ($750k), The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music ($330k).
- Does The Joel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joel 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 Joel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Joel Foundation based?
- The Joel Foundation is based in NY.
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