New Jersey · Private foundation
The Joelson 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.
- $487k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 74
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 102
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 95%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $406k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 128
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 95% of the organizations The Joelson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k 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 | 59 | $384k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 102 | $555k | 95% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $7k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $331k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 121 | $683k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 126 | $793k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 128 | $983k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York City Ballet Inc | $292,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Manhattan Theatre Club Inc | $275,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New York City Center Inc | $135,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Museum of the City of New York | $132,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hias Inc | $100,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Jewish Culture & Creativity | $90,600 | 4 | 5% |
| Lehigh University | $87,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Nantucket Atheneum Inc | $77,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Echoing Green Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $58,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 189 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 167 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joelson 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Altman Foundation · The Rudin Foundation Inc · Ira M Resnick Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Joelson Foundation
- How much does The Joelson Foundation give?
- The Joelson Foundation reported 74 itemized grants totaling $405,900, out of $486,735 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 128 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Joelson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (8%), Health (8%).
- Who are The Joelson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York City Ballet Inc ($292k), Manhattan Theatre Club Inc ($275k), New York City Center Inc ($135k).
- Does The Joelson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joelson 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 Joelson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is The Joelson Foundation based?
- The Joelson Foundation is based in NJ.
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