New York · Private foundation
The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $322k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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 | 39 | $322k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $264k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $311k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $360k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $339k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $278k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $254k | 51% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $302k | 62% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| P E a C E Inc | $67,500 | 7 | 18% |
| Mercyworksincorporated | $65,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Volunteer Lawyers Project of Cny Inc | $61,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Center for Community Alternatives Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| David's Refuge Inc | $56,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Salmon River Fine Arts Center | $50,200 | 8 | 14% |
| Perform 4 Purpose Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 13% |
| CNY Arts Inc | $44,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Clear Path for Veterans Inc | $43,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Redhouse Arts Center Inc | $42,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($651k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc 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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of Central New York Inc · Richard S Shineman Foundation · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc
- How much does The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc give?
- The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc reported 39 grants totaling $321,775 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Human Services (19%), Education (13%).
- Who are The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: P E a C E Inc ($68k), Mercyworksincorporated ($65k), Volunteer Lawyers Project of Cny Inc ($61k).
- Does The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central New York Community Foundation Inc, Allyn Family Foundation Inc, The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation.
- Where is The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc based?
- The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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