New York · Private foundation
The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $219k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2025
- 87
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Greater Buffalo Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2025, the last year The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 44 organizations, $219k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 87
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 79 | $203k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 87 | $210k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $207k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 75 | $191k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $203k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 74 | $190k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 65 | $208k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $208k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Fine Arts Academy | $117,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $82,500 | 9 | 0% |
| MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger | $49,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wxxi Public Broadcasting Council | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rochester Museum & Science Center | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $39,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Day School Inc | $36,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Rochester Inc | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($748k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joseph and Anna Gartner 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 Baird Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Simple Gifts Fund · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc
How this is measured
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About The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation
- How much does The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation give?
- The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation reported 85 grants totaling $219,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 87 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Arts & Culture (23%), International (12%).
- Who are The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy ($118k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($83k), MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ($49k).
- Does The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joseph and Anna Gartner 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 Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Baird Foundation, Rochester Area Community Foundation, Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc.
- Where is The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation based?
- The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation is based in NY.
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