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The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc

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.

$25k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$396k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$25k30%
FY202316$23k38%
FY202214$18k36%
FY202111$11k36%
FY202011$14k55%
FY201813$15k31%
FY201713$11kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$37kEducation$24kAnimals$19kEnvironment$9kSocial Science$7kCrime & Legal$6kPublic Benefit$4kInternational$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
DC
MS
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave a Friend to Homeless Animals: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Philosophical Society: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Watershed Institute Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pushcart Prize Fellowship Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetBloomfield College of Montclair State University Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenturion Ministries Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRutgers University Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBard College: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe News Literacy Project Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMillsaps College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalmagundi Club: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Literary Project: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFlatbush Cats Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Poetry Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Friends and Foundation of the Princeton Public Library Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTabbys Place a Cat Sanctuary Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Theatre Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPennington First Aid Squad Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Mark Twain Memorial: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNarrative 4 Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoets and Writers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy for Animals Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorror Writers Association: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCity Kitties: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc

How much does The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc give?
The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Education (21%), Animals (16%).
Who are The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Save a Friend to Homeless Animals ($8k), American Philosophical Society ($8k), The Watershed Institute Inc ($7k).
Does The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc 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 Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc based?
The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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