New York · Private foundation
The March Forth 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $63k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations The March Forth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $765k 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 | 25 | $1.5M | 68% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $845k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $118k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $410k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $340k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $350k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bard College | $1,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tectonic Theater Project Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Ali Forney Center Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Services and Advocacy for Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Elders Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Keshet Inc | $195,000 | 4 | 2% |
| American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The National Black Theatre Workshop | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Cinematic and Experimental Art | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Alin Beit Noam Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The March Forth 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 Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Fjc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The March Forth Foundation
- How much does The March Forth Foundation give?
- The March Forth Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,525,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The March Forth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (26%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are The March Forth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bard College ($1.0M), Tectonic Theater Project Inc ($300k), Ali Forney Center Inc ($250k).
- Does The March Forth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The March Forth 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 March Forth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc.
- Where is The March Forth Foundation based?
- The March Forth Foundation is based in NY.
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