New York · Private foundation
The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc
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.
- $99k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $47,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 61
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $882k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 14 | $99k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $52k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $104k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $59k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $71k | 94% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $129k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Opera Foundation Inc | $79,000 | 3 | 26% |
| Grace Church School | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| French Institute - Alliance Francaise | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Browning School | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Group for the East End Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Milton Academy | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Church of St Ignatius Loyola | $13,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Georgetown University | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Dungannon Foundation Inc · The Wenden Foundation · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · Cranshaw Corporation · The Kestrel Foundation · Soros Fund Charitable Foundation · American Express Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc
- How much does The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc give?
- The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $98,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (31%), International (6%).
- Who are The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Opera Foundation Inc ($79k), Grace Church School ($31k), French Institute - Alliance Francaise ($28k).
- Does The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel 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 Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust, Dungannon Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc based?
- The Melinda & William J Vanden Heuvel Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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