New York · Private foundation
The Neel 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.
- $102k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 131
- Grants FY2025
- 118
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 91 to 129
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 27
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Neel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 122 | $102k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 118 | $100k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 129 | $95k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 111 | $92k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 109 | $109k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 125 | $104k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 91 | $85k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 118 | $98k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beads for Education Inc | $24,750 | 6 | 2% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $16,800 | 8 | 0% |
| Loudoun Hunger Relief Inc | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alliance Earth | $13,800 | 7 | 3% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $13,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Tomoka Christian Church | $13,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $12,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Spca of Westchester Inc | $11,300 | 8 | 0% |
| Briarcliff Congregational Church | $11,137 | 3 | n/a |
| Cloverdale Performing Arts Center Inc | $8,500 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 175 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 169 recipients with no EIN on record ($318k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Neel Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable
How this is measured
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About The Neel Foundation
- How much does The Neel Foundation give?
- The Neel Foundation reported 131 grants totaling $102,235 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 91 and 129 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Neel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (11%), International (10%), Animals (10%).
- Who are The Neel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beads for Education Inc ($25k), Compassion International Incorporated ($17k), Loudoun Hunger Relief Inc ($14k).
- Does The Neel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Neel 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 Neel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc, Davis Conservation Foundation, Ibm International Foundation.
- Where is The Neel Foundation based?
- The Neel Foundation is based in NY.
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