New York · Private foundation
The O'Grady Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $244k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 56
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations The O'Grady Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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 | 51 | $244k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $429k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $315k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $469k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $501k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $313k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Martin's University | $371,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Marymount Manhattan College | $228,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $162,444 | 6 | 0% |
| The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc | $136,700 | 6 | 1% |
| New Museum of Contemporary Art | $122,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Voteriders | $67,304 | 6 | 0% |
| River Valley Arts Collective Inc | $57,500 | 3 | 26% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $53,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Tfi Digital Archive | $45,000 | 2 | 6% |
| The Brigid Alliance Inc | $43,170 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($392k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The O'Grady Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 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 Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Ag Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · The Laurie M Tisch Foundation Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The O'Grady Foundation Inc
- How much does The O'Grady Foundation Inc give?
- The O'Grady Foundation Inc reported 51 grants totaling $244,259 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 56 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The O'Grady Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (61%), Education (27%), Civil Rights (4%).
- Who are The O'Grady Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Saint Martin's University ($371k), Marymount Manhattan College ($228k), Whitney Museum of American Art ($162k).
- Does The O'Grady Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The O'Grady Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The O'Grady Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc.
- Where is The O'Grady Foundation Inc based?
- The O'Grady Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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