New York · Private foundation
The Paul E Singer Foundation
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.
- $12M
- Granted FY2020
- 54
- Grants FY2020
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2020
Read this first · the figures below need context
81% of The Paul E Singer Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 45 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Paul E Singer Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 46 organizations, $12M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2020
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $1,250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 70
- FY2017 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 10
- Total assets, FY2020
- $172M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 24% of the organizations The Paul E Singer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 51 | $10M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $9.6M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $10M | 51% |
| FY2017 | 60 | $6.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $9,435,000 | 8 | 8% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $8,546,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $8,244,631 | 8 | 2% |
| Tamid Israel Investment Group Ltd | $3,862,654 | 8 | 27% |
| Afsnc Inc | $2,800,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Jewish Funders Network | $2,205,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Onward Israel USA Inc | $1,862,500 | 5 | 17% |
| Israel-America Academic Exchange | $1,675,000 | 6 | 25% |
| Itrek Inc | $1,636,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $1,250,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 143 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($36M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Paul E Singer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 125 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Koum Family Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Marcus Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Paul E Singer Foundation
- How much does The Paul E Singer Foundation give?
- The Paul E Singer Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $11,754,956 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
- What does The Paul E Singer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (90%), International (3%), Religion (2%).
- Who are The Paul E Singer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc ($9.4M), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($8.5M), Birthright Israel Foundation ($8.2M).
- Does The Paul E Singer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Paul E Singer 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 Paul E Singer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Paul E Singer Foundation based?
- The Paul E Singer Foundation is based in NY.
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