New York · Private foundation
The Robert and Kate Niehaus 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.
- $6.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations The Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $6.3M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $6.6M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $6.6M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $6.2M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $5.2M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $4.2M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $3.3M | 26% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $2.6M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Success Academy Charter Schools Inc | $3,550,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Good Shepherd Services | $3,200,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Camfed USA Foundation | $2,550,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Don Bosco Cristo Rey Highschool of the Archdiocese of Washington Inc | $2,350,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Mercy University | $1,908,100 | 8 | 0% |
| De la Salle Academy | $1,600,000 | 7 | 6% |
| The Asia Society | $1,500,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Trey Whitfield School | $1,350,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $1,300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $1,300,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert and Kate Niehaus 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
Compare The Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation with peer funders
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About The Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation
- How much does The Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation give?
- The Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $6,263,975 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), International (18%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are The Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Success Academy Charter Schools Inc ($3.5M), Good Shepherd Services ($3.2M), Camfed USA Foundation ($2.5M).
- Does The Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robert and Kate Niehaus 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 Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is The Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation based?
- The Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation is based in NY.
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