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The Strauss Family 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.

$40k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$519k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations The Strauss Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$36k33%
FY20234$25k75%
FY20222$13k100%
FY20212$21k50%
FY20203$65k33%
FY20197$63k86%
FY20183$56k67%
FY20171$50kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$221kAnimals$43kArts & Culture$33kRecreation & Sports$21kPhilanthropy$16kReligion$5kInternational$2kHuman Services$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Strauss Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $220,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMuddy Paws Rescue: $42,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTrans-Mississippi Turf Scholarship: $15,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Golf Foundation: $5,250 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBonniebrook Historical Society: $5,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetAccessibility Accelerator Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMarion Downs Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBronxworks Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Strauss Family Foundation

How much does The Strauss Family Foundation give?
The Strauss Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $39,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Strauss Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (65%), Animals (12%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are The Strauss Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Eisenhower Medical Center ($220k), Muddy Paws Rescue ($43k), Trans-Mississippi Turf Scholarship ($15k).
Does The Strauss Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Strauss Family 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 Strauss Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Strauss Family Foundation based?
The Strauss Family Foundation is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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