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The Susan Isabel 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.

$657k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations The Susan Isabel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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
HealthPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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 arriving27$657k15%
FY202327$697k7%
FY202225$746k8%
FY202124$558k0%
FY20206$380k0%
FY201928$646k7%
FY201826$637k0%
FY201729$609kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.6MEducation$696kHealth$234kPublic Benefit$135kRecreation & Sports$90kHousing & Shelter$25kInternational$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
PA
NJ
UT
CO
MO
VA
TN
SC
DC
TX

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Spence School$510,00070%
National Dance Institute$173,00070%
Research to Prevent Blindness Inc$104,00022%
Numismatic Crime Information Center$80,0008n/a
German-American Scholarship Association Inc$75,000722%
St Bernard's School Inc$70,00070%
Society of Paper Money Collectors I Nc$55,000746%
New York City Ballet Inc$45,00070%
American Friends of Keshet Eilon Inc$40,00036%
American Numismatic Association$35,00070%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Susan Isabel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Spence School: $510,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNational Dance Institute: $173,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetResearch to Prevent Blindness Inc: $104,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGerman-American Scholarship Association Inc: $75,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetSt Bernard's School Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of Paper Money Collectors I Nc: $55,000 over 7y, 46% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Keshet Eilon Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetAmerican Numismatic Association: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater: $32,724 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Eye & Ear Infirmary: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Breakthrough Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Psychological Foundation: $17,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Sos: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Horticultural Society of New York: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Hill Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Alcoholics Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 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 25.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Susan Isabel Foundation

How much does The Susan Isabel Foundation give?
The Susan Isabel Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $657,403 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Susan Isabel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Crime & Legal (33%), Education (14%).
Who are The Susan Isabel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Spence School ($510k), National Dance Institute ($173k), Research to Prevent Blindness Inc ($104k).
Does The Susan Isabel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Susan Isabel 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 Susan Isabel Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Susan Isabel Foundation based?
The Susan Isabel Foundation is based in NY.

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 39 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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