New York · Private foundation
The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $10M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 | 29 | $10M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $17M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $19M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $19M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $16M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $15M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $19M | 46% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $18M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Childrens Scholarship Fund | $27,964,900 | 8 | 17% |
| New Alternatives for Children Inc | $7,950,000 | 6 | 8% |
| African Leadership Foundation | $7,735,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Mary's Meals USA Inc | $7,350,000 | 4 | 18% |
| A Place Called Home | $6,126,910 | 5 | 24% |
| Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children | $5,588,541 | 6 | 21% |
| Crossover Mission Inc | $3,384,000 | 6 | 43% |
| United Friends of the Children | $3,200,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Shining Hope for Communities Inc | $3,190,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools | $2,838,640 | 3 | 8% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 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: Fjc · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Schooner Foundation · Robertson Foundation · Syde Hurdus Foundation Inc · Impact 100 of Indian River County · Jewish Communal Fund · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · David & Robin Ryan Family Foundation · Quail Valley Charities Inc
How this is measured
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About The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr
- How much does The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr give?
- The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr reported 29 grants totaling $10,222,211 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Human Services (18%), International (15%).
- Who are The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Childrens Scholarship Fund ($28M), New Alternatives for Children Inc ($8.0M), African Leadership Foundation ($7.7M).
- Does The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr 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 Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fjc, The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr based?
- The Theodore J Forstmann Charitable Tr is based in NY.
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