New York · Private foundation
The Townsend Family Foundation
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.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 44
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $282k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Townsend Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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 | 43 | $4.4M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $2.6M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.9M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $782k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $3,141,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia | $1,415,400 | 2 | 2% |
| St Barnabas Episcopal Church | $1,091,210 | 4 | n/a |
| Grand Teton National Park Foundation | $558,850 | 4 | 1% |
| The Lord's Place Inc | $324,999 | 4 | 1% |
| United States Ski Team Foundation | $276,668 | 2 | 1% |
| West Palm Golf Community Trust Inc | $254,999 | 3 | 1% |
| The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc | $162,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Society of the Four Arts Inc | $61,750 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Townsend Family 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: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Robertson Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Royce Family Fund Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Wolverine Foundation · The Stanton Family Foundation · Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation · The Niner Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Townsend Family Foundation
- How much does The Townsend Family Foundation give?
- The Townsend Family Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $4,378,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 44 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Townsend Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Religion (7%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are The Townsend Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($3.1M), The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia ($1.4M), St Barnabas Episcopal Church ($1.1M).
- Does The Townsend Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Townsend 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 Townsend Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, Robertson Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is The Townsend Family Foundation based?
- The Townsend Family Foundation is based in NY.
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