Private foundation
The Underground Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $664,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 15
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $30M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Underground Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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 | 10 | $1.5M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $1.7M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $1.2M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Fund of Israel | $1,580,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chabad of Gramercy Park | $920,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Alliance for Decision Educationinc | $550,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Belev Echad Inc | $491,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
| No Left Turn in Education | $250,000 | 2 | 31% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Max Cure Foundation Inc | $86,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Ezrat Israel Inc | $55,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Bnei David Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Fund of Israel | $1,580,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chabad of Gramercy Park | $920,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Alliance for Decision Educationinc | $550,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Belev Echad Inc | $491,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
| No Left Turn in Education | $250,000 | 2 | 31% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Max Cure Foundation Inc | $86,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Ezrat Israel Inc | $55,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Bnei David Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Netanya Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 4% |
| One Israel Fund Ltd | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Worldwide Friends Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Committee for Lehosheet Yad | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Institute for the Advancement of Education in Jaffa Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Libi Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenwich House Inc | $2,750 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Alin Beit Noam Inc | $2,534 | 1 | 43% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $2,051 | 3 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($805k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Underground Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Underground Family Foundation
- How much does The Underground Family Foundation give?
- The Underground Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,515,513 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Underground Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (34%), Religion (18%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are The Underground Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Central Fund of Israel ($1.6M), Chabad of Gramercy Park ($920k), Alliance for Decision Educationinc ($550k).
- Does The Underground Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Underground Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Underground Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
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