New York · Private foundation
The Vilcek Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $33,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 28
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $134M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations The Vilcek Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $584k 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 | 26 | $1.1M | 65% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $726k | 65% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $901k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $563k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $1.2M | 81% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $900k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii International Film Festival | $308,735 | 6 | 6% |
| New York Youth Symphony Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| President and Trustees of Bates College | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Immigrant Justice Corps Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kind Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Peter Jaffe Yeomans Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Soho Repertory Theatre Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $57,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Upwardly Global | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New York Foundation for the Arts Inc | $41,200 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Vilcek Foundation Inc 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 Ford Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Hispanic Federation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Vilcek Foundation Inc
- How much does The Vilcek Foundation Inc give?
- The Vilcek Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $1,078,085 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Vilcek Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Science & Tech (25%), Health (7%).
- Who are The Vilcek Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Hawaii International Film Festival ($309k), New York Youth Symphony Inc ($120k), President and Trustees of Bates College ($100k).
- Does The Vilcek Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Vilcek Foundation Inc 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 Vilcek Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Vilcek Foundation Inc based?
- The Vilcek Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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