New York · Private foundation
The Viniar 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.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 87
- Grants FY2025
- 78
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $587,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 53 to 78
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Viniar Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 | 84 | $2.4M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 78 | $2.6M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $2.2M | 49% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $3.0M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $3,920,250 | 5 | 4% |
| Garden of Dreams Foundation | $1,890,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Pony Power Therapies Inc | $1,740,500 | 3 | 31% |
| New York Shakespeare Festival | $460,700 | 4 | 0% |
| The Hamlin School | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| San Francisco Ballet Association | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Horace Mann School | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Museum Associates | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School | $52,588 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Viniar Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Manitou Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Garland and Brenda Reiter Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Viniar Family Foundation
- How much does The Viniar Family Foundation give?
- The Viniar Family Foundation reported 87 grants totaling $2,918,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 78 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Viniar Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (16%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Viniar Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Friends of the High Line Inc ($3.9M), Garden of Dreams Foundation ($1.9M), Pony Power Therapies Inc ($1.7M).
- Does The Viniar Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Viniar 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 Viniar Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is The Viniar Family Foundation based?
- The Viniar Family Foundation is based in NY.
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