New York · Private foundation
The Volpert 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 54
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,555
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $317,550
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $566k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations The Volpert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $522k 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 | 40 | $906k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $780k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $1.5M | 75% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $1.1M | 72% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $296k | 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Tufts College | $988,652 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center | $397,875 | 1 | 7% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $370,033 | 4 | 0% |
| Riverdale Country School Inc | $227,727 | 2 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $214,300 | 2 | 0% |
| The Jewish Museum | $63,500 | 4 | 0% |
| New York University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nyu Langone Hospitals | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York Inc | $37,734 | 2 | 2% |
| Central Synagogue | $35,600 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Volpert 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Fjc · National Philanthropic Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The David Berg Foundation Inc · Daniel L Nir & Jill E Braufman Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About The Volpert Foundation
- How much does The Volpert Foundation give?
- The Volpert Foundation reported 54 itemized grants totaling $1,262,082, out of $1,474,847 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Volpert Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (10%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are The Volpert Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Trustees of Tufts College ($989k), American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center ($398k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($370k).
- Does The Volpert Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Volpert 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 Volpert Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is The Volpert Foundation based?
- The Volpert Foundation is based in NY.
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