New Jersey · Private foundation
Van Essen 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.
- $121k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Van Essen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 22 | $116k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $94k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $112k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $133k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $127k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $110k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $110k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $116k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Folk Art Alliance Inc Dba Ifam | $50,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Santa Fe Preparatory School | $49,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Santa Fe Children's Museum Inc | $43,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Santa Fe Conservation Trust | $42,500 | 8 | 1% |
| St Michaels High School Foundation | $40,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Trinity University | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Think New Mexico | $38,000 | 8 | 1% |
| University of Redlands | $38,000 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Espanola Valley Humane Society | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($288k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Van Essen 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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Bolene Charitable Trust · The Abeles Foundation · Brindle Foundation · Lannan Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Feinberg Foundation · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute
How this is measured
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About Van Essen Family Foundation
- How much does Van Essen Family Foundation give?
- Van Essen Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $121,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Van Essen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Religion (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Van Essen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: International Folk Art Alliance Inc Dba Ifam ($50k), Santa Fe Preparatory School ($49k), Santa Fe Children's Museum Inc ($43k).
- Does Van Essen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Van Essen 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 Van Essen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, The Frost Foundation, Thornburg Foundation.
- Where is Van Essen Family Foundation based?
- Van Essen Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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