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Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$299k
Granted FY2019
30
Grants FY2019
30
Organizations funded FY2019
33%
First-time grantees FY2019
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82% of Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $299k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

21
’17
18
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15
’19
3
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$250
Largest grant, FY2019
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
30 to 46
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
8
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 33% of the organizations Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19
Arts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201930$299k33%
FY201833$342k15%
FY201746$160kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$484kArts & Culture$283kPhilanthropy$233kCommunity Improvement$50kHealth$32kRecreation & Sports$1kInternational$500Civil Rights$400Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
TN
DC
LA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($428k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetReach Out and Read Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOsage Nation Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $10,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Barnabas Medical Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Theatre Foundation Inc: $740 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics New York Inc: $605 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee to Protect Journalists Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Language Project Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $198 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Windward School: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolda Och Academy: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPolice Athletic League Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc

How much does Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc give?
Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $298,985 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (26%), Philanthropy (21%).
Who are Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Reach Out and Read Inc ($300k), Osage Nation Foundation ($50k), Literacy Inc ($20k).
Does Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Victor & Phyllis Grann Family 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 Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc based?
Victor & Phyllis Grann Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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