New York · Private foundation
Washington Square Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $275k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Washington Square Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 10 | $275k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $275k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $245k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $295k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $230k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $210k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hook Initiative | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Girls Incorporated of New York City | $150,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Global Kids Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| George Jackson Academy | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Queens Community House | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Search and Care Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Publicolor Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Forestdale Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Day One of New York Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hook Initiative | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Girls Incorporated of New York City | $150,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Global Kids Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| George Jackson Academy | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Queens Community House | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Search and Care Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Publicolor Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Forestdale Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Day One of New York Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Union Settlement Association Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Harlem Academy | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Latinas on the Verge of Excellence- Love Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($175k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Washington Square Fund 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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Amazin' Mets Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Washington Square Fund
- How much does Washington Square Fund give?
- Washington Square Fund reported 11 grants totaling $275,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Washington Square Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (46%), Human Services (25%), Housing & Shelter (18%).
- Who are Washington Square Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Red Hook Initiative ($150k), Girls Incorporated of New York City ($150k), Global Kids Inc ($150k).
- Does Washington Square Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Washington Square Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Washington Square Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation, Robin Hood Foundation.
- Where is Washington Square Fund based?
- Washington Square Fund is based in NY.
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