New York · Private foundation
William & Sheila Konar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 100
- Grants FY2024
- 99
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 99
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $133M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations William & Sheila Konar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $597k 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 | 96 | $5.3M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 99 | $6.0M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $6.1M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 81 | $5.3M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 89 | $6.5M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 81 | $6.2M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 80 | $5.9M | 45% |
| FY2017 | 65 | $3.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $7,190,000 | 8 | 1% |
| University of Rochester | $2,910,654 | 8 | 0% |
| George Eastman Museum | $1,774,053 | 7 | 4% |
| Greater Rochester Enterprise Foundation Inc | $1,004,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nazareth University | $950,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Children's Agenda Inc | $778,184 | 8 | 16% |
| Common Ground Foundation Inc | $775,000 | 5 | 32% |
| Education Success Foundation Inc | $750,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $690,000 | 8 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William & Sheila Konar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 161 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation · Summers Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About William & Sheila Konar Foundation
- How much does William & Sheila Konar Foundation give?
- William & Sheila Konar Foundation reported 100 grants totaling $5,882,293 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 99 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does William & Sheila Konar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (26%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are William & Sheila Konar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($7.2M), University of Rochester ($2.9M), George Eastman Museum ($1.8M).
- Does William & Sheila Konar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William & Sheila Konar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William & Sheila Konar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Esl Charitable Foundation, Rochester Area Community Foundation.
- Where is William & Sheila Konar Foundation based?
- William & Sheila Konar Foundation is based in NY.
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