New York · Private foundation
William S Paley Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $8.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,050,106
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $178M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations William S Paley Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 28 | $8.2M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $38M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $8.2M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $4.7M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $6.2M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $4.1M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $4.3M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $5.7M | 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 Paley Center for Media | $33,849,208 | 8 | 40% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $33,771,939 | 8 | 14% |
| The Greenpark Foundation Inc Co Odonoghue & Lamb Cpas Pllc | $6,641,032 | 8 | 100% |
| Jerusalem Foundation Inc | $1,533,000 | 8 | 5% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Reach Prep Inc | $250,000 | 7 | 5% |
| The Foundation for City College | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Oxford House Inc | $100,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Rockefeller University | $94,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William S Paley Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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.
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How this is measured
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About William S Paley Foundation Inc
- How much does William S Paley Foundation Inc give?
- William S Paley Foundation Inc reported 33 grants totaling $8,239,939 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does William S Paley Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), Environment (9%), International (2%).
- Who are William S Paley Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Paley Center for Media ($34M), Museum of Modern Art ($34M), The Greenpark Foundation Inc Co Odonoghue & Lamb Cpas Pllc ($6.6M).
- Does William S Paley Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William S Paley 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 William S Paley Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is William S Paley Foundation Inc based?
- William S Paley Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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