New York · Private foundation
Yaman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $138k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 86%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $285k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Yaman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 3 | $138k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $43k | 86% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $58k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $56k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $43k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $22k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $57k | 88% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $11k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cortland Memorial Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Cortland Repertory Theatre Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cortland County Council of Churches | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cortland County Historical Society Inc | $5,105 | 2 | 3% |
| Homer Little League Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 9% |
| St Marys School | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($318k), not named here.
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: JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Cortland Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Yaman Foundation
- How much does Yaman Foundation give?
- Yaman Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $137,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Yaman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (74%), Health (6%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are Yaman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cortland Memorial Foundation Inc ($45k), Cortland Repertory Theatre Inc ($25k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($20k).
- Does Yaman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yaman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Yaman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include JM McDonald Foundation Inc, Cortland Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Yaman Foundation based?
- Yaman Foundation is based in NY.
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